Once players gather supplies like “Poke Balls” from spots, Jason showed off how to use them for capturing the actual Pokemon, like a winged creature named Pidgey floating across a smartphone screen. They mirror the spots built into an earlier game released by Niantic a few years ago called Ingress that used the same augmented reality structure. Pokestops and similar location-based features were chosen by the game’s developer, Niantic, Inc. (Photo by Phillip Manning, KNTA – Talkeetna) A low-level Rattata appears before the Talkeetna River, with Denali in the background. “Where we work there’s about five or six of them just in a small little area,” said aspiring Pokemaster Jason, who was in the downtown area on a recent evening with his girlfriend, trying to find Pokemon. But there are plenty outside of town, too.
Downtown Talkeetna, for example, has about ten “Pokestops,” areas where players gather supplies to use in the game, set up around parks, monuments, and buildings - including the KTNA radio station. “Pokemon Go” gets players off the couch by overlaying features from the game over the real world. So we checked in with reporters from across the Alaska Public Radio Network to find out what issues are being raised. This raises a few interesting questions about how Alaskans in totally different corners of the state, with totally different internet infrastructure, are dealing with the new technology. There’s a kid in everybody.”īut the game’s popularity hardly ends in Anchorage. “But in all reality, it goes back to the nostalgia thing. “Everybody’s got to be a man to do the job,” Carter said of airborne work. When asked, he denied there’s any contradiction between jumping out of a low-flying plane, and a videogame that basically turns you into a sci-fi animal catcher. (Photo by Rashah McChesney, KTOO)Ĭarter is in an airborne Army unit. A Magikarp ready for battle in Juneau, Alaska. Now, he and his wife, who recently gave birth, have been playing it on long walks. Carter is 23, and like a lot of people downloading the new game, he first got into Pokemon when he was a kid. “Almost everybody in my platoon has it,” said Private First Class Dylan Carter, standing outside the soldier’s chapel at Joint-Base Elmendorf-Richardson, phone in hand. And it has caught on in places one might not expect at first. The game draws on nostalgia for a craze that started almost two decades ago. In Anchorage, crowds of people float around parks and city streets at all hours, their eyes glued to their phones as they try to collect creatures. Since last week, the new “Pokemon Go” game has exploded in popularity, and Alaska is no exception. (Photo by Rashah McChesney, KTOO)įrom the Aleutian chain, to the Tongass National Forest, to the base of Denali, Alaska is filled with pocket monsters.
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