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Pok\u00e9mon Go “trainers” find Lexington campus a hotspot of activity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ve probably seen us on campus. Groups of people near the Glenn Building on Old Morrison lawn, hovered around the Kissing Tree, or at the entrance to the library, all staring at their phones, methodically tapping the screen. Sometimes we spill over into Gratz Park, standing on the other side of Third Street, facing campus, with people from the larger Lexington community. You may have wondered what we\u2019re doing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re playing Pok\u00e9mon Go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pok\u00e9mon Go is an augmented reality game played on smartphones and tablets that uses GPS technology. People who play the game are called \u201ctrainers,\u201d and we all have trainer names and avatars that represent us. Primary goals in the game are to catch creatures (i.e., pok\u00e9mon), battle in gyms to support your team members and kick out pok\u00e9mon from other teams, collect helpful items at pok\u00e9stops, conduct field research, and earn special pok\u00e9mon by doing raids at the gyms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

GPS mapping creates a version of the real world in the game, such that aspects of the game are incorporated into what looks sort of like Google Maps. For Transy\u2019s trainers, we see two versions of campus: the physical version as it exists in the \u201creal\u201d world, and the version in the game that has gyms, pok\u00e9stops, and pok\u00e9mon all over the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Transylvania University’s campus as it appears in Pok\u00e9mon Go. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

When Pok\u00e9mon Go first started, Transy was proud to host a gym and several pok\u00e9stops and students, faculty, and staff got into the game. Interest soon died out, however, both generally and at Transy. The company who owns the game, Niantic, then made a number of changes: the Kissing Tree became a gym, new pok\u00e9mon were added, trainers can have friends in the game, and raids are more interesting. Currently, interest in the game is perhaps at an all time high. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transy is now home to two gyms and nine pok\u00e9stops. One of the gyms on campus is a special gym, one of about 20 in Lexington, that, if engaged with often enough and with enough people, can give certain players unique access to a rare bonus Pok\u00e9mon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senior Ally Benz started the Transy\u2019s Trainers GroupMe that currently has more than 50 members and, as noted by several students, is likely one of the most active groups on campus. Membership is made up of students, faculty, and staff who play the game, and new people are added to the group regularly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The GroupMe has allowed us to communicate with each other about events in the game (e.g., raids) and helps us coordinate meeting to participate in the events. We also share game information, such as the locations of rare pok\u00e9mon that are on or near campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key aspects of playing Pok\u00e9mon Go require trainers to engage with others; playing alone won\u2019t yield a number of important benefits. Due to this, Transy\u2019s Trainers has become a community that has students from a wide variety of organizations, different backgrounds, different majors, introverts and extroverts. <\/p>Carole Barnsley and Avery Tompkins<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In addition, our group plays with members of the larger Lexington community who regularly show up for events at the gyms on campus. These meetups are often coordinated by relaying information through various other chat programs (e.g., Facebook Messenger and Discord), with community members willing to wait for students to get out of class, and students willing to wait for people to drive across town to get to Transy. In this way, the game has helped to create an informal partnership between Transy\u2019s Trainers and trainers in the surrounding areas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within Pok\u00e9mon Go, there are three possible teams to join when you sign up for the game, and these teams are at least theoretically competing with one another, which is another way to get more points and move ahead. At Transy, however, and this is somewhat true of the greater Lexington community, even though we belong to different teams, we often play together, even going so far as to help rival team members. We have what we like to call a friendly ecosystem of Pok\u00e9mon players in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019d\nlove to have you join us! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the authors: Carole Barnsley is an associate professor of religion. Avery Tompkins is a Diversity Scholar. Both are active “trainers” with Transy’s Pok\u00e9mon Go group.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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