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Niantic has announced a new mobile game called the NBA All-World. This allows fans to compete with other players in their neighborhood.
This game uses Jerolocation to allow players to find other players and challenge one-on-one multiplayer hoop games on their smartphones. This is another title that expands the genre of geoposition games that Niantic pioneered in Ingress and Pokemon Go. Niantic’s official was to create new geoposition games with well-known brands such as Harry Potter and Pikmin. We also license AR / geolocation platforms to indie developers through a platform called Lightship.
According to San Francisco-based Niantic, NBA All-World is the first game to place NBA fans in the “real world metaverse”, making computer animations real-world when viewed in augmented reality glasses and smartphones. Layer on top. .. The NBA All-World is currently in soft launch and is planned for global launch during the 2022-2023 NBA season.
In press briefing, Niantic’s senior producer Marcus Matthews said that “real-world metaverse” means that Niantic overlays a video gaming environment on top of a real-world map instead of creating a virtual world to explore. I said.
“And we want to use real-world objects and items, and real-world locations,” he said. “And you can convert them into video game objects to interact and play against.”
NBA All-World is an officially licensed geoposition basketball game that you can play for free. Players can find, challenge, play against, and hire teams for today’s NBA ballers in their neighborhood before they enter the virtual court.
“This is an evolution to the next generation of sports video games,” says Matthews. “This is where the NBA games and lifestyle meet the real-world Metaverse.”
For Niantic, the real-world Metaverse is an envelope that wraps around the real world and immerses you in the basketball world. “Or what I personally want to say is to turn the real world into a basketball theme park,” says Matthews.
At the NBA All-World, the real-world basketball court has effectively turned into a court where you can hit and compete with the best players in the league. You can navigate the map as you roam and look for drop zones with equipment that you can collect and use to customize your player. In the drop zone, you can get gear such as sneakers and accessories.
“The sporting goods store, just around the corner, is where you buy shoes with the latest brand names to customize your players,” Matthews said. “This game was built around how players play basketball naturally. Basketball is an outdoor sport. And what we are doing is bringing the basketball video gaming experience outdoors. That is. “
Explore shoes, jerseys, balls and accessories inspired by basketball culture. Players can also find, challenge, play against, and hire teams for today’s NBA ballers in their neighborhood before they hit the court.
“The thing that has never been done in a sports game is map-based play,” Matthews said. “So we’ll introduce new styles, new methods, new flavors to avoid them and allow us to watch sports games.”
You can enhance your offense, defense and fitness to power up your player’s stats. You can note that energy drinks keep energy high and low energy that makes scoring difficult. You can challenge players and build a reputation.
Use swipe gestures or taps to control the players in the game.
“We want this to be a very fast, easy and accessible gameplay system and have a short experience of playing in the real world,” Matthews said.
The idea is to get people to go to the court and then play a virtual basketball session between real games.
Matthews said he had to be in the actual court to play with others. But I admitted that many communities may not have a place in a convenient location. In that case, the actual park may replace the competition venue.
The company has a database of hundreds of thousands of courts around the world, and Niantic’s intention is to increase foot traffic in those places so that people can play more basketball in real life. Is to try. You can also fight someone at home if you have friends or siblings who can play in the same place using a feature called multiplayer nearby. But I can’t find the item drop like that.
“At the NBA, we’re always looking for new ways for fans to connect with the league,” Adrian O’Keefe, vice president of global partnerships at the NBA, said in a press conference. “And this partnership between NBA All-World and Niantic is really seen as a way to add exciting new games to our portfolio that will provide fans with a whole new experience in this AR real-world metaverse gameplay.”
“NBA-AllWorld gives NBA players the opportunity to get into Niantic’s real-world metaverse, paving the way for fans to interact with them in new ways,” said Think450’s Executive Vice President of Licensing. Josh Goodstadt says. In his statement, the NBA Players Association. “Niantic has proven its experience in building games that encourage participation in the local community and enhances its immersiveness by integrating players into the NBA All-World.”
In addition, NBA All-World incorporates NBA fashion and has the ability to equip in-game players with custom apparel, Matthews said.
Players can access this site and sign up to be notified when NBA All-World is available in their country.
“We want people to be able to use our game to start a real game of basketball,” Matthews said.
Glenn Chin, head of marketing for the game, said at a news conference that the game could appeal to basketball players or “sneaker heads” who have a connection to the sport. Games are a way to express your love for sports and connect with other players. The game provides an AR experience.
The game adds location-related facts, such as courts where NBA players grew up playing basketball. This is a cool feature that can inspire kids to become basketball stars.
Niantic CEO John Hanke is a basketball fan, and the high school basketball team he played won the Texas State Championship. The conversation began about five years before Pokemon Go’s debut, as the NBA focused on its popularity, O’Keefe said.
“It was clear where this could go,” O’Keefe said.
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