Extraction from a Cell Phone Game
Two years ago, Thanksgiving 2015, my brother introduced my husband and me to a cell phone game called Ingress. He billed it as a great way to learn about landmarks and art around your location. Since he lived in Williamsburg, VA, we quickly discovered that we could easily locate plenty of portals to destroy the enemy and capture with our own resonators, and gained a couple of levels before the week was out. Once we were home in Northern Virginia, we discovered local portals and where the general lines of the Enlightened and the Resistance were. It became a competition between us to see who could level up first. My time as an artist in Occoquan helped me to gain more points and medals than my husband. After all, historic towns had the best places to “hack”. The pros of this game: · Something my husband and I could do together. · Exercise – getting us out and walking. · ...