Ingress in Victoria - Or Solomance walking around being a geek taking photos and listening to music

Don't know if this will be a continuing thing. But I had a good time so I thought I would write it up.

Ingress is an ARV area control game. To interact with things in the game you have to move to them.

https://www.ingress.com/

I picked up the game a few years back when I was living in Ontario. Played for a bit but eventually lost interest.

Something struck me this week, probably my new phone. So I installed again and checked it out. Grabbed a few points during my walk to work and on the way home. Noticed that they have a mission mechanic now where the community puts together runs through clusters of points.

I should have grabbed a before shot, but only thought of doing this write up while I was out walking around.

The cluster of blue points was the area I did today. My place is somewhere on the far right :P Not a marathon by any means.

What the mission looks like ( after I completed :P)

The soundtrack for this outing was a mix of Zweihänder whom we all know and Sonic Mayhem. Made for an excellent soundtrack to the experience.

Some shots along the way:

Nice outcroping to sit on and have a vape while working on some points. This is a shot towards Seattle (roughly)

A path in the park.

Further along the park. Big freighter.

View from a bench amidst many points. Another good vape spot.

Also a good spot to see someone flying their drone.


Pardon the crap quality, this was all taken with my phone.

Oh and the obligatory shot of myself on the way home flying the colors.

Cheers TS!

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Saw this game a long time ago, looked interesting but never got it. I'll have to look it up, cool pics though looks like a nice walk.

Damn good walk, already have a plan for tomorrow. The combination of gaming music and AR gaming makes for good time.

I have a friend that plays it. They keep trying to recruit me but I have resisted. Whenever I'm with them in a group walking around the city, they are always wondering off standing in weird spots tapping their screen. Where did they go? Oh, there they are... standing in the bushes over there capping a point. lol.

There is defiantly a threshold of nerd vs acting odd in public that one has to reconcile.

With most things...

Nerd wins and then you have fun.