No one expected that just when the whole world was crazy about "Pokemon go" (hereinafter referred to as "Pm go"), a domestic game "City Elf GO" that has been online for several months has quietly climbed to the top of the domestic App Store free list.

City Elf GO

After the official server of "Pm go" was restricted by the lock zone due to the excessive number of players, this sudden explosion of domestic mobile game "City Elf GO" also caused excessive server pressure due to the influx of new users. The number of servers has rapidly expanded by ten times within three days.

City Elf GO Server

So why did this game suddenly attract the attention of domestic players? It is obviously related to the rapid popularity of "Pm go". It is understood that many players accidentally discovered "City Elf GO" while searching for "Pm go". Due to the similar name suffix of the two games, many players with great imaginations will inevitably link the two together.

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On July 6, "Pm go" was first launched on the App Store/Google Play in New Zealand, Australia and other places, but China is not included in the first list of the game's first launch regions. A large number of domestic players who cannot enter the "Pm Go" experience can only settle for the second best and gathered in this domestic mobile game "distantly".

Introduction to City Elf GO

There are many people and the most famous ones. As a Chinese-made mobile game, "City Elf GO" will inevitably be compared with masterpieces. Judging from the description of the App Store, this LBS strong interactive game that focuses on real positioning and catching pets is not only the name is quite similar to "Pm go", but its gameplay characteristics also introduce the concept of symbiosis between the real world and virtual elves. It is very easy to be mistaken for the same series of products of "Pm go". But after entering the game experience, many players will find that this game is actually a purely original work. Apart from the similarity of the design ideas to "Pm go", the two works do not have much similarities.

City Elf GO Promotional Picture

However, digging deep into the creative process of "City Elves GO", these two games are not unrelated. In fact, the R&D team of "City Elf GO" is also a loyal player of Nintendo Games, and two of the main creators are very well-known "God" fans in Pokémon's Baidu Tieba. In order to create an original game that truly pays tribute to the classics, this project has been planned and produced since 2013, in terms of plot, style, gameplay concept, and game operationAll of them have conducted long-term discussions and projects, and the first test was only conducted in May 2015 in the past two years of development.

City Elf GO official Weibo

Perhaps this team did not expect that the popularity of "Pm go" also made their game popular. Although the LBS feature of the game is very different from the recently popular AR real-life technology, its real coordinate capture elves still attracts many players to join the game one after another. It should be said that the overnight popularity of "City Elf GO" is not so thanks to the focus effect of "Pm go", but rather to the concentrated explosion of player demand brought about by the long-term popularization and dissemination of augmented reality technology in China.

Finally summary: As a strong interactive game with LBS features, although the quality of this game has not been extremely excellent, it can ignite the enthusiasm of players in such a short time, which shows its strong attraction to players under the premise of this era. As an original work by an old Ren family fan, being able to achieve such results is indeed a rare and inspiring positive energy.