{"id":366,"date":"2022-06-30T20:07:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T20:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/pokemon-go-developer-niantic-is-rolling-out-its-campfire-social-network\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T20:07:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T20:07:41","slug":"pokemon-go-developer-niantic-is-rolling-out-its-campfire-social-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/pokemon-go-developer-niantic-is-rolling-out-its-campfire-social-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Go developer Niantic is rolling out its Campfire social network"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"p7I8qd\"><em>Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em> maker Niantic has made a social app for its games \u2014 and it&#8217;s coming out very soon.  The developer says that the app, called Campfire, will kick off its global rollout \u201cin the coming days.\u201d  Campfire was originally announced in May and has been in a testing phase with <em>ingress<\/em> players over the last few months.  The initial rollout will be available for \u201cselect groups of <em>Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em> players throughout the summer,\u201d according to the developer.<\/p>\n<p id=\"cfg2UA\">The core of Campfire is a map that includes information about nearby in-game events and activities, theoretically making it easier to find folks to play with or arrange meet-ups with friends.  The app includes a group and private messaging tool for your in-game friends;  for <em>Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em>, for instance, you can DM a raid location to a buddy to make it easier to get together.  You can also do things like add a \u201cflare\u201d to a location to encourage nearby players to come by if something interesting is happening.  Check out the screenshots below for a better idea of \u200b\u200bhow the app functions:<\/p>\n<div id=\"vb7GBQ\">\n<section class=\"c-image-gallery\" data-cid=\"apps\/image_gallery-1656613477_4994_3192\" data-cdata=\"{\" routing=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-image-gallery__body\">\n<p>\n      <button data-ui=\"grid\"><br \/>\n        <svg role=\"img\"><use xlink:href=\"#icon-grid\"\/><\/svg> <span>Grid View<\/span><br \/>\n      <\/button>\n    <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-image-gallery__viewer\" data-ui=\"viewer\">\n<div class=\"c-image-gallery__image\" data-ui=\"next-image\">\n        <img src=\"\" alt=\"\"\/>\n      <\/div>\n<p>      <button class=\"c-image-gallery__viewer-prev\" data-ui=\"prev-image\" aria-label=\"Previous image\"><br \/>\n        <svg role=\"img\"><use xlink:href=\"#icon-left\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n      <\/button><br \/>\n      <button class=\"c-image-gallery__viewer-next\" data-ui=\"next-image\" aria-label=\"Next image\"><br \/>\n        <svg role=\"img\"><use xlink:href=\"#icon-right\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n      <\/button>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"adNPai\">The idea of \u200b\u200ba Niantic-focused social network may seem superfluous with the glut of messaging apps already out there, but it makes some degree of sense given just how many games the company is working on.  In addition to <em>Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em> and <em>ingress<\/em>Niantic also has <em>Pikmin Bloom<\/em> in the wild, along with in-development games like virtual pet sim <em>peridot<\/em> and the just-announced basketball game <em>NBA All World<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"DNIHXE\">That said, the news comes just a day after the company canceled several projects \u2014 including the previously announced<em> Transformers: Heavy Metal<\/em> \u2014 while also laying off more than 80 staff.  This comes after high-profile projects like <em>Harry Potter: Wizards Unite<\/em> and <em>Catan: World Explorers<\/em> were shut down after less-than-stellar launches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pok\u00e9mon Go maker Niantic has made a social app for its games \u2014 and it&#8217;s coming out very soon. The developer says that the app, called Campfire, will kick off its global rollout \u201cin the coming days.\u201d Campfire was originally announced in May and has been in a testing phase with ingress players over the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/pokemon-go-developer-niantic-is-rolling-out-its-campfire-social-network\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pok\u00e9mon Go developer Niantic is rolling out its Campfire social network<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":820,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/niantics-campfire-social-ar-app-rolls-out-for-pokemon-go-players\/","url_meta":{"origin":366,"position":0},"title":"Niantic&#8217;s Campfire social AR app rolls out for &#8216;Pok\u00e9mon Go&#8217; players","date":"July 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"with Pok\u00e9mon Go, Niantic became the poster child for the power of mobile augmented reality (AR) apps. 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