Ingress: Enlightened vs Resistance — How It All Began
Ingress is a game by Niantic Labs, which was part of Google (literally a couple of hours ago it was announced that Niantic Labs has left Google and become an independent company).
Niantic Labs now has “great new partners”, whose names haven’t been revealed yet, and plans to bring even more new players into the game.
Ingress was created back in 2012! (Many people still haven’t heard of it, even though it has been downloaded more than 12 million times.) So what makes Ingress so interesting and innovative?
Ingress is a multiplayer online augmented reality game. The game takes place in our familiar world, but through the game client we see an extra layer on top of it — energy, portals, resonators and so on.
The game really gets you moving!
You don’t sit still: you want to hack enemy portals, pull items out of them, then destroy their resonators, capture new portals and link them together. And for that you have to move around your city and your country! All of this happens in interesting public places — parks, museums, playgrounds, monuments. There are tons of portals; ordinary people can’t see them, but they exist in augmented reality.
The game has two opposing factions — the Enlightened (green) and the Resistance (blue). Gameplay is the same for both; what differs is their ideology.
Ingress turns the streets, buildings and monuments around you into the setting of a planet-wide game. The future of civilization is at stake. Time to choose your side.
While CERN was chasing the Higgs boson, a group of researchers in France discovered a mysterious new energy. Scientists don’t fully understand its power or nature, but its discoverers believe it can change the way we think. So we must control it before it controls us.
The Enlightened want to embrace this new power.
The Resistance, on the contrary, want to protect humanity from the threat.
A short guide to playing Ingress effectively:
Ingress — time to act!
P.S. My new Meizu M2 Note came in handy just in time 
