 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Burns, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event. We are a webinar, we're a webcast, we're an online show, the terminology is all over the place for these kind of things. But whatever you want to call us, we are here live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time. If you're unable to join us on Wednesday mornings, that's fine. We do record the show every week and there are posted to our website for you to watch at your convenience and I'll show you where exactly where that is at the end of today's show. So if you do see anything that you wanted to watch, you can always go there, share it with your friends, neighbors, colleagues, anybody who you think might be interested in any of our topics. We do a mixture of things here. Book reviews, mini training sessions, web tours, demos, basically anything library related we have on the show. We don't have a lot of, that's pretty much all our criteria. It's something that libraries are doing, something libraries might be interested in, sometimes something a little out of the box that you haven't heard about yet that you're wondering why it's on the show. But you know, trust us there's always something, you know, we always bring it back to somehow it can be used or related to libraries. We do have Nebraska Library Commission staff that sometimes do sessions about product services and programs we have here through the Commission, but we also bring in guest speakers and that is we have this more with us this morning. Liz Hittle who is from Scrivener Public Library right here in Nebraska is on the line with us. Good morning, Liz. Good morning. Good morning. And she's going to be telling us about, as you can see on the screen here, Pokemon Go and how you can use it, do things with it. I'll be broad and vague about it with your library. You may have heard about it possibly, probably that this is some new thing and you might know I be playing it. I myself do play. But you might not be sure what it is. And I saw Liz actually wrote an article for one of our library, regional library systems, the Three Rivers Library System, their newsletter. She wrote an article about it in there. And I thought, awesome, we can have somebody come on and tell everyone about a lot more about this. Get it to, you know, everybody out there who watched the show learning more about what Pokemon Go is and how you can use it at your library. So I will just hand it over to you, Liz, to take it away and tell us all about it. All right. Hey guys, Liz here. I had a whole thing where I was the one who wrote the article and Kristen must have liked it, but you already said that. Oh, sorry. No, you're fine. I want to apologize in a weird way. I've never done one of these before and I haven't made a slide show in almost ten years. So I apologize ahead of time. It'll be fine. I'm going to start with some basic Pokemon knowledge for you guys right away in case there's people who don't know anything about Pokemon. All right. Pokemon began as a simple hobby for a man named Satoshi Tajiri, who loved catching insects and tadpoles as a child. Wanting other children to experience the same wonders he had, he formed Game Freak with his friend Ken Sugimori. The game was originally called Capsule Monsters, but it got changed to Pocket Monsters because of copyright, which is important to Pokemon. Sugimori made the original artwork for the games. The project nearly drove Game Freak into bankruptcy, and Tajiri worked many unpaid hours. The first Pokemon games were Pokemon Red and Green on the Nintendo Game Boy. Pokemon Blue followed shortly after due to high sales, and then the Media Factory made a Pokemon trading card game with its own set of rules. There's 102 cards in this first set. I own lots and lots of these cards growing up, and I never knew how to play. Nobody I knew really did either. It was just so cool to collect and own them all, especially if you didn't have a Game Boy like I didn't. I've only just played the actual games for myself last year because you can get a Game Boy emulator app on your phone, which is pretty neat. If I can, I'll figure out how to get that, and maybe you guys would want to have that on your phone. And then in November 1996, the first Pokemon manga was made, which was mainly a gag manga starring Red and his Root Clefairy. The franchise grew so popular that an anime was made, premiering on April 1st, 1997. I was six years old at the time, but I remember getting up extra early just to watch the show, which I fell in love with immediately. The show was about a young trainer named Ash Ketchum, who was named Satoshi in Japan after the creator, and his Pikachu. And all original fans remember how much that little yellow mouse hated his trainer. But then Ash risked his own life to seek Pikachu's, and a deep friendship was born, and the rest is history. That's where I first saw Pokemon was on the cartoon. Yeah, it was on TV. I didn't know that his name was Satoshi in Japan. I thought that was pretty neat. Yeah, I like that. I could go on about all about Pokemon's beginnings and origins, but you guys are here to learn about Pokemon Go. I just want to give you some background phenomenon. A good website for more info is the one I have on the screen. Bulbapedia.bubblegarden.net slash wiki slash history of Pokemon. 2016 is the 20th anniversary of Pokemon, which is probably why Pokemon Go was released this summer. It was a good timing. In the first five days, Nintendo's market went up $9 billion. That's right. Nine zeros. It's funny though, because Nintendo didn't even make Pokemon Go. It was made by Niantic, who used Ingress' map markers as the basis for their own. Ingress is a phone game like Pokemon Go. I guess it's military-based kind of. I don't know. I haven't played it, but it looks really fun. Unfortunately, when Nintendo pointed that mistake out, their market went down a bit, but it's obviously not hurting them. Now I'm going to include stats that I couldn't have in the article because of Pokemon Go made $3.9 to $4.9 million on the very first day. Over 30 million people downloaded it, and it became more popular than Twitter and Tinder. It only took 13 hours for the app to overtake all the others. Over 26 countries have people playing, and at its start, 26 million people were playing it daily. The numbers have dropped quite a bit recently because of people jumping off the bandwagon and updates making the game a bit more challenging, but there's still quite a lot of people playing. I lost count of how many librarians had the app when I went to the youth retreat last month. I thought that was so cool. I was so happy and proud that so many of you were playing it. Now on to the mechanics. The Pokemon Go app uses your phone's GPS and camera and tracks you in real time so you can go out and explore the world as a Pokemon trainer. It ties in real landmarks, buildings, and bodies of water using the same system as Ingress into gameplay. Your whole area is laid out on your map and the historical artistic landmarks are made into Pokey Stops and like my library, Pokemon Gems. The goal is to walk around as much as possible to catch Pokemon, hatch eggs, and collect items. At the moment, the game does not offer trainer battles and there's only one generation of Pokemon available to catch. 140 something different Pokemon compared to 761 and they are making a new generation so there's gonna be even more Pokemon. I guess there's already 40 more. I don't even know how they're coming up with them now. If you've read my article, a bunch of this will sound familiar to you, but I had to cut a lot out for room so I'm gonna share those lost bits with you guys as I go. To start, players have to sign in with Google or join the Pokemon Trainer Club. Depending on your cell service, you might have to walk outside to kickstart the map in the game into working. After the professor is done with you, three Pokemon will appear. These are the classic starters, Charmander, Bulbasaur, and Squirtle, but did you know that if you refused to pick one and keep walking away, you'll have the chance to capture Pikachu as your starter? Isn't that cool? I wish I would have known that and I would have made that our first starter for the library. Yeah, I didn't know that until it was too late for me either. I picked... I think it is Squirtle as my first one, yeah. I did eventually catch a Pikachu though. Right here. Then the walking starts. There used to be a little bar with outlines of the Pokemon close to you on the app, but with the update they got rid of it, so you just got to wander around to find them, but this is my little Game Boy games where you just wander around in tall grass until you encounter a Pokemon. The player's phone will vibrate when a Pokemon is close by. Then all they had to do is keep walking towards it and their camera will turn on so they can view the Pokemon as if they're literally right there. It's funny that there's a... I have a Paris picture up there. That's not ours, but the first time we did it on her phone, because I can't get it on mine, she wanted us to at least experience it, which was bad because now I want to really, really play it and I should have just never done it. But first thing I did, I walked out to kickstart it. I caught Charmander, walked back in and there was a Paris sitting on our desk. It was pretty cool. All right, then it's time to catch the Pokemon by tossing the Pokeball into the green ring. Something I was rubbish at trying to catch Paris. It just started waving its arms and laughing at me, I think, because I was doing pretty bad at it. It takes some practice, but you'll get used to it. When caught, the Pokeball will shake three times and then sparkle. Boom, a new Pokemon. Get as many as you can, even if they're the same darn thing. You'll need them. All right, more mechanics and features. Poke stops are locations for players to get items and they're fresh every five minutes. So if your library is a Poke stop and people are just chilling on their phones, it's because they're farming for items, eggs, and Pokeballs. Pokemon gyms can only be accessed after the player has reached level five and then they will be prompted to choose a team. Yellow for instinct, blue for mystic, and red for valor. There are now gym leaders for each of the teams. Spark, Blanche, and Candela. Candela is the fierce one. Blanche is the smart one and Spark is the silly one. There's lots of funny memes and comics. I would have spent probably a good 10 minutes on them alone, so I just have this one picture of them, but they're really funny. Spark is so funny. It made me want to switch to instinct, but I'm team mystic. Yeah, we're mystic too, yeah. I feel like that's a good team for librarians, because it's all about knowledge. Yeah, I think that's why I went to it more, yeah, as well. I had that because they do explain what they are, so you could find out more about them before you make your decision, yeah. Gyms are controlled by one team at a time. If it's your team, you can train and register your Pokemon there. If it's controlled by another team, you can battle against the leader and try to take the gym over. Each gym has two numbers, the prestige and the level. The level shows how strong the gym's Pokemon is and how strong you have to be to fight it, and the prestige is like the gym's health points. The higher the number, the longer the gym will be under control of the reigning team. If you challenge teammates to battles and win while it's under your team, you raise the prestige. More prestige, more defenders for the gym. To battle, you have to tap your screen as fast as you can to unleash your normal attack. For a power move, you have to tap and hold longer before releasing, but make sure not to miss, or you just might take a lot of damage to do none yourself. You can also try and dodge using a swipe on the display. It usually comes down to who unleashes the most attacks and who has the highest CP. You'll get used to it. Speaking of getting used to it, people who've never exercised before are now getting plenty of it because of the game. Players are losing weight and becoming more active, and people are also socializing way more than they ever did, bonding with total strangers over the game. You notice this picture on the right. We've got young people, old people. I had a picture earlier where there was a pregnant lady with her baby. People are making all new friends. Individuals have shared how it's majorly helping them with their anxiety and depression, and I read one account where a man who was afraid to leave his own home for over five years finally left because of Pokemon Go. He was able to leave his yarn. The game also helps teach the metric system since it uses kilometers instead of miles. You have to walk two, five, or ten kilometers to hatch eggs. So many people were playing that the servers kept going down, as I'm sure you all know or at least heard someone grumble about. They've been working on it so that happens less though. Pokemon Go has business booming for thousands of people and businesses. You can get paid to drive people around while they're playing a Pokemon chauffeur. Businesses have set up sales and pitches based on the game and even set out lures to attract more Pokemon to the location, which in turn attracts more customers. Even though the hype has kind of gone away, I still see people advertising with Pokemon. It makes my geeky little heart happy. My library has put up signs and to let patrons know and signs welcoming people to come in and catch Pokemon. Like right here in the middle, this library took all their Pokemon stuff and bought some new Pokemon stuff and made a display, made Pokemon clubs. I want to do the thing where it's like this gym is controlled by this team and then you put up or you can make when we get our new library, I want to do this table where you can have water, snacks, good stuff for them to have while they're walking around. But I found a lot of borrow ones, which I thought was pretty funny considering it's a kids game. But plenty of adults playing it and people setting up stands and helping people out, which I thought was really great and cute. And I want to do the what did you catch at your library? You put up a sign and people write down what they've been catching and everything. Or the there's a Pokemon scavenger hunt, like you can print out cutouts of the Pokemon and hang them all over the place and be like, they're at this place, they're at this place. That's what I want to do. There's lots and lots of ideas to do. I like the one that this Poke Step gives out free library cards. Yeah, I thought that was adorable. I really I really wanted to do that. This is our library. Okay, I like the one on the previous slide that had the silhouettes of them. It says the bottom there, return your full sheet to the summer reading club desk. So they combined because it came out this summer, which was perfect timing. They connected it to their summer reading program. It looks like that. Yeah, that would have I wish we would have done more with it. But it's actually like these are our signs we put up right when the craze started happening. And it's the same day that Anika called me and asked me to write the article. And I was my boss started printing out all these signs. She's like, find places to hang them lives. And I was like, Oh, my gosh. But that thing is there really isn't that many people playing it in my town, which is really sad. We were supposed to do like I can't have it on my phone because I have straight talk and straight talk status terrible. And I wouldn't have space and all that. So my boss Angie put it on her phone so we could experience it. And we're supposed to, you know, go on walks with the kids and do a whole thing. But there's only there's only one kid who's still playing it. And his stuff is messing up. We're trying to fix it for him. Otherwise, there aren't very many people playing it at all, which just makes me sad because it would be fun to do a lot more. Yeah, let's see if you can connect it to like one of those previous pictures I saw, they had obviously the the books that they, you know, connect it to reading the Yeah, that have been written about front based on it. And if you had the TV show on DVD or something, you know, different things, you can connect to it. Yeah. And it is if your device can do it or not, I know my phone cannot do it because it's a Samsung. It's a Galaxy S3. It's too old. Yeah. So I had but I told that I have a tablet, a new Tab 4, I think it is, and it was able to do that. So I jumped up to just a slightly bigger device. You can do it on tablets and iPads and things as well. If your phones are not the ones that are capable of it. Yeah. Yeah, it's it sucks when it doesn't go on all of them. But, you know, you do your best. Yeah. There's plenty of ideas out there. I should have included way more. But I was trying to get it all together. Not all businesses are happy about this and post science telling people to go somewhere else or that you have to buy something to come in and catch Pokemon. I saw one that said, Pokemon are for customers only, which I just I was really rude. Unfortunately, official buildings like churches and hospitals have had to warn players not to come in and disturb those in sign. Some of these buildings, like I've seen churches, they're trying to get more members by saying, hey, come on in and catch Pokemon. Some buildings are going with the flow and welcoming players, but it's always best to ask before waltzing in. Of course, and especially I think about everything. Also, but going into someone's not just like there we go trespassing into people's areas. It was getting pretty, there was a point where it was getting pretty bad. Even though there's a scream, which is the one on the far left, right when you start the app telling you to please be aware of your surroundings, people were just not paying attention. They were walking into dangerous areas and falling. They walked into streets and to other people, so on. People are also trying to play it while driving when they shouldn't even be messing with their phones at all and causing accidents. If I would have known how to do videos, I found a video of somebody running into a cop car because they were playing Pokemon Go while driving, which is just terrible. Luckily, one of the updates is a screen that comes up to tell you that you're going too fast and that Pokemon Go is to be played while walking. I will stop you from if you're going to say, yeah, I get it on mine. It will stop and block you from being able to play and it looks like I'm a passenger. Exactly. There's people who get it when they're walking. Apparently, they're walking too fast or something. I thought that was funny. But I hope it's at least helping with the driving problem. I haven't heard much else about it, but there's always those people who will use their phones while driving no matter what, which is sad. You see on the bottom, a teenager was walking around playing and found a dead body. Players are being ambushed and mugged. It's always good to play with a partner or a group, especially if you're out at night. Always have someone with you. The list goes on. Because of this, people actively demean the game and it's players or they're just being rude and trying to spoil everyone's fun in general. Anytime there's a big popular thing, there's always people sitting there trying to harsh everybody's mellow about it. You just gotta ignore those people and have fun and pay attention. Be sure to tell your patrons that they can sign up for charity miles, a nonprofit organization whose app runs in the background while you're playing. Every mile you walk or run earns the charity of your choice a quarter. Every mile biked is 10 cents. There's over 30 charities on the app to donate to already. There's also Wolf Tracks which tracks your walks and donates to a rescue of your choice in exchange for your time. Many animal shelters are offering for people to walk dogs and other animals while they play. And since people like to take pictures of everything, the pictures of the animals they're walking has led to a huge boost in adoptions with some of the players deciding to just keep the animal they're walking. There are even shelters that are having to borrow animals from other shelters because of all their animals have been adopted all thanks to the publicity of Pokemon Go. That's awesome. I've heard about those that walk the dog come walk our dogs and take them out. Yeah. I wish I was just closer to you. Unfortunately like I said I can't play myself. My director put it on her phone a while back so we could all play and that fell through a little bit but I think we're going to start I want to start trying to organize events around it especially now that summer reading's over. There'll be more kids wanting to play it because there's less to do. At least I hope otherwise I'll have like one or two kids playing but you know one or two is better than none. But it's been a while since I played it because there's only the one kid playing it and but I would have never played it at all. I guess I wouldn't mind but now that I've played it I'm like I want to play. Um you can always search and stuff. I mean as new updates come out like you said they're I think when they start adding more Pokemon. Oh yeah. Other generations that that will bring back people because if people have as it says they're catch caught all of them you kind of wonder okay what do I do now that I got them all. Yeah there's a battling in the gyms and stuff if you're to that if you're doing that but once they add more that'll be another bump back into I think people being trying to check it out again. Yep that's that's I'm going to say uh all in all I think Pokemon Go is one of the few great things to happen in 2016 and we sorely needed it because we know how bad 2016's been. Um it's too bad it's not as popular as it was but like Krista said maybe that will change with future updates and more Pokemon to catch. I know they're working on it and I know that a big thing everyone wants is trainer battles where you can verse each other. I don't know how they're going to set that up though if they'll be truer to the Game Boy games where if you lose you lose half your money and uh you don't lose Pokemon. I would hope they don't do that because that would be if you're not particularly good at it you'll end up with no Pokemon. Yeah but hopefully that'll change and more people will start playing it again. I haven't seen any of them release anything recently but I hope they're working on it especially because like you can see in this this picture I have up now there's mega farms and more legendaries and almost 800 Pokemon. I think there's gonna be over 800 when um Sun and Moon come out this fall so wow yeah. It might be yeah I would hope that they would update and add at least the second generation because that's another hundred something Pokemon to catch. I know we've got I've gotten more interested in it when traveling to new places um yeah get worn not I wouldn't say bored but just go in the same places here in Lincoln um we know certain parks in the weirdly the cemeteries have lots and lots of stops in Pokemon and you go there a bunch and then I was like well you know I'll kind of worn out from that and then I traveled to New York the last week and we were like oh I want to know yeah I was like oh I wonder what kinds they have here so I well I didn't have a lot of time but um we did get more into it walking around the parks there trying to find certain ones um so it does give a resurgence when you travel somewhere new as well that you're you suddenly think because it is if you keep track what people are talking about it friends and what they'll say oh there's tons of these particular one in my town and you're like I've never even seen one before uh that's crazy and then you they do um spawn as they say it in in different locations so sometimes some will be more popular in one city and then there's in another city um they're all supposed to be eventually everywhere reason you know somewhere close yeah I know that I had a little talk about that they see more of certain kinds in certain areas of the country oh yeah I had a friend um she lives in Idaho and you know she only had so many Pokemon but she could never find her favorite and she recently traveled to Florida and she found her favorite Pokemon because they have a Pokemon there cool which I thought was some are rare in different areas yeah yeah well I hope you all like to my presentation today and I will answer your questions if there are any as best as I can oh I do have um I know you all know I'm sure you all know I don't have a picture I can't really plan her out on here there's a Pokemon called Eevee and she can evolve well now it's um eight or nine different forms but on the game there's only the first original three and Vaporeon's my absolute favorite Pokemon of all time so that's who I would involve her to but apparently if you specifically name your Eevee one of the three names it will evolve like you have to name it Rainer um RAINER to make a Vaporeon Pyro to make it a Flareon and then Sparky to make it a Jolteon which I thought was funny because the one kid who's playing it a lot his nickname is Sparky so I told him I was like you should name your Eevee Sparky and evolve into a Jolteon he's like no I'll just see what happens see you can do that and just go then it's a surprise and I actually did do that I did um when I first few times I evolved I didn't we didn't I hadn't learned that trick yet um so I just did it in randomly um but then when I did that I did try it for each one and it did it worked it made it into each one of those particular types so that was pretty cool if you're interested in the whole collect every single version of everything that's one that's a little trick yeah that's definitely what I would do for sure yeah and oh someone did comment just explain I think I might have read this but I but it's in a while said the those three names are the names of the three trainers who use Eevee in the TV show that's where it comes from yeah when you first when you first oh gosh I should have included a picture of that because they look really funny and their hair is different um they actually like the very first episode where you find them all there's it's three brother it's four brothers and three of them once got blue hair ones got red hair ones got yellow hair and they have Vaporeon Flareon and Jolteon respectively and then the younger brother who's got brown hair has just got Eevee and they're you know they're trying to pressure him all the time to involve his Eevee and he's like no my Eevee's perfect the way it is which you don't ever hear about Eevee's so I thought that was really sweet but that is the first time because that's also that's also when Ash learns about evolution stones too and they're telling him you should take the the thunderstorm and involve your Pikachu and then later on there's a whole episode about it about him struggling with the decision and it's been 20 years and he still hasn't evolved Pikachu so I think he's just gonna be a Pikachu forever gonna keep him as as his original forever yeah um last I knew like I I watched the anime pretty far into it and then it all just kind of got weird and I stopped watching it and then it skipped around so I couldn't keep up but uh yeah what was going on last I knew Pikachu has moves that his type shouldn't even have so he's he's pretty powerful which is why um if you guys know about Team Rocket that's why Jesse and James are always trying to steal him and you think it's like there's all these other Pokemon they could steal for their boss why are they going up to this Pikachu and it's because it's the most boss best one yeah um cool all right that that was a I think very concise good uh explanation introduction especially the beginning part Liz about um I actually didn't know about the beginning how how it became the history of the game yeah I didn't I had never even looked into that before yeah I never had either and I really like that when the anime first started his name was Satoshi and that's where they got ash from I just thought that was cool yeah it's always nice to see things like that cool um all right so we do have some questions and comments here um but if anybody does have any questions you want to ask anything you want to share about what you've done at your library or what you've seen about it or um anything about that go ahead and type it into the questions section here um we did have somebody back in the beginning as just was um didn't want to mention it back then but uh who explained that that other game the Ingris one and Ingris Ingris um is a sci-fi game about an alien invasion in a secret war against those that support the invasion and those who are fighting it um okay and they say anyways it's similar to the teams in Pokemon Go so it's yeah I I didn't know what it was about I I just looked military to me but I knew it was about aliens because someone um I can't remember his name there was a presenter at the youth retreat last month who was doing something about augmented reality and he brought up Ingris and said it was about aliens yeah I've heard I've I'd heard about that one a while ago and then when Pokemon Go came out I first didn't even make the connection until someone somewhere something mentioned that it's actually built on the same um the same locations like the same places same kind of thing it uses the the mapping features and actual um notable locations you know the churches and the and the hospitals and the businesses and whatnot are the same ones that are in that game as well yeah I was like oh cool the older the building uh the more advanced of a thing it can be like our library is a gem because it's one of the oldest buildings in town and if our old high school was still considered a building like it's um what's the word it's condemned so it's empty I'm sure that would have been because it's so so old I didn't know it was related it was that's I was always wondered why some things that you think are like big important sites aren't gyms but it's based on their the age it's based on age and um importance too like that's why in cities almost every museum is something almost every important building you can go into and learn is something but that's something else too um I'm hoping they change it when they update people from rural areas are having a hard time playing because there's not a lot on and there's like it's just empty whereas you turn it on a city stuff everywhere Pokemon everywhere and uh there last I knew they were working on that so everybody could play however much they want because that was when they first um when they first made it that was one of my very first questions I was like well what if you live because I used to live in the country I was like well what if you live in the middle of nowhere and can't go anywhere what are you supposed to do just capture all the if there are any Pokemon over and over yeah and even in some areas like residential areas I live in Lincoln on the south side town but it's a residence where our houses is residential so we're not and when you open up sit in my living room there's not businesses or schools or anything near me um and it's like a dead zone we had some kids come over for a barbecue one day and they all whip out their devices and I'm like oh guys I'm so sorry you're not going to have much fun with that particular game here our neighborhood is if you're lucky you'll find you know one or two yeah so find something else to play that's why I want to get um I wish like I have a reset my phone recently so I don't have it on my phone anymore but when I figure out how and you if you guys want it on your phone email me I will ask my friend how to get the GBA emulator back on your phone because then you can play just about any Game Boy game which and I was playing Pokemon Red and Pokemon Green which isn't as fun as red and I think I'll play some of the newer ones too but the newest newest ones you have to have special Game Boys for that I think right the brand new games yeah because oh yeah they're always they're still I mean this game is still Pokemon itself is still coming out with the new games regularly yeah so um it is not a old game that is just resurgence it's it's it's been every few years there's some new versions that come out so they're still going strong um we do have a question and this is I you kind of mentioned this before I think um do you think any the new features and the Pokemon Go Plus device will be enough to get and keep people in the game do you know much about that that Pokemon Plus thing I've seen I have actually heard I've actually heard that it's a big nuisance um really you try to use it aren't having the best time with it but I have a friend I have a friend in California who was staking out a GameStop to get the last one so yeah I don't know much about the devices I should have looked that up more but um yeah you're right I just typed it in and get like the top articles are saying it improves the grime but it can be obnoxious that it can keep disconnecting from your phone it's supposed to be a um and not oh oh okay a smart watch type thing Ruth is a bluetooth bracelet so you don't have to keep looking at your phone this thing you wearing your wrist like a Fitbit or something will then notify you that there is something near and then you can um pull out your phone to actually use it so yeah it depends on um if you have a really really good phone then yes get the Pokemon device and you know spending on your cell service too it'll make it more you know more uh immersive and stuff but if you don't have like me and a couple other people I know if you don't have the best phone it's probably not worth because I heard they're not cheap either it's probably not worth it to get it because they'll just keep disconnecting and make it you know more frustrating and you might not even want to play yeah I also heard there's a thing too you can hook it to your belt and it's a little electronic device I'm not exactly sure what but it's a Pokeball and when your device notifies you there's a Pokemon nearby you can pretend to throw the Pokeball at the Pokemon instead of tap in your screen okay yeah that's what it says here the Pokemon plus is a device that you can use to either it'll alert you when you're going near a Poke stop where you can collect the balls and extra things you can use and that you can if a Pokemon is near the actual critters and suppose you can use it just to go ahead and okay you can't see it on the screen but you can use it to actually throw the ball so you're just blindly throwing it using this device and if you get lucky you might catch one okay that sounds it keeps you from falling over staring at your screen but then you might get more frustrated if you keep trying and you can't even aim but it's uh no well so yeah I don't yet hit somebody I'm not seeing here anything that explains about you I'll have to look up yeah check it out Pokemon plus it's on the website we're gonna have links to all these websites the link that Liz mentioned earlier and the main Pokemon go website that has the information about this the devices as well so hopefully yeah that they'll get people more interested in the game and if they like anything when there's new technology there's gonna be you know bugs and things that need to be worked out before it is uh works perfectly I mean when the when the game itself first started out like you said they would the the servers would crash a lot and a lot of people are getting frustrated because it was so popular um I guess they realized it'd be so happy yeah the the company was not inspecting that at all and there is a few weeks of lots of grumbling as you said yeah and all the all the pokemon fans are like well of course we're all gonna play it yeah it's kind of a no-brainer not a catch ball so um they have seen that particular issue has been mostly resolved so over time some of these things will work themselves out as they you know more in practice and see how it goes you know oh here's an amazon what does it cost third party sellers 98 dollars yeah so it's pretty pricey to get the little bracelet thing so yeah it's not necessary just an extra perk if you want okay yeah they're gonna be $35 as manufacturers suggested retail price so if you get it or just get one to 35 so if you're but if you're just searching on amazon and finding other people selling yet of course they're gonna raise check up the price a bit if you get one 35 that's not bad yeah um someone else also mentions there is oh the pokemon buddies says thing that version that just came out um the new update um have you seen anything with that yet no I have not yeah it's something where you can have you can pick anyone in the pokemon you have um collected and make them your buddy for the moment and they walk with you um you don't see them on the screen but there's a little picture of them next to your picture your trainer's picture did they have that on one of the I don't remember which pokemon game it is but one of the more recent ones you can have that you choose a pokemon a companion yeah like a companion that goes around with you yeah and it says it that particular one if you're trying to collect and this is something to get more into the details of how the game works you when you are playing the game your pokemon will um you catch when you earn candies and that when you get a certain number of pieces of candy you can use that to evolve your pokemon or add more features and power power-ups to them and make them play better but which if you have a particular one that you're interested in really working on um make them your buddy and they will just randomly collect um find candies and eat them and and then um I'll not eat them they'll collect them as you're walking along and then you can you know have more of those to do whatever it is you want to do with that particular uh pokemon so it's not just a oh it's neat cute he's walking with me it actually is a it has a purpose which I thought was nice so if you know I want to really evolve like you said an evie or something um make them your buddy and then whenever you're doing a walking have the game open um you'll be getting your walking your distance in for your um eggs hatching um and for the if you're doing the charity one and then that on that particular one will also collect more um candies to keep um evolving and then you can switch it any time to any one of the other ones you might want that's cool so they are adding new things to it every now and then to make it more I'll just tell my patrons that I don't think they know that it was just within the last couple of weeks maybe I forget exactly I haven't really played with it much but I saw things about it and I just I just made peek at you mine just because I hadn't really thought about who I want to do but just for you know to try it yeah some else has been the last couple of weeks so it's very recent yeah all right anybody else have any other questions we're almost um into our and nearing the end of our hour this morning um does anybody have any questions or comments or anything you've done at your libraries I know when you did your article in you know type in your question section or let me know and I'll unmute you I know when you did your article is they also and I don't know if it was that you put in there they added um some little add to I think talk about I think UNO had done University of Nebraska and I had done some sort of events yep yeah another good thing um well I guess it's getting a little bit colder now so you can't do it and I wish we would have done it but we were really busy with summer reading and everything uh another thing you can do is a pokey walk where you all start at the same point turn your game on and then just go walking around your town and then someone records all the Pokemon you're getting or how much fun everyone's having or what gets what and then if you want to make it into a contest have the person keeping track the person who got the most Pokemon at the end wins especially like a book or something right oh yeah a prize of some sort like summer reading things yeah yeah I wish we would have done that but we really at at one time the most kids playing it that I knew of was like five but we're a really small town so that speaks to me but there's more people playing it and um but we're we're called considered Scribner Snyder because of this village that's really close to us I've seen more people playing it in Snyder which is so small it's considered a village compared to our town but that's you know that's mostly adults and there's actually quite a few Pokemon gyms in Snyder because those buildings are even older mm-hmm so slash the game connection to those yeah um and you can find more it's going on with that I just did a quicky google search of Pokemon Go Nebraska and there's a couple of Facebook groups for Nebraska and Lincoln maps for Nebraska Lincoln and Carney Pokemon Go locations around Omaha 10 best places in Nebraska to catch Pokemon so I'm sure the league of librarian gamers page probably has stuff too yeah I really need to get on that on that page I was hearing about it a lot yeah is when they analyze the different poke places that they knew and best places to catch Pokemon in the Cornhusker State as of this summer Ralston Gretna Lavista Gehring Platsmouth Shadron Papillion Scots Bluff Seward and Alliance hmm interesting so yeah definitely you can find more things going on to figure out what's going on there yeah and you mentioned that um oh this one person actually on the show says scots bluff has a lot yeah that so it seems like sometimes these suburbs of cities and meals medium-sized cities are having a lot of them yeah but you just mentioned even imagine Omaha oh gosh yeah but you just turn it on and it's like college campuses I know when well there was earlier this summer um University of Nebraska here in Lincoln they opened up Memorial Stadium where the Huskers play the football team for an evening for I think it was like four hours and people were able to go into the stadium actually so they did an event like you said you create an event um and have people come and the place was packed and the end I think they said oh 1700 some thousand over a thousand people came there to play the game but as you're wandering around you can see the campus college campus every building on campus there's so many different locations for either gyms or stops um so things like that where they got a lot of buildings are related together seems to be some places that end up with them as well but you just mentioned and I don't know how this is going to go the weather changing it's going to hit winters coming and yeah going to have to get creative with what you could do with them because well unless people decide it's going to bundle up and go anyways yeah it's not going to be as easy yeah I was about to say um the newest game coming out it's called um the Alola region and apparently um they're giving um like original generation Pokemon new forms so I was about to say maybe they'll have the ice forms come out but that's too new but it would be cool because like there's a snow a bull picks it's a fire Pokemon but there's a snow version and then that executor tree thing it turns it gets really tall like a palm tree and a lot of them have snow versions which I don't get because it's a tropical region but Pokemon's going to do their own thing well that's cool yeah if they come up with different ones like seasonal type ones or something yeah something seasonal game it would be neat yeah the Pokemon Sun and Moon game yeah yeah cool yeah and it's supposed to be like Hawaii but apparently the alternate versions are snow which I don't quite get but it's cool they're cool looking I love bull picks and nine tails and they look awesome yeah and Alola that we're talking about is a part of the Pokemon world it's not not something you see in real world they have all their own you know areas and geography just to clarify that okay all right doesn't look anybody has typed in any other questions anything else they want to know about it so I think maybe we could wrap it up for this morning if anybody has any urgent things you want to know anything else you want to share get it in there right now while we're wrapping up um thank you very much Liz that was great presentation um the basics that people need to know definitely about the game um there's a lot more to it if you do get more involved in the game um but for just at least getting started and knowing about the stops and how did you get some of your patrons or your your people who use your library um they may come into and ask you guys what is this thing I do not know what's going on and people keep talking about it somebody tell me something um this anybody has any more questions you were free to email me I'm always researching it and finding more stuff out about it because I still have plenty of friends who play and like if there's anything about Pokemon period you want to know feel free to email me yeah or look up those websites we've got for you right and like you said um they're always adding to the game as well so what we are talking about today when they do some updates coming up some new things maybe added to it um so keep on top of that cool all right so thank you very much Liz that was great all the information we need to know I'm going to um pull back present your control to my computer um and get over to the screen there we go um so thank you that was great um if you we do post up the recordings of the show afterwards and uh Liz will you send me your slides and I can put them up with our um recordings yeah sure just email that to me when you get a chance um I'll include that we also have our um delicious account here where I grabbed the links and I got the one here that she mentioned about the history of the whole Pokemon game is here um I'll also put a link to the um Pokemon main site as well now it is a um mobile game of course so when you go to the Pokemon website which I have linked here that's about the game and talks about the different things but you then would go to the you know your app store to get it either for your um apple or uh google or android device whichever uh you have and there's the information about that Pokemon go plus device we're talking about and this is it's like your Fitbit bracelet but it's specific to uh just what um just related to playing um the game so I'll go back here all right um so yeah that will wrap it up for this week's Encompass Live um the show has been is being recorded and it's going to be here on our main page right here underneath our upcoming shows we have a link to all of our archives and this is where we have all of our previous shows and the one here's a more recent one we have the recording just show you what will be there um presentation if anybody has the slides and any links will be related so the same information will be up when the recording for today's show goes up um that could be some time later today depending on how quickly um we post all our recordings of the show to youtube so they're out there just publicly for anyone to watch um and depends on how much youtube cooperates how quickly things will get converted and posted up there but I will announce when it is ready anyway we'll have to go over here and um see the recording and get a hold of the slides we also have a facebook page for Encompass Live for the show so if you are a big facebook user pop over there um just look for us and we have links off of our page to this I post reminders um uh when the show's starting here's one for today's show a lot reminding people to log in today um when the recordings are available there's one here I post on here and just reminders about upcoming shows so if you're big on facebook give us a like and you'll be notified of what's coming up on the show uh so next week's show and just concerned did it just just recently got this figured out while I was actually I was on vacation last week um we're going to have a show on next wednesday about library escape rooms if anyone's who have done any of those kind of things you get locked into a room somewhere and there's puzzles and um things in riddles and things you have to figure out to get yourself out of these rooms there's a couple here in Lincoln I'm not probably up in Omaha but um our Morton James public library in Nebraska City has created one of these escape rooms um at the library so um the director there is going to be with us next week to tell us more about that um we'll have some more details here I like I said I just got it on the schedule for today so definitely register for that show or any of our other ones that are coming up here you'll know in a couple of weeks there is our one week off that we do just to remind you in um the third week of October it is our Nebraska library association and Nebraska school librarians association annual conference and we do not hold encompass live that week so um there will be no show that's the one week we take off so we do the show 51 weeks of the year so just a note reminder that that will be the week off that we'll have um but as you can see around that we have everything scheduled out so sign up for any of our other shows join us and um yeah just make sure you're all right so thank you very much and we'll see you next time on encompass live thank you guys thank you thank you Liz that was great you did awesome um everything we need to know about it and stuff I didn't know yet I thought I'd I'm good at reading all you know I'm a librarian I read up on stuff but yeah can't no I can't learn everything thank you so much yeah I love doing it all right