7 Pidgeys
Family Friendly in Person Events with Pokemon Go
Background & Goals of Project
Early 2021 I found myself wanting to try to revive my sense of community and decided to do so by using the mobile game Pokemon Go. This project was one of the founding reasons I started JCM as a passion project of creativity and event hosting.
Gift Hunt
Within the Pokemon Go game players have the ability to gift each other small gift boxes of items. In order to get the attention of other people in the community who play the game I designed, printed, assembled, stuffed, and began hiding these gift boxes around popular places in town to play the game during important events where players would be more likely to find them. These were a massive hit with players!
Community Day
One of the biggest in-game events for Pokemon Go is the monthly "Community Day" event. This event is a 3 hour long stretch where rare versions of Pokemon are able to be found much more frequently than usual. In order to help build that community we started setting up meet-ups where we offered some additional incentives to come out and be a part of the community with contests and prizes.
Through these efforts we were even able to get noticed by the developer of the game and become members of the Community Ambassador program!
Website
To give players a place to go to find all the information they needed about out community I set up a website. We purchased the domain "pogo.community" and put the website for this project at https://7pidgeys.pogo.community
Discord Server
One of the most important things for a community is a place to talk with each other! For 7 Pidgeys this was a Discord server. This server took on many forms over it's lifetime, which evolved and changed forms as the needs of the community changed.