<p>This is the first of two or maybe three parts on the subject on Ingress,
 which was released into invitation-only beta-testing by Google in November of 2012.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ingress.com" title="Ingress">Ingress</a> is a 
world-spanning location-based game set in a world somewhere between the real one 
and a fictional one that is almost exactly like the real one except with space-alien 
mind control conspiracies.</p>
<p>This episode is purely about "playing the game". The follow-up episode will be 
more about the underlying technology and things you (and Google) might be able to do 
with it besides the core gameplay.</p>
<p>There may be a third part if there is enough interest.</p>
<p>A final note - the app version that I mention in the show was upgraded
literally about 5 minutes after I finished editing and started to prepare this
show for upload. (And, yes, I'm using "literally" correctly - I mean I finished
exporting the file from audacity, went to check Google+, and within 300 seconds
someone was mentioning that a new version was out).  It does seem to resolve
some of the problems I mentioned, just as I speculated that it might. I'll 
follow up on this and any subsequent updates in the followup episode.</p>
<p>Comments and suggestions and demands for more episodes are welcome, nay, 
<b>encouraged</b> either on this episode's comments at hackerpublicradio.org
or on my own blog at https://hpr.dogphilosophy.net . Thanks for listening!</p>
