Developer Niantic introduced on Tuesday that the brand new free-to-play AR (augmented actuality) app based mostly on Nintendo‘s Pikmin franchise has launched on iOS and Android units in Australia and Singapore with the title Pikmin Bloom. The corporate will launch the app in different international locations and areas “shortly.”

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Within the app, as customers stroll, they are going to discover seedlings and pluck Pikmin from them. Strolling with Pikmin makes flowers bloom alongside customers’ paths. There’s a function to assessment the variety of steps and routes the person has taken. Pikmin may carry again postcards of visited locations. The app can have a month-to-month Communtiy Day occasion, and Niantic will reveal extra particulars at a later date.

As in Niantic‘s earlier Pokémon GO sport, the brand new app will encourage out of doors actions and strolling. Niantic‘s Tokyo Studio is growing the sport, and would be the studio’s first title since its founding in April 2018. The app is a part of a brand new partnership for extra cellular and smartphone video games that use Niantic‘s AR expertise.

The Pikmin collection of technique video games permits gamers to regulate creatures known as Pikmin in an effort to discover an unknown planet and survive in opposition to predatory adversaries, utilizing the particular properties of every sort of Pikmin to navigate the sport surroundings.

Nintendo launched the primary sport within the collection on the Nintendo GameCube in 2001. Nintendo launched Pikmin 3, on the Wii U in 2013. The side-scrolling action-adventure sport Hey! Pikmin shipped for Nintendo 3DS in July 2017 in Japan, North America, and Europe. The Pikmin 3 sport shipped for the Wii U in 2013, and shipped for the Swap as Pikmin 3 Deluxe in October 2020. Pikmin 4 is at present being developed by Nintendo, and Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto talked about in 2015 that Pikmin 4 was “very near completion.”

The Pokémon GO app launched in choose international locations together with the US in July 2016.

Supply: Niantic by way of Gematsu