it works like a normal “3D” computer game except it uses the GPS locations from your phone, the game map itself is an actual real map of the suroundings which the company making the game have overlayed various game elements onto.
So instead of using your computer or console to move around the game landscape you are supposed to walk around outside looking at the image on your phone camera (like you were taking a photo), as you do this some cartoon anmals appear and you have to play some other game to catch them.
Some big buildings (the software just seems to allocate these areas by size/appearance and isn’t 100% sure what exactly they are) “contain” more of these creatures.
Once you have collected enough of them you can take them to another area called a “gym” where they can battle other creatures someone else has, and/or turn into other rarer kinds as you get points for doing this.
This is about as much as I understand of it – and as you have to do all this whilst walking around it just seems like a big opportunity for collisions and other accidents..
