Mission Day Los Baños, Laguna is an official Niantic event to be held on October 24, 2018 focusing in the Special Science and Nature City of the Philippines – Los Baños in Laguna. Mission Days are a great way to explore a city through unique in-game-based Missions on Ingress.

Ingress. Ingress is a location-based, augmented-reality mobile game developed by Niantic—which is short for “you install a game on your phone, and the game takes place in the real world, so you have to get out of the house to play.”

Players choose one of two factions: Enlightened or Resistance - that compete against controlling “exotic matter” or XM which is scattered on the game interface layered on top of a map.

Thousands of players around the world attend official and community organized events which incorporate interaction with partner brands.

Mission Days. A mission day is a cross-faction event made for city exploration through the lens of Ingress. Organizers put up 12 to 24 missions set across the city for the agents to complete. A requirement is usually to do 6 or more missions to receive an in-game credit for a Mission Day badge.

Each mission is set on a location in a city, a point of interest, an important landmark or a historical location. These locations are usually the tourists’ destinations and other interesting sites less travelled by visitors. This way, the missions are actually a “virtual tourist guide” guiding your way on a route through the use of portals which represent real world points of interests.

This March 24, we will be doing a Mission Day in Los Baños, Laguna. The missions include points of interests in the University and the surrounding areas including the Carabao Park, Oblation Park, Nihon Koen, Sculpture Garden, and National Arts Center, among others. Each agent will be required to complete at least 12 missions from a list of 18.

As we have partnered with UP Alliance of Gamers and VISIV, for new agents who sign up for the game, we will be doing a “New Agents Onboarding” which will walkthrough agents about the technology behind the game and the basic game mechanics.