The Vatican commissions a Pokémon Go style game that will have you searching for Jesus in the bushes of your neighbors yard.
Remember that overwhelming of feeling of that overcame you when you finally captured Pikachu or one of the more elusive Pokémon, like Articuno, in Pokémon Go? Now imagine that feeling when you finally catch Jesus Christ himself!
Oh, I’m not kidding.
A new Pokémon Go style game called Follow JC Go will have you up and out of the church pews exploring your local parks, yards, and streets in search of digitized Catholic saints and other holy dignitaries whoa are hiding behind trees, park benches and even in your own house. Follow JC Go features game play similar to that of Pokémon Go Jurassic World Alive, but with changes that would please any good Catholic.
Instead of training your holy eTeam (evangelization team) to battle other Saints, or go face-to-face with demons in an exorcism – you’ll instead be choosing the best religious figure to answer certain Biblical questions, with points tallying up on an international leaderboard.
Commissioned directly by the Vatican with blessings from the Supreme Pontiff himself, Pope Francis, players will embark on a journey to catch every holy figure in hopes of completing an eTeam that will eventually lead you on a new journey to find the ultimate holy figure, Jesus.
They say Jesus is everywhere, so he shouldn’t be too hard to find, except in Follow JC Go, where he happens to be the most elusive figure available.
During your travels, you might be in need of some booster points. Just use the app to locate the nearest church and stop in. You can also level up by staying healthy through eating, hydrating and of course, praying for the sick in hospitals.
Follow JC Go was developed by the Florida-based Catholic evangelical group, Fundación Ramón Pané, which is composed of 43 designers, theologians, historians and engineers, and reportedly cost of $500,000 to develop..
For the church, Follow JC Go is an opportunity to use AR technology to reach a younger generation after an almost 20 percent drop-off from a 25 and under demographic, who are leaving the church for reasons such as an ongoing sexual abuse scandal, and vowing to not return.
Of course, the marketing team behind the app knew to release the AR game right before the 2019 World Youth Day in Panama, a massive holy event organized by the Catholic Church to bring young people together.
The app has been in development since the summer of 2016, which was largely considered the height of the Pokémon Go phenomenon. It appears as though Pope Francis hopes Follow JC Go can capitalize on the success of previous augmented scavenger hunts and continue the Churches ongoing campaign towards modernization. As they say, the lord works in mysterious ways.
Follow JC Go is available now on the iOS and Android store but only in Spanish. English, Italian, and Portuguese language version will be available soon.
Image Credit: Ramón Pané Foundation, Inc.
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