Teacher goes viral after creating Pokemon Go style game for hunting books

While with Pokémon Go, players use a mobile device’s GPS and camera to track virtual creatures around town, teacher Aveline Gregoire’s version is played through a Facebook group called “Chasseurs de livres” (“Book hunters”).

Gregoire hid a bunch of books around her town and encouraged Facebook friends to hunt for the books. Participants are encouraged to find hints on the page to hunt down the books.

After they have read the book, then they have to return the book to another location and share hints on the group’s page and so on.

The group’s page already has more than 46,000 members.

“While I was arranging my library, I realized I didn’t have enough space for all my books. Having played Pokémon Go with my kids, I had the idea of releasing the books into nature,” Gregoire told Reuters.

Gregoire is now contemplating developing a mobile app for the game, given its huge popularity.

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