"I honestly didn’t expect such help from people, but I’m really glad that they’re here because I couldn’t have done this without them," Tenuta says.ĭon't hold your breath, though, for the game's signature augmented-reality camera mode, or for three-dimensional models of each monster. Tenuta says that he doesn't expect PoGo-UWP to ever get up to par with the official Pokemon Go app's signature Augmented Reality mode or 3D models. Which means that lots more features are coming, bringing it just a little bit closer to the original Pokémon Go app with each update.
On the project's GitHub page, Tenuta says that he was soon bombarded with feature requests, questions, and bug reports, so much so that he ended up spending " the following 3 days working for 24 hours straight to solve them and make people happy."īut just shy of two weeks ago, Tenuta writes, he got help in the form of a team of experienced volunteers willing to donate their time to helping him build the project. The first, extremely basic version of PoGo-UWP dropped at the end of July. He spent a day doing technical tests to make sure it was possible, and off he went. Plus, as an independent app developer, he thought it might give him some visibility. That petition had 80,000 signatures when Tenuta saw it, and it gave him the spark of an idea.
#POKEMON GO BLUESTACKS 3 WINDOWS 10#
Tenuta says that he got the inspiration from a fan-made petition going around the internet begging Niantic to bring Pokémon Go to Windows 10 Mobile. It's apparently come a little ways since this video was uploaded: Here's a look at the first version of the game in action.
#POKEMON GO BLUESTACKS 3 ANDROID#
It connects to the main Pokémon Go servers, so you can play with your friends on Android and iPhone. Just be advised before we go any further that Niantic has been cracking down on the use of unauthorized Pokémon Go tools, and using PoGo-UWP could get your account banned from the game as a cheater. A version of the game that went live on Friday added the Pokédex and the ability to see the items you're carrying. That means that if you really wanted to, you could use PoGo-UWP to play Pokémon Go on your Windows 10 PC, too.Įssentially, PoGo-UWP is a donation-funded version of the familiar Pokémon Go app rebuilt from the ground up for Windows 10, one feature at a time. The "UWP" part of the name refers to " Universal Windows Platform," Microsoft's new standard for apps that can run on desktops, tablets, and mobile phones alike.
That's a fraction of the many millions of players on the official Pokémon Go app for iPhone and Android, but it's impressive for a niche passion project. Tenuta tells Business Insider that his unofficial PoGo-UWP app has had 50,000 unique users opening the app a combined 1.5 million times in the month or so since it was first released. "B eing rejected is always a good source for motivations, and proving that I’m better than what they thought is one of them," Tenuta tells Business Insider. On the project's GitHub Wiki page, Tenuta gives three main reasons for starting the PoGo-UWP project: First, "because learning new things is always cool." Second, "because it could be done." But third, and best of all: "Because Microsoft rejected my job application saying that I wasn't showing enough 'passion', and this proves them wrong :)" Pokémon Go is a smash hit on Android and iPhone, but there's no version at all for Microsoft's struggling Windows 10 Mobile, leaving some would-be players in the cold.Īnd given that Windows 10 Mobile's market share is well under 1% of all smartphones globally, there's not a lot of incentive for game developer Niantic to ever make one.įortunately for those few, proud Windows 10 Mobile phone owners, there is an option: " PoGo-UWP," a totally unsanctioned and unauthorized effort to bring the Pokémon Go phenomenon to Windows 10, spearheaded by a developer named Stefano Tenuta. Behold: PoGo-UWP running in a window on Windows 10.