Ready to pair: Niantic announces “Peridot”.

After “Pokémon” and “Pikmin”, developer Niantic now wants to create its own game world instead of just bringing characters invented elsewhere to the smartphone. With “Peridot”, the augmented reality specialist revealed its latest project on Wednesday, which evokes memories of the once popular “Tamagotchis”: It’s about caring for, employing and raising animal figures. Unlike the Tamagotchis, however, Peridots cannot die even with poor care. And they can have sex.

As revealed by Niantic, players can have their adult peridots mated to create new digital animals. Each peridot is unique and that is reflected in the offspring, said the Niantic manager responsible for the game, Ziah Fogel. For an average player, it will take two to three days to raise a newly hatched peridot. With the success of “Pokémon Go”, Niantic has succeeded in establishing a new type of mobile game that combines digital content and real environments. Launched in 2016, the app is all about finding and catching game characters in the real world. The initial hype about “Pokémon Go” has subsided noticeably, but there is still a hard core of active players. Expensive licenses Some of them spend money in the app and thus continue to bring solid income to Niantic. However, the company has to pay money for the use of the Pokémon figures to their inventors – this also applies to their game “Pikmin Bloom” and the game “Harry Potter: Wizards Unite”, which has since been discontinued. On the other hand, Niantic has full control over the peridots invented in-house. In the new game, the characters should also interact more naturally with the environment than before and, for example, be able to turn corners or disappear behind opaque objects Niantic did not make a possible release date. A beta version of the game should first be tested in selected markets, according to the official website playperidot.com, where interested parties can register in order to be informed in good time about the launch in their country.

Reference-www.krone.at