# Ingress **Domain:** Location-based games **Doc Type:** Developed Artifact Node **Maturity:** Developed **Collection:** [[collections/Gamification|Gamification Collection]] ## Definition **Ingress** is Niantic's location-based augmented-reality game in which players join global factions and act at “portals” mapped onto physical landmarks. A persistent shared state links digital territory to movement through ordinary space. ## Significance Ingress demonstrates that an interface need not overlay graphics on a camera to reorganize physical behavior. It turns monuments and public places into objectives, teams into persistent networks, and location traces into game state. ## Sources - Niantic, [Ingress and the future of augmented reality](https://nianticlabs.com/news/arfuture?hl=en) ## Routes [[wiki/Alternate Reality Game|Alternate Reality Game]] · [[wiki/Tiering|Tiering]] · [[wiki/Playable Systems Literacy|Playable Systems Literacy]]