You move by physically walking around. Inside your apartment won't work. You have to go outside and walk distance to run into pokemons and hunt down the ones that it shows are "nearby". It uses your phones GPS and overlays a google-map street layout that includes things like rivers and oceans and such.
People spend years failing at trying to get more people outside "exercising" and Nintendo gets millions outdoors in less than 24 hours.
My record is 4 consecutive hours walking around a nearby park, catching pokemon, battling the gyms there and getting free items from the pokestops.
If you don't already have a powerbank to charge your phone on the go, get one you will definitely hate yourself when a rare gets away because your battery died.
Yep and so far I have been using an Antigravity Battery Microstart XP-10 for a few months, using it to jump start everything from a 7.3 Powerstroke to my little Sentra and charging 3 phones at one. The thing is amazing!


































I've seen a LOT of other people playing it. Funniest thing is the parks have signs welcoming pokemon people.