The game has received local media coverage , including for players organizing events such as creating links between portals at war memorials for Memorial Day . The opposing faction members at MIT arranged a campus-wide truce after the death of Sean Collier , an MIT police officer shot by the perpetrators in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing , and placed their two respective portals side-by-side in a virtual cenotaph at the site of his death . On July 31 , 2016 , 49 players from both factions in South Africa collaborated to create a work of field art , a way to create control fields to form a picture or artistic design , of a rhinoceros , covering approximately to raise awareness of rhino poaching in Southern Africa
Boston Marathon bombing
Boston Marathon bombing
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