As the world goes mad for Pokémon Go, a Kent prankster has filmed a video in Maidstone seemingly mocking the game’s zombie-like players.

Lee Marshall, better known to his thousands of online followers at Discoboy, walks around the county town with his gaze glued to his mobile phone, telling anyone who wants to listen that he is searching for virtual creatures.

He uses unsuspecting members of the public, including a police officer, as extras in his homemade movie, even persuading one workman to lift him up in his cherry picker so he can reach a character high up on a wall outside Lush cosmetics shop in King Street.

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At one point he climbs onto the bonnet of a police car and is brought down by an officer.

Marshall, from Sturry, near Canterbury, is also seen walking into tables and chairs outside The Muggleton Inn pub in the High Street and falling into a group of girls.

Mobile phone game Pokémon Go, released this month, makes use of GPS (Global Positioning System) and the phone’s camera and allows players to search for and “capture” fictional creatures hidden by the game’s manufacturers in the real world.

There have been concerns throughout the world as youngsters, in particular, walk around looking at their phones instead of paying attention to roads and other dangers and several social media commentators have compared players to zombies.

Police confirmed no one had been arrested in connection with the making of the film.