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[Putnam]

The number of idea guys is absolutely more than the number of proper game devs. It's way easier to be an idea guy.

[Neonivek]

The number of idea guys is absolutely more than the number of proper game devs. It's way easier to be an idea guy.

Well... It is one thing to come up with a loose idea.

It is another to buckle down and try to translate that idea into outright mechanics.

I gave up on fixing the Pokémon pen and paper game... Not because I couldn't, It was rather easy, but because it would take too much time for something I was ultimately not interested in.

[nenjin]

The number of idea guys is absolutely more than the number of proper game devs. It's way easier to be an idea guy.

Well... It is one thing to come up with a loose idea.

It is another to buckle down and try to translate that idea into outright mechanics.

I gave up on fixing the Pokémon pen and paper game... Not because I couldn't, It was rather easy, but because it would take too much time for something I was ultimately not interested in.

Even forming a concrete, mechanically sound idea is peanuts compared to actually programming.

[PTTG??]

Here's their problem:


Well, actually, they have several problems. One of the largest is self-knowledge. The problem they have which I intend to talk about is this:

They aren't actually making a Harry Potter game. They're making a WOW clone set in a place named Hogwarts. Instead of explaining how they intend to organize players by year and how they'll have lessons and how a regimented, linear experience in a school where one lives and studies can possibly make a good game, they talk about having individual rooms instead of dormitories, how you'll wander into the Forbidden Forest for sweet loot, and how you'll eventually get to have a broom mount. They say how combat will be very different from WOW because everyone is a low-HP squishy wizard. Tanking will never be the same, they say.

[miauw62]

Got to love that incredibly creative company name.

[MrWiggles]

They're really big fans of Resident Evil.

[Reelya]

Player characters:
Are these first years?

Edit They've got some nice art on the KS page, which is Nice, I guess.

it looks like their paper-doll art system also ripped of Kudos 2. They even got the leg-tilt the same:

[MrWiggles]

They're probably using the same croquet, instead of taking shit from Kudos 2.

[tryrar]

Real question is how long before they get hit with a massive horde of C&D letters?

[Neonivek]

Instead of explaining how they intend to organize players by year and how they'll have lessons and how a regimented, linear experience in a school where one lives and studies can possibly make a good game

I am picturing my dream harry potter based MMO to be basically you going to Hogwarts and going through the years...

But eventually your character will "retire" so to speak but your child will become available with bonuses.

Though I also picture it without a huge focus on combat.

[MrWiggles]

Real question is how long before they get hit with a massive horde of C&D letters?

They're claiming they have an understanding with WB. I cant help but feel this is dubious.

[Rez]

Instead of explaining how they intend to organize players by year and how they'll have lessons and how a regimented, linear experience in a school where one lives and studies can possibly make a good game

But eventually your character will "retire" so to speak but your child will become available with bonuses.

Wizard breeding game!

[Sergarr]

Instead of explaining how they intend to organize players by year and how they'll have lessons and how a regimented, linear experience in a school where one lives and studies can possibly make a good game

But eventually your character will "retire" so to speak but your child will become available with bonuses.

Wizard breeding game!

Yay! Let's give old players ability to create characters vastly more powerful than e\any\\thing available to the new players! Cheers for Harry!

[Aklyon]

They say how combat will be very different from WOW because everyone is a low-HP squishy wizard. Tanking will never be the same, they say.

But will it involve hotkeys, or typing spells out instead?

[scriver]

Better learn your accents. Vingardium leviosá indeed.