Harry Potter Wizards Unite: Devs introduction

Published at 13/06/2019 at 23:34 By MGG

A group of developers on Harry Potter Wizards Unite expressed themselves in an article on the official website. It deals with the various aspects of creating a video game, as their new title's release date grows nearer.

Harry Potter Wizards Unite: Devs introduction

The Harry Potter Wizards Unite official website published a Dev diaries, introducing the story of creating a mobile video game with augmented reality. Besides this publishment on the website, the threat level has gone red, hinting at a close release date!

Gathering some reactions of the staff, the article also reveals the faces of those who control the design of the next AR game which may make the community go wild.

Introducing:

Marigold, Product Manager, Niantic
Mike, Senior Software Engineer, Niantic
Nicole, Product Manager, WB Games
Steve, Design Director, WB Games

You can read the whole Dev diaries here! You won't discover new game features or big news, but you will learn more about what the devs tried to trigger in the players, and how they designed the use of AR.

For years, us fans have imagined what magic would look like outside the settings of the books and films, what it would look like right in our own backyards. With Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, not only will players find out exactly what it's like to be a part of the wizarding world together with their friends in their own neighborhood, but they will also be living their own story as they take part in solving the larger Calamity that the Statute of Secrecy Task Force has tasked them with.

Mike, Senior Software Engineer, Niantic

The game isn't officially released, but it's already available using APK on iOS mobile phones and we explain how to download and install the APK for Harry Potter Wizards Unite!

Written by Romain "Zorg" Becquelin. Translated from French by Millenium.

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