Is JK Rowling planning a Harry Potter MMORPG?
Ok, I really wasn't sure where to post this. Some of us were talking about this the other day in WoW. I think I brought it up as I had Soulcatcher on a broom and was cruising around UC and was thinking how cool a Quidditch Match would be if we had a Harry Potter MMO.
I was wandering around and came across this article: http://www.geek.com/articles/games/is-jk-rowling-planning-a-harry-potter-mmorpg-20110617/
I know that recently Warner Brothers (who has the rights to the HP movies) purchased a game company (Turbine, who did LOTRO) which is why I have been occasionally searching for any information on this topic.
Here is the link for Pottermore: http://www.pottermore.com/
It is in some type of beta as we speak but so far I have not found clue one as to how to get an invite or as to what this could be. I have seen where they say that "dueling" was very popular on the beta. Now I don't know if that means you have a character and you get to duel with wands or what. Take it for what its worth and help me find out anything about this. If anyone knows of any info please post it here.
Found some more info, a bit old but cool to read none the less. http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/summoning-the-harry-potter-mmorpg
Thanks.
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Not really
It's not an MMORPG like WoW, Rift, SWTOR, etc. It's more like an interactive online reading experience for Harry Potter fans with flash games, etc. This article is from someone that got into the early access and wrote a review of it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bryan-young/inside-pottermore_b_927673.html
Screenshots here: http://gallery.the-leaky-cauldron.org/album/7061
Info here:http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2011/6/23/pottermore-announcement-details-on-j-k-rowlings-next-harry-potter-project
Basically you make a student and go through the books in Harry's footsteps. You get sorted into a house, get a wand, go shopping in Diagon Alley, brew potions, and can supposedly "duel" other players.
Very cool!
Thanks for the info Iky!
That review seems like this could pretty cool, hundreds make that over 33,000 (holy crap!) different possibilities for your wand and this is just an online forum sort of thing. I wonder if this could be a "test" so to speak to see if there would actually be enough interest in a HP type MMO...very cool stuff.
Also, someone made Hogwarts in Minecraft! Its insane!