What is Harry Potter: Wizards Unite & Features

[Dumbledore]

What is Harry Potter: Wizards Unite?

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is an augmented reality (AR) mobile game that will see you immersed into the Wizarding World. You will become a witch or wizard, walking among muggles, defending the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy to ensure that the magic world remains a secret.

The Calamity has caused chaos, scattering magic items across the world and risking discovery by non-magical people. These "foundables" are what you'll be hunting out on your mission as part of the Statute of Secrecy Task Force. Trying to stop you collecting the foundables are "confoundables", dark magic or creatures, which you'll need to use spells against.

The game will involve exploration and discovery, collection, battling, team work - and all in the real world, using Niantic's maps. Wizards Unite gives you the opportunity to develop your skills, choose a wizarding career (auror, magizoologist, professor), and interact with characters, artifacts and themes from the Harry Potter universe. 

It's designed to fulfil the fan fantasy in letting you become a witch or wizard.

 

How the game works

Like Pokemon Go, the game will see you walking around discovering items. There will be points on the map - inns, greenhouses, fortresses - as well as "traces" scattered around. You can interact with all these things and they make-up the discovery side of the game.

The traces of magic will be places where you can find something magical, called "foundables" in the game. That might be a beast, friend or enemy and once you open them up, you'll move into an AR experience, using the camera on your app to blend the game world with the real world, just like collecting Pokemon in Pokemon Go. Note: You can turn off the AR if you prefer.
 

The inns will let you collect spell energy that you'll need to play the game, while the greenhouses will be where you'll get ingredients for creating potions, as well as being able to grow ingredients.

The fortresses are places that have higher-value foundables - likely a collection of beasts to battle - presenting a slightly bigger challenge which in some cases will need collaboration with friends to defeat. It's also here that your career choice matters because an Auror might be better placed to battle a Death Eater than a Professor for example.
 

Everything you encounter will be collected in your suitcase, with a Registry that's a little like a sticker book where you can keep track of everything. There will also be a vault where you keep your potions, potion ingredients and other items.
 

Another thing you'll be able to collect and use is a portkey, which will transport you to a different location. This introduces elements of the game not dependent on physical location. We transported to Ollivanders, for example, with more collection challenges once in the (virtual) famous wand shop.
 

Portkeys need to be unlocked and this is where walking comes into the game - you'll have to walk 2, 5 or 10km to unlock the portkey. However, portkeys mean you can then play some aspects of the game at home or in the garden, for example.

That makes up the basic outline of how the game will work through discovery and collection, but there's a lot more that Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will offer. The best way to discover how the game works is to play it - things are explained as you go along with many first encounters being guided.

 

 

Game Features

• Ministry ID

  Players will be able to establish themselves as an official member of the wizarding world and the Statute of Secrecy Task Force by personalizing their selfie with Wizarding World-inspired lenses, frames, deformations, accessories, stickers, and many more customizable features.

• Portkeys

  Upon discovering and activating a Portkey Portmanteau, players will be able to reveal an immersive VR-like experience and transport themselves to explore iconic Wizarding World locations.

• Potion Crafting

  Players can collect ingredients from Greenhouses on the Map, within distinct biomes, and during various weather conditions to brew different Potions that can improve their gameplay.

• Professions

  Players can specialize in different professions: Auror, Magizoologist, and Professor. Players from different professions will be encouraged to work together to defeat Wizarding Challenges and unlock rare content.

• Spell Casting & Advanced AR+ Encounters

  Magical Traces will trigger richly detailed 3D encounters in full 360-degree advanced AR+ where players will need to cast various spells (tracing a glyph on screen) to defeat confounding magic.

• Real World Exploration

  While Players explore the real world, they will find a variety of Wizarding locations on their Map, including Inns, Greenhouses, Fortresses, and magical Traces where Players can trigger specific Encounters.

• Wizarding Challenges

  Synchronous multiplayer challenges in Fortresses on the Map will present a complete RPG experience featuring shared arenas, combat encounters, and group-wide arena effects.

• Mysteries

  A deep, multi-year narrative arc will have players solving various mysteries including the truth behind what caused the Calamity.

 

You can download Wizards Unite for iOS, Android!

Download Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the real-world augmented reality (AR) game inspired by the Wizarding World that puts magic in the hands of players worldwide. Co-developed and co-published by Niantic and WB Games under the Portkey Games label.

 

[LilyGrangerWeasley]

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[Dumbledore]

Who is that hiding under the invisibility cloak? Harry... Is that you? No?
Well, you must be a Muggle... And, you've found our magical community!

In that case, I think you should join us.
Enrol | Sign in

Once signed in you’ll be ‘sorted’ into your Hogwarts house; where you can start creating your own personalised ‘topics’ straight away, or you can also join existing conversations with fellow fans by replying to ‘threads’ and discussions that pique your interest.