Harry potter and the order of the phoenix games

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Years later, with the games and movies becoming closer together, it seemed only natural to try to create a new version of Hogwarts that looked as close to that of the movies as we could make it, while still maintaining a high degree of fictional accuracy for fans of the novels. When we began years before on PhilosopherРІР‚в„ўs Stone our version of Hogwarts was based strictly on the novels, with a nod to the look of the movies.

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The final task for me on Order of the Phoenix was to work out how to build the definitive version of Hogwarts. ItРІР‚в„ўs a massive task, and my respect goes to all those folks on the character and animation teams who tirelessly worked through the massive cast list and gradually brought all the characters to life. (DonРІР‚в„ўt believe me РІР‚вЂњ count on your fingers: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Hagrid, Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape, Fred, George, Neville, Draco, Crabbe, Goyle, etc., etc.) Each one of these characters has to be individually modelled, textured, rigged (bound to an animation skeleton) and then animated. But, for Harry, the books are so rich in memorable characters it is easy to create a list of 40 supporting characters before you even think about creatures and enemies. In most traditional games, you build the main character, a few supporting cast characters and a bunch of enemies. The Grand Staircase, complete with moving stairways and many, many portraitsРІР‚В¦

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This is vitally important stuff, especially because the Harry Potter games have to come out at the same time as the movie and a particularly big factor in this is how many characters the team has to build and animate. With the story broken down, all of the people who watch the budgets (the Producers and Development Managers) could then start working out how long everything was likely to take, which in turn would determine how much the game would cost to make and how many people we needed to make it.

With a storyline as complex as the Order of the Phoenix, youРІР‚в„ўll understand when I tell you that the diagram stretched to over thirty feet in length. With that done, I spent an awful lot of time building a huge wall diagram РІР‚вЂњ a timeline of the events that weРІР‚в„ўd be depicting in the game, with plot points broken down into cut scenes and missions, along with which characters, objects and spells were available in the game at any point. This not only helped refresh my mind about the book, but it also provided everyone on the Design Team with a guide to the novel that we could easily dip into and get to key paragraphs and descriptions quickly. First, take a couple of days to read the book from cover-to-cover, taking copious notes about key plot points, characters, spells and events and jotting down page numbers and references.

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Having tried many different approaches to the Potter series (single player/single character in PhilosopherРІР‚в„ўs Stone and Chamber of Secrets, single player/switchable characters in Prisoner of Azkaban and 3-player multiplayer in Goblet of Fire) the decision was to go back to basics РІР‚вЂњ to centre the game around Harry and the thing that our fans missed in the previous game РІР‚вЂњ the opportunity to explore Hogwarts.Р”Р‡or this, the final of the Potter games that I was to work on, the process was the same. Having completed work on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire the Potter team turned its collective attention to the next book/movie in the series РІР‚вЂњ the gigantic and complex Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Concept Design and Planning ( Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360)