Chapter 478: The Rules of the Game

Charlotte's words are not false.

He did figure out how to form a virtual Quidditch league.

It's like the Premier League.

Of course, in the way of video games.

On the one hand, Charlotte felt that she could indeed try to tap into the value of Alexis's wisdom in assembling the wisdom of the Premier League manager and deducing the Quidditch rules and trick system.

- It's always good to make a little more money.

On the other hand, Charlotte wanted to try if she could use the game to collect magic and improve her spells like in the movies.

As the new millennium approached, Charlotte knew that she had less and less time to use her spells freely.

In this case, even if he was very deep in the city, he began to feel a little worried in his heart.

Now, Charlotte has completely understood why the Lord of Hell gave her the ruby that contains Dracula's power, and she no longer takes the initiative to contact him.

Because you don't need to!

- As time goes on, Charlotte, under pressure to no longer be able to use spells freely, will inevitably consider his proposal to transform into a half-goblin.

That ruby was the bait that was placed there.

In fact, Charlotte did think about it.

However, he always felt that he should have a better way to solve the problem.

Moreover, this proposal of the Lord of Hell also harbors evil intentions.

Therefore, Charlotte is still researching her own methods, and in this process, it is very important to increase her mana.

After all, just like poverty, lack of mana will also limit people's imagination.

In fact, when she was talking to EA about the licensing of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", Charlotte thought about this issue.

It's just that, for EA, Charlotte can't give direct orders like she does to her own employees.

Moreover, there are so many magical things in the entire Harry Potter world that it makes it impossible for people's fantasy powers to be concentrated in one point for Charlotte's use.

So, this time he chose a concentrated breakthrough point - fly!

Flying has been a dream for a long time, and even though airplanes are now commonplace, people still fantasize about being able to soar through the sky with their own bodies and listen to the wind whistling past their ears.

It is precisely because of this that in Hollywood movies, fantasy equipment about flight, such as flying motorcycles, single-person rocket aircraft, and anti-gravity boots, will emerge in endlessly.

And the broomsticks and Quidditch in "Harry Potter" are also a fantasy direction.

What Charlotte hopes now is actually to gather the fantasy power of a large number of fans and game fans to see if she can provide more mana for herself.

— and the ability to give yourself the ability to fly.

That's why he chose Quidditch, which focuses on flying, as the direction of game production.

Of course, because there is no horror element in this game, it can't make players feel like fear, so Charlotte can be troublesome to collect mana and convert it.

But he still wanted to give it a try.

Even, he has developed a comprehensive plan -

First of all, this Quidditch game will be a sports game like FIFA or NBA.

Players control an entire team against the computer AI or other players.

Considering the current level of network and hardware, this game will first be mainly single-player, compatible with online battles, and will be released on console platforms.

It's something that can't be helped.

Considering the character and scene models that Ghost Party Studios can provide, they are basically based on 3D.

In order to express the three-dimensional sense of Quidditch's flight and speed experience, it is also necessary to make it into a 3D game.

But before the new millennium, the hardware level of computers did not develop explosively.

At this time, it is still difficult to play 3D games with the configuration of an ordinary personal computer.

It's a game console that has been optimized for gaming, and it's not a problem to support 3D games at all.

In this case, the console platform naturally became Charlotte's inevitable choice.

Of course, when computer games and Internet games develop further in the future, Charlotte will also try to withdraw from subsequent versions and follow the development of the game industry.

However, for the time being, making Quidditch a 3D version of the console game and supporting online battles is sufficient.

As for his planned Quidditch League, it will be launched in the form of eSports, similar to CG.

But whether it can go as smoothly as expected depends on whether the game is really popular.

Charlotte knows that whether a game can become popular depends on many factors in addition to its own quality.

It can be said that the element of chance is very high.

Fortunately, with the IP bonus of "Harry Potter", even if this game can't become a hit, it should still be possible to create a certain influence.

At this level, at least Charlotte's desire to collect mana through the game can already be tested.

And if all goes well, he is also ready to set up a real league backstory in this Quidditch game, and even make up a background for each player to make them more like a living person.

Even every season, the players' abilities will be adjusted, and even some new players will be added.

- It's like the FIFA series or the NBA series, where real-life stars are used, so there's this variation.

The reason why Charlotte asked Rowling, the original author, to talk about this matter was also to hope for Rowling's help-

On the one hand, it was licensed, and on the other hand, it was hoped that Rowling would add some backstories to the set Quidditch players that fit the Harry Potter world.

At the same time, if possible, he wants Rowling to use the characters set in the game as soon as Quidditch stars are mentioned in the later Harry Potter films.

In this way, the person who plays the game will have a wonderful sense of substitution.

- This is good for the game's sales, but it also makes it easier for Charlotte to collect mana through it.

In short, such a good thing, Rowling naturally agreed.

However, her original goal of lobbying Charlotte to continue directing the "Harry Potter" series of movies with David still did not succeed.

"I don't want to be tied to a series for ten years! ”

It's important for Charlotte to say it directly, and it's one of the reasons why Rowling and David are the easiest to understand.

And in the face of this reason, the two are helpless.

In the end, the meeting confirmed only one intention that Ghost Party Studios would commission EA to develop a console game about Quidditch.

- Unlike authorized development, commissioned development, it can be said that the requirements for the game are all determined by the ghost party studio, and EA only earns an OEM payment.

To do this, Spectre Studios also had to prepare a number of game designers to refine the development requirements and do the final checks.

Fortunately, there were already a few people in the special effects department of the studio who came from the video game industry, and it was not too difficult to gather a few good designers through them.

As for what happens in the future once this game becomes popular and there is a follow-up series?

Charlotte had already thought about it-

Dig people!

Just dig from EA's project team that developed the game, and if it goes well, it's okay for the whole team to dig it together.

This kind of thing is actually very common in business cooperation, and Charlotte doesn't think there's anything wrong with it.