Chapter 45 The first step towards cultural integration
"What is this? Playing cards? Harry, who had lost several games in a row, asked deliberately after seeing what was in Clark's hand.
Of course he knew it wasn't playing cards, and he wasn't Ron.
Clark showed Harry the thick stack of cards in his hand as he explained, "This is a magic card I invented to imitate Muggle game cards, and it's still in the design stage. ”
Harry took a card and saw a lifelike werewolf drawn on a card the size of a playing card, howling at the moon.
Monster Card (Bronze) [Werewolf]: These are evil creatures that roam the night, and every full moon night, they transform into giant wolves and look around for prey.
The card in Ron's hand depicts an ugly-looking troll with a wooden stick in his hand.
Monster Card (Silver) [Troll]: Trolls living in hilly terrain are powerful and simple-minded, all you need to do is to avoid them from afar.
"How do you play this?" Harry asked curiously.
Clark smiled slightly, took out a chessboard with grass on it, and spread it on the table.
"It's actually quite simple." Clark casually drew a Centaur card from the deck, placed it in the rectangular space on the board, and motioned for Harry to put it on as well.
When the two cards fill the gaps on the board, a horse and a werewolf appear on the grass at the same time.
"All it takes is a few simple commands from you, and the monsters you've summoned will be in action. For example, this: Attack! ”
At Clark's command, the centaur drew his bow and arrows and shot at the werewolf.
The werewolf wouldn't hide without Harry's orders, so he stood there dumbfounded, shot alive by Clark's centaurs.
When the werewolf died, the card in front of Harry bounced off the board, and even the pattern turned gray.
At this time, Ron, who was watching from the sidelines, said directly: "Oh, what are you playing with, look at me." ”
As he spoke, he put the [Troll] card in his hand on the chessboard.
A tall troll appeared on the prairie and, with Ron's "attack", dragged the stick upside down and charged towards Clark's centaurs.
Looking at the trolls rushing over, Clark didn't panic, just commanded the centaurs to stand in place and shoot. However, trolls are not werewolves, and even if they are hit by several arrows, they will not lose their speed.
When the troll rushed in front of the centaurs, Ron already had a smug smile on his face, but Clark, as the inventor of the game, naturally wouldn't let him win so easily.
"Dodge, attack."
Under Clark's command, the centaur made a nimble turn and opened the distance between himself and the troll, then stopped, turned around and continued to shoot at the troll.
After repeating this a few times, Ron's trolls were in a desperate situation. However, when the troll fell, it also threw out the giant stick in its hand at Ron's command, and smashed it into Clark's centaurs.
"Clark, this game is so much fun!" Ron looked at the cards that popped up in front of him and said excitedly.
Of course, it's interesting, after all, what kid can say no to this kind of confrontational, collectible, and beautiful card game.
Even Clark at the beginning had been obsessed with "Yu-Gi-Oh" for a long time.
Looking at Harry and Ron, who were looking through the cards, Clarke's face smirked.
Compared to the traditional and monotonous wizard chess, this magic card should be more popular with young wizards. Who makes the wizarding world so little entertainment?
However, it will also be more expensive.
In the wizarding world, animate portraits are also hierarchical.
Like the lowest-level magic photographs, which only require a small development potion, they can be taken with a regular Muggle camera, which can be used on the cheapest newspapers.
And the better one is the magic painting card that comes with the chocolate frog, the magic portrait in the card, which only has a very simple behavior pattern, neither thinking nor talking, and the only advanced one is that you can leave the frame.
As for the highest level, just look at the various portraits in Hogwarts, the characters in those portraits can not only leave their own frames and live in other people's frames, but also communicate with people and have a certain memory, which is no different from real people.
But this kind of high-level magic painting is only available to the historic Hogwarts and pure-blood families.
Because painting such a high-level magic painting, the painter needs to eat and live with the painted person for a long time in advance, so as to grasp the essence of the painted person.
Coupled with the special magic paints and the magic painters who have mastered the high-end skills, the cost of each high-level magic painting is close to fifty gold gallons.
And the thirty magic cards that Clark found someone to customize were only a little more advanced than the magic painting card that came with the chocolate frog, and it also cost a gold Galleon.
Clark only estimated the cost, and knew that this set of magic cards would have to sell at least hardware galleons to make money.
Of course, if the scale increases, the price can also be compressed to three gold galleons.
But there are only a few thousand people in the entire British wizarding world, and there are only a few hundred young wizards who go to Hogwarts, and this potential consumer group is too small, if you want to make a business with this, I am afraid that there will be no money in a short time.
However, Clark is still ready to invest a little time and energy, his intention to invent magic cards is to integrate the culture of the world of Faeron into the cards, and then subtly influence the wizards in the wizarding world. Making money is only secondary to him.
After all, the wizards of the wizarding world are unfaithful, they do not believe in God or Merlin, they are a bunch of unbelievers.
In this case, it is naturally difficult for Clark to spread his faith in the wizarding world, spread his professional knowledge, and exalt the kingdom of God.
So Clark is going to use magic cards as the first step in cultural integration, integrating the culture of the gods into the card game, so that wizards, especially young wizards, can adapt to this.
It's a pity that the portrait intelligence of the magic cards is still too simple to adapt to more complex gameplay.
This game really wants to mature, but I'm afraid it will have to wait until Clark successfully changes jobs.
Now Harry, the version they are playing is just a closed beta version.
But even in the closed beta, Harry and Ron had a lot of fun.
Not only them, but even the Weasley twins, as well as other Gryffindor wizards who stayed in school, joined in.
In the small common room, it suddenly became hot.
"Oh, why don't you come out of [Vampire], the one who can fly will definitely be able to catch up with [Centaurs]."
"Defense! Defense! Look at the description of this [Dwarven Shield Warrior], saying that he is good at defense, why are you letting him fight against trolls!"
"Hide......"
The arguments were endless, and Clark knew that he might not want to get a good night's sleep tonight.