Author: Chaim Gartenberg
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite — the Pokémon Go-esque augmented reality Harry Potter game — is a game uniquely unsuited to the current world of self-quarantining people looking to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. Unlike most video games, which are thriving right now due to the captive audience of bored people stuck inside, Wizards Unite (much like Pokémon Go) is a game almost entirely based around exploring outdoors and meeting up with other players in public spaces — the exact sort of thing that people are supposed to avoid doing right now.
How do you play a GPS-based game when you can’t leave home?
Fortunately, the Wizards Unite team has a solution and its based in a clever bit of in-universe fiction: the Knight Bus,...
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Harry Potter: Wizards Unite — the Pokémon Go-esque augmented reality Harry Potter game — is a game uniquely unsuited to the current world of self-quarantining people looking to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. Unlike most video games, which are thriving right now due to the captive audience of bored people stuck inside, Wizards Unite (much like Pokémon Go) is a game almost entirely based around exploring outdoors and meeting up with other players in public spaces — the exact sort of thing that people are supposed to avoid doing right now.
How do you play a GPS-based game when you can’t leave home?
Fortunately, the Wizards Unite team has a solution and its based in a clever bit of in-universe fiction: the Knight Bus,...
Continue reading…
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