Fan unable to wait for Hogwarts Legacy release date makes it themself

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With the Hogwarts Legacy release date now set for next year, after the recent release date delay, a young developer and Harry Potter fan has taken it upon themselves to remake the upcoming RPG game in the Unity engine to help them learn more about game development.

While this fan version of Hogwarts Legacy will never be released to the public, indie developer Arnie has been making it to help hone their craft, and it looks like a lot of fun. For the avoidance of doubt, this doesn’t have anything to do with Avalanche Studios’ game, with Arnie even calling their game “Henwarts Legacy” to be safe.

The open-world game uses an imported Hogwarts castle and a series of Unity assets and plug-ins to help create the landscape and Wizard-related architecture, with Arnie even creating gameplay mechanics and magic spells to go along with it.

Some of the spells in the Hogwarts Legacy fan-game are quite simple, like a spell that illuminates your wand in dark areas, or another that levitates objects for a brief time. On the more wacky end though, Arnie created a spell that turns an object into a chicken, and another that lets you then capture the chicken.

The second half of Arnie’s Hogwarts Legacy video is filled with cinematic footage and gameplay, which really hammers home the amount of effort put into creating the fan-game. There’s the covered bridge, the moving staircases, and even Hagrid. Robbie Coltrane doesn’t reprise his role, but the text-to-speech works just as well.

Of course this project isn’t as ambitious as the official Hogwarts Legacy, but the commitment to making a Harry Potter world and relevant game mechanics is certainly admirable, and sure to fill the wait for the Hogwarts Legacy release date.

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