Harry Potter Game Pitch From Saints Row Dev Didn't Work, Even Though They Brought Owls

Saints Row developer Volition, which shuttered in 2023, was developing a Harry Potter game, or at least a pitch for one, and now the first details and images from the project have emerged.GamesRadar learned about the game and saw images of it at The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York recently. The report said developers at Volition, having been big fans of the books, assembled a demo for a Harry Potter game in 1999. This was before the first movie came out in 2001, so the developers created their own ideas for what some of the characters might look like. It's also worth mentioning that Volition at the time was known as Parallax Software Corporation.The demo included a sequence where Hagrid and Harry Potter are walking around a cobblestone area, with players able to switch between both characters in a top-down RPG setup. The demo doesn't include much in the way of activities, and that's because, Strong Museum's Andrew Borman said, Volition made it in a couple of weeks to pitch to the rights-holders. You can see images of the game at GamesRadar.Continue Reading at GameSpot

May 15, 2025 - 16:16

Harry Potter Game Pitch From Saints Row Dev Didn't Work, Even Though They Brought Owls

Saints Row developer Volition, which shuttered in 2023, was developing a Harry Potter game, or at least a pitch for one, and now the first details and images from the project have emerged.

GamesRadar learned about the game and saw images of it at The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York recently. The report said developers at Volition, having been big fans of the books, assembled a demo for a Harry Potter game in 1999. This was before the first movie came out in 2001, so the developers created their own ideas for what some of the characters might look like. It's also worth mentioning that Volition at the time was known as Parallax Software Corporation.

The demo included a sequence where Hagrid and Harry Potter are walking around a cobblestone area, with players able to switch between both characters in a top-down RPG setup. The demo doesn't include much in the way of activities, and that's because, Strong Museum's Andrew Borman said, Volition made it in a couple of weeks to pitch to the rights-holders. You can see images of the game at GamesRadar.Continue Reading at GameSpot