When I used to work at Broderbund (Carmen Sandiego, etc.) I remember seeing Sorceror's Stone on the NYT bestseller shelves at Crown Books. I was curious so I picked it up.Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 4:27 pm I could see a Harry Potter MMO. Attend classes to learn stuff. get your first wand. Solves quests and mysteries in both the magic world and the muggles. Play with friends as wizards..hell ya. I couldn't watch the entire video...it was making me drool for this game and i have neither the money nor the hardware to play it in its glory.
Seems you guys should all go get it now..run!
Read it twice that night, I enjoyed it so much (even went looking for book 2, found out it was released in the UK, but months away from a US release, so I ordered it from Amazon UK and have the UK version ).
When I went to work the next day, I hunted up the person in charge of product/rights acquisition, left her a copy and said we HAVE to get the rights to do educational software based on this.
Unfortunately, that was right with Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary was in the middle of single-handedly gutting Broderbund, the Learning Company, Mindscape and the entire educational software industry for decades and it never happened (heck, we never got another Carmen game, etc.). Most of our coworkers had already been laid off, and were hired back on temp jobs to get product out before Christmas, and both of us could see the writing on the wall and left shortly thereafter.
I still wish we could have done that - HP for real educational software would have been great (we did a lot of really fun educational games), and 25 years later I'm still pissed at that weasel O'Leary.