{"id":7164,"date":"2019-08-13T02:09:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T02:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7164"},"modified":"2019-08-13T02:10:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T02:10:14","slug":"harry-potter-wizards-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7164","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter: Wizards Unite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_5024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7166 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_5024-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_5024-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_5024-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_5024-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_5024.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been playing the augmented reality game, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrypotterwizardsunite.com\/\">Harry Potter: Wizards Unite<\/a> and rather enjoying it. It is a locative game that resembles <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ingress_(video_game)\">Ingress<\/a> and, in fact, is from the same company <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Niantic_(company)\">Niantic<\/a> which also made Pok\u00e9mon Go. It encourages you to walk around to finish daily goals and to get portkeys.<\/p>\n<p>In the game you trace spells to free people who have been confounded and you get into duels. It is free to play, but you have to buy gold with which to buy other things if you want to move the game along faster. I found that I didn&#8217;t need much gold as long as I didn&#8217;t want to play for more than an hour a day.<\/p>\n<p>The game has a Harry Potter feel with a certain amount of humour. At times I felt I was grinding and there were bugs. I liked the portkey idea which lets one see through to another space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing the augmented reality game, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and rather enjoying it. It is a locative game that resembles Ingress and, in fact, is from the same company Niantic which also made Pok\u00e9mon Go. It encourages you to walk around to finish daily goals and to get portkeys. In the game you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7164\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harry Potter: Wizards Unite<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,50,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-locative","category-mobile-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7168,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions\/7168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}