Writing by J K Rowling on Imgur ( Daily Prophet coverage of the 2014 Quidditch World Cup, originally from Pottermore): The most prestigious broom at the time of Harry's first year as Seeker, was the Nimbus 2000, which is beautifully represented in this tattoo! But jumping — and hopefully throwing the Quaffle — through those hoops just might be worth it, because the best way to describe the experience of Seeker VR is that it's magical. While there have been other Harry Potter games, a VR version feels special because of its ability to transport you inside the world, where you become an active participant. AKA a wizard. I played around with words beginning with 'Q' for ages I don't know why 'Q', it was just a whim and then I came up with Quidditch and knew it was the one" ( CR). The Snitch ruins Quidditch. It’s an absolutely pointless game mechanic that’s only in the books to make Harry look good. Oh, Harry, you’re so fast on that broom, you were able to catch the Snitch before that mean old Slytherin! You won the game singlehandedly, Harry Potter, gosh gee aren’t you just the bees knees!

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Not only is this a rather garish way to make your protagonist look good, it makes the rest of the game totally irrelevant. Who cares about the quaffle? Why even bother with goalies and beaters and all the other Seussian bits and bobbles that comprise a Quidditch match? Just have two seekers chase a Snitch around until one of them catches it and call it a day. That’s all Quidditch really is. The rest is window-dressing. The tattoo shown here pays tribute to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry along with the iconic sport played there. This tattoo is simple and minimalistic and is the perfect tribute to the sport that Harry loved. This tattoo is a fun illustration of the Golden Snitch that any fan will definitely appreciate. The work of art, completed by Brittany Mater, is a fun portrayal of the Quaffle going into the hoops, which, of course, is what gains each team points.

This tattoo pays tribute to this magical sport as well as to another important element of the Harry Potter series. This tattoo shows a perfect illustration of the Golden Snitch, as well as an illustration of the symbol for the Deathly Hallows. The Quidditch fields and their famous towers and hoops are something that every fan of this series easily recognizes. This part of the Hogwarts grounds is perfectly portrayed in this cute and colorful tattoo. Cut it out entirely. Excise it. Make the Seeker the equivalent of a point guard. They’d play out front. They’re the fastest and best at lobbing the Quaffle through the Whatsit-thingy. Natural leader and all that. Harry could still be Very Good At Brooming. He could still Score The Winning Point. And we could all enjoy a fictional wizarding sport that actually makes sense.

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Multiplayer gameplay probably isn't in the cards for Seeker VR — it would require overhauling the game with even more advanced coding, and server hosting costs would be prohibitively expensive. But Team Eldritch is still working, and he said that playing with a virtual team against some AI opponents is more likely. Quidditch falls under the jurisdiction of the Department of Magical Games and Sports, part of the Ministry of Magic ( GF3, GF5, OP7, QA5, QA6). The professional organization is called the International Association of Quidditch ( GF8). Professional matches are attended by trained mediwizards and while there are many injuries, there are few deaths from Quidditch accidents. However, referees have been known to disappear completely only to turn up weeks later in the middle of the Sahara. There are seven hundred possible ways to commit a foul in Quidditch, all of which occurred in a Quidditch World Cup match held in 1473 ( PS11, QA6, QWC).Extracting 3D assets from a 15-year-old game built on a closed-source engine isn’t easy," Team Eldritch said. "It took me a month and a half just to finish putting together the exterior of the castle. But it was absolutely worth it, because the detail the artists at Bright Light achieved was phenomenal."

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Instead, anyone with enough technical know-how can find games that are experimental or still in development by using alternate content libraries and installation mechanisms. This is a practice called "sideloading." Some tech platforms — notably Apple— take a hard stance against sideloading. But it's ok on Facebook's Oculus for now, as long as you enable "Developer Mode," which requires confirming your identity with a credit code or phone number. During the game a player can get a penalty for fouling (breaking a rule). Some fouls that a player can receive are: blagging (applies to all players, it is when a player seizes opponent’s broom tail to slow or hinder), blatching (applies to all players, it is when a person is flying with the intent to collide), bumphing (applies to beaters only, it is when a Beater is hitting a Bludger towards the crowd, necessitating a halt of the game as the officials rush to protect bystanders – sometimes used by unscrupulous players to prevent an opposing Chaser from scoring) ( QA6).You can look down and actually feel it. What it’d be like to fly up there. It’s the closest I’ve ever felt to real magic." I invented the game of Quidditch after a huge row with the boyfriend I lived with in Manchester. I stormed out of the house, went to the pub - and invented Quidditch" ( Scot, 2002). They’re essentially mini-AIs," Team Eldritch said of the Quidditch balls. "Finally managing to code a Bludger that was capable of homing in on you, firing itself at your head and whizzing off again was a very proud moment." In terms of actual gameplay, Seeker VR is mostly a demo right now. When you fire it up, you'll go through a 10-minute tutorial that mimics Harry's first Quidditch lesson, when then-Gryffindor Quidditch team captain Oliver Wood explains the rules: Team Eldritch even hired an actor to voice the demo, and he uses a very Oliver Wood-esque accent. Quidditch is a name I invented. I just wanted a word which began with the letter 'Q' (I don't know why, it was just a whim)" ( AOL).

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Mashable is a registered trademark of Ziff Davis and may not be used by third parties without express written permission. The Hogwarts castle was incredibly important to this series and is where Harry Potter spent most of his time. This tattoo is the perfect representation of the castle and the Quidditch fields that were such a famous part of the school grounds. Another element that makes the game feel real is sound. Team Eldritch himself "voiced" the spitting and hissing Bludgers, but the tech that powers Quest experiences allowed him to go much further. Oculus supports an "open source spatial audio plugin" that lets developers play to the way our brains process sound in three dimensions.When asked if it was based on a real game: "Completely new. In America they say it’s a game like soccer, and if you've ever seen a game of football anything like Quidditch then ... um ... no, I just made it up. I always want to see a game where there were four balls in play at once .. or more than one ball in play, I just thought it would be funny ... and violent and it is and so it just loads of fun to write and that's probably the thing in the film I'm most looking forward to seeing, because I've been watching this inside my head for so long" ( BP).