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Harry the Magical: Harry and the Orden
Author	C.M. Gilles
Filename	harrypoker.zip
Year	2008
Position	85
Format	ZX Spectrum 48K
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Description	Surely a treat for all fans of truly crap games and I'm sure it may pique the curiosity of Harry Potter fans and maybe even poker fans alike. The author tells me that part of this game in the Harry the Magical game series is in fact based on poker, but that he does not know how to write a poker algorithm. Hence it has been entered into the CGC. A colleague of mine managed to get into the poker sub-game after playing for a little while, by talking to the dude in the top right. The game appears to have MIA status in the WoS archives. Some source code files included. Hint: Run the file harrypoker.sna. This game is completely free, but the author welcomes any donations - further details in the accompanying docs.
Comments	I could be mistaken, but this has the look and feel of one of those I already made a game and I might as well send it in to the CGC type of submissions. Nothing wrong with that, in fact it was welcomed in 2008 and quite a few entrants took this approach (even did it myself in 2007). You can play poker in it, but apparently it is not implemented correctly. So that's at least partially crap, but the rest of game plays a little too good. It's a top-down view - a similar mechanism to Zelda series on the gameboy. Clearly also this one is firmly in the RPG genre, with what I'm guessing are Hit Points and Magic Points displayed on the screen. I walked up a very long corridor whereupon I entered into a duel and won it, although I don't know exactly how. As a first time player, I found the game a little confusing as to what was the right thing to do, but I'm certainly no RPG expert!