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Tower Ruins
Ancient Magic Hotspot in the Feldcroft Region
The Context
While working on Hogwarts Legacy, I was part of the Overlands team, fleshing out the optional open world content. As part of this, I was tasked with creating a few different ancient magic hotspots, puzzle locations where the player activates a central hub spot and then must gather three different pickups to expand their ancient magic meter.
My central idea for this ancient magic puzzle was the player interacting in various ways with a tower. The tower also acts as a draw from far away.
After dispatching a few fairly easy goblins for pacing, the player can activate the central hub.
I designed this puzzle to be fairly linear, and I wanted to encourage the player to stay on foot for it, so I put the first pickup fairly close.
After scaling the scaffolding, the player can climb up a ledge to reach the 2nd pickup on this balcony.
To get the last pickup, I added a set of boards and a wooden platform with some loot to encourage the player up to this spot. Then by using a spell to shoot down this suspended set of crates, they can leap across to get the third pickup.