An Inside Look at Hogwarts Legacy Unreal Engine Extensions | GDC 2024

Get an inside look at how Avalanche Software extended Unreal Engine to deliver an open world, cinematic storytelling game experience in Hogwarts Legacy. From developer experience tools, to mission editor workflows, character technologies, and cinematics storytelling editor extensions, you will get a glimpse of how the Hogwarts Legacy team embraced the Unreal Engine and extended it to achieve its game design goals and end-user gamer experience.

[Bloodline]

I enjoyed every minute of this game. The fact that it had a 5+ year development time really showed in the finished product. So good.

[egretfx]

this is insane amount of work went in here!!!

[evanlane]

This is the content I'm interested in, for sure. There are SO many tutorials on basic skills, but very little on how to work on a production project that's scalable.

[CyberWolf]

Amazing work by the devs, both the game and the tools.

Interesting how they made new editor windows for cinematics, that include the game preview and the level editor preview

[thetrauth]

incredible, I hope we get more game break downs like this

[krishnamakesgames]

Each of these sections could be a full talk on their own! This is phenomenal work - please show us more! :)

[ColeEdits]

A great GDC technical exploration of the game at its core. Top notch.

[WilliamSmith-hfum]

Hogwarts Legacy deserves UE5 with proper hardware Lumen ray tracing. It makes sense especially with all the improvements to hardware ray tracing in UE 5.4

[dekitarpg]

Playing the game in editor... A simple modder like myself can only dream. 😢

[CGSky]

These tools look great! Especially the storytelling tools look really useful to reduce overhead and keep iteration times low.

[hojatghasemi]

The most beautiful tech talk I had seen in a very long time . Thanks guys! ♥♥

[maxulic]

16:07 I love how the points of view are represented by a movie camera. It really looks like directing a scene.

[stefanospanagiotidis]

As an unreal engine developer, I can only imagine the countless amount of hours put into only the creation of these tools. An amazing game overall!

[Desmond-Dark]

YES EPIC YES! This is the type of advanced stuff I want to see. I love how little time is wasted and how fast the guy talks.

[RobinsonV]

Imagine this game getting a upgrade or a part 2 made in UE5.4 🫨

[Copa]

The plug-in character creator for Harry Potter would bring a lot of fame to the game if it became open source and a solo application that can export those characters in usable assets for other DCC app..

[TimTensity]

This is what making games efficiently is all about. Really good tools work here.

[IamOmar]

Awesome, and enjoyable
I hope to be part of the Avalanche studio one day ❤

[GameDevAraz]

tell us how you made the capes move smoothly, sh t sucks in unreal

[levs]

Awesome work. Thank you for sharing this session