Joe Dever
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Joe Dever (b. 1956, Chingford (northeast London), England) is an award-winning British fantasist and game designer, best known as the author of the internationally popular Lone Wolf series of young-adult gamebooks. The Lone Wolf gamebooks, set in the fantasy world of Magnamund, have been published in over 30 countries, translated into 18 languages, and have sold in excess of 9 million copies worldwide since 1984. In addition to Lone Wolf, he has also created two other role-playing gamebook series (Freeway Warrior and Combat Heroes) and designed several best-selling computer and video games for PCs and consoles.
In 1982, Dever won the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons World Championships in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Project Aon is a non-profit prganization that publishes some of Dever's books on the internet.
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Lone Wolf
- Lone Wolf 1 - Flight from the Dark (1984)
- Lone Wolf 2 - Fire on the Water (1984)
- Lone Wolf 3 - The Caverns of Kalte (1984)
- Lone Wolf 4 - The Chasm of Doom (1985)
- Lone Wolf 5 - Shadow on the Sand (1985)
- Lone Wolf 6 - The Kingdoms of Terror (1985)
- Lone Wolf 7 - Castle Death (1986)
- Lone Wolf 8 - The Jungle of Horrors (1987)
- Lone Wolf 9 - The Cauldron of Fear (1987)
- Lone Wolf 10 - The Dungeons of Torgar (1987)
- Lone Wolf 11 - The Prisoners of Time (1987)
- Lone Wolf 12 - The Masters of Darkness (1988)
- Lone Wolf 13 - The Plague Lords of Ruel (1990)
- Lone Wolf 14 - The Captives of Kaag (1990)
- Lone Wolf 15 - The Darke Crusade (1991)
- Lone Wolf 16 - The Legacy of Vashna (1991)
- Lone Wolf 17 - The Deathlord of Ixia (1992)
- Lone Wolf 18 - Dawn of the Dragons (1992)
- Lone Wolf 19 - Wolf's Bane (1993)
- Lone Wolf 20 - The Curse of Naar (1993)
- Lone Wolf 21 - Voyage of the Moonstone (1994)
- Lone Wolf 22 - The Buccaneers of Shadaki (1995)
- Lone Wolf 23 - Mydnight's Hero (1995)
- Lone Wolf 24 - Rune War (1996)
- Lone Wolf 25 - Trail of the Wolf (1996)
- Lone Wolf 26 - The Fall of Blood Mountain (1997)
- Lone Wolf 27 - Vampirium (1997)
- Lone Wolf 28 - The Hunger of Sejanoz (1998)
Only the first 20 were available in the United States; the last 8 were never reprinted.
Companion Book
- The Magnamund Companion (1986)
Freeway Warrior
- Freeway Warrior 1: Highway Holocaust (1988)
- Freeway Warrior 2: Slaughter Mountain Run (1989)
- Freeway Warrior 3: The Omega Zone (1989)
- Freeway Warrior 4: California Countdown (1989)
The Freeway Warrior series of gamebooks are set in a post-apocalyptic, Mad Max-like world.
Combat Heroes
- Combat Heroes 1: White Warlord (1986)
- Combat Heroes 1: Black Baron (1986)
- Combat Heroes 2: Scarlet Sorcerer (1987)
- Combat Heroes 2: Emerald Enchanter (1987)
The Combat Heroes gaebooks are illustrated adventures. Each paragraph is a full-page picture representing what the character sees, with two modes. Alone, the aim is to escape from a maze. In one-on-one play, two characters duelling in a maze, each player having a different book ; at a given page, the illustration shows an empty corridor; when the other character is in sight (i.e. the player read given page numbers), the player has to turn to another page showing the other character in the corridor. Combat is then resolved before the game continues.
Grey Star
- Grey Star 1: Grey Star the Wizard (1985)
- Grey Star 2: The Forbidden City (1985)
- Grey Star 3: Beyond the Nightmare Gate (1986)
- Grey Star 4: War of the Wizards (1986)
The Grey Star series co-authored with Ian Page.
Legends of Lone Wolf
- Legends of Lone Wolf 1: Eclipse of the Kai (1989)
- Legends of Lone Wolf 2: The Dark Door Opens (1989)
- Legends of Lone Wolf 3: Sword of the Sun (1989)
- Legends of Lone Wolf 4: Hunting Wolf (1990)
- Legends of Lone Wolf 5: The Claws of Helgedad (1991)
- Legends of Lone Wolf 6: The Sacrifice of Ruanon (1991)
- Legends of Lone Wolf 7: The Birthplace (1992)
- Legends of Lone Wolf 8: The Book of the Magnakai (1992)
- Legends of Lone Wolf 9: The Tellings (1993)
- Legends of Lone Wolf 10: The Lorestone of Varetta (1993)
- Legends of Lone Wolf 11: The Secret of Kazan-Oud (1994)
- Legends of Lone Wolf 12: The Rotting Land (1994)
The Legends of Lone Wolf series co-authored with John Grant.
Only the first four were available in the United States (though Sword of the Sun was divided into two separate volumes, The Tides of Treachery and Sword of the Sun).
Graphic novels
"PhoneQuest" Interactive Telephone Adventures
- Lone Wolf: The Forbidden Tower (1989)
- Alien Intruder (1990)
- Ninja (1990)
- Tomb of the Sphinx (1990)
- Vampire Hunter (1990)
- Lone Wolf: The Fortress of Doom (1991)
Lone Wolf Audiobooks
- Eclipse of the Kai (1992)
- The Dark Door Opens (1993)
Computer and video game design
- E-Scape (1996)
- Corazon (1997)
- In Cold Blood (1998)
- Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy (1999)
- Flaklypa Grand Prix (2000)
- Flying Circus (2000)
- Wheelie (2001)
- Top Down (2001)
- Desert Gunner (2001)
- Speedboat Racer (2001)
- RVO Mech (2001)
- Ground Control II (2003)
- Killzone (2004)
- 2 Fast 2 Furious (2004)fr:Joe Dever