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GDC 2013: Joe Dever's Lone Wolf Gamebooks Straddle Reading and 3D Gaming

Here's a promising new hybrid of gamebook adventure and 3D video gaming fun for your iPad.

GDC 2013: Joe Dever's Lone Wolf Gamebooks Straddle Reading and 3D Gaming
By Rob LeFebvre
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One of the cool things about coming to GDC is seeing the upcoming games with a ton of potential even before they're available in the App Store. Forge Reply Games, from Italy, showed off its in-production, early-alpha game based on the work of Joe Dever, the author of the successful series of young adult gamebook adventure novels (Lone Wolfin the 1980s. Dever is writing a new sgtory for this one, and it includes more than just reading and dice rolling, with puzzles to solve and turn-based combat in full 3D rounding out the package. Forge REply's Alessandro Mazzega told us that they were looking for a publisher for the final push to finish and market the game, hopefully this year. Keep an eye on this one; we surely will.

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Rob LeFebvre
Rob LeFebvre
Dad. Mac head. Ukulele nerd. Gamer. Rob lives in Anchorage, Alaska, and commutes daily to the intarwebs to edit and write about iOS, Mac, books, and video games. He is currently employed as the editor at 148Apps, the best gosh-darn iPhone site this side of Mars, and contributes freelance to various other sites, including Cult of Mac and VentureBeat. Somehow he still finds time to play in a Disco band, raise two amazing kids, and hang on to his day job.