Joe Dever

Joe Dever is an award-winning British fantasist and computer game designer, author of the internationally popular Lone Wolf series of young-adult gamebooks, set in the fantasy world of Magnamund. The Lone Wolf gamebooks have been published in over 30 countries, translated into 18 languages, and have sold in excess of 9 million copies worldwide since 1984. Joe Dever was born in Chingford (north-east London, UK) in 1956. In 1982, he won the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons World Championships in Baltimore, USA. In addition to Lone Wolf, he has also created two other role-playing gamebook series and designed several best-selling computer games for PC and console.

• Freeway Warrior : gamebooks in a post-apocalytic, Mad Max-like world,
• Combat Heroes : 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 ;
  • one-on-one ; 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.

Project Aon is a non-profit making project which publishes some of Joe Dever's books on the internet.

Bibliography

• 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.

• The Magnamund Companion (1986)

• 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)

• Combat Heroes 1: White Warlord (1986)
• Combat Heroes 1: Black Baron (1986)
• Combat Heroes 2: Scarlet Sorcerer (1987)
• Combat Heroes 2: Emerald Enchanter (1987)

• 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 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).

• Lone Wolf Graphic Novel: The Skull of Agarash (1994)

"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 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)
• Too Fast Too Furious (2004)