Poll of the Day > Joe Dever, author of the Lone Wolf gamebooks, has died

(+) Yeah! (+)

Actually, he died around 8 months ago, but I only just heard about it.

https://www.projectaon.org/en/blog/2016/11/bearing-sad-news/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Dever

How sad; he was only 60. I thought the Lone Wolf books were a great variation on standard CYOA books because you could try to get through them with different starting skill sets while still hitting your favorite parts of the stories. That said, starting with book 13, it got a bit silly how powerful the regular enemies had to be to keep up with your powers, and the books started to fall into the rut of having to stop one random powerful villain after another. The first 12 books formed a nice mostly-continuous story, though.

I wasn't desperately waiting for him to finish the Lone Wolf series (as you can guess by my only just having learned of his death), but I am sad he was rather young when he died.

Did you ever read any Lone Wolf books?

Was going to say, he's been dead for a while now.

There was a bit of a kerfluffle about whether or not his self-publishing company was just going to collapse now that he was dead, or if it would continue somehow, but his son is supposedly taking it over and is going to keep running it. And I think it's been mentioned that he supposedly finished writing the entire series (minus final edits and other technical tweaks), and that the last three books may come out eventually at some point.

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RIP some guy who made some thing
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*cries* ;.;

Did you ever read any Lone Wolf books?

Certainly....

How sad; he was only 60. I thought the Lone Wolf books were a great variation on standard CYOA books because you could try to get through them with different starting skill sets while still hitting your favorite parts of the stories. That said, starting with book 13, it got a bit silly how powerful the regular enemies had to be to keep up with your powers, and the books started to fall into the rut of having to stop one random powerful villain after another. The first 12 books formed a nice mostly-continuous story, though.

I completely agree. ;.;

To me, it felt like the story reached a very obvious natural conclusion point after 12;
... the majestically triumphant wording of the conclusion of 12, exhilarates me to this day ...
but somebody (the publisher perhaps?) persuaded him to keep going nonetheless. Instead of starting another (maybe similar) series, which I feel might have worked out better.
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Damn, I loved those.
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cute_fan posted...

Instead of starting another (maybe similar) series, which I feel might have worked out better.

He wrote multiple other series.

The Freeway Warrior books are probably the most "Lone Wolf"-like (just set in a Mad Max-esque future USA), but he also wrote "multiplayer" gamebooks (the "Combat Heroes" series). Neither of them really took off the way the Lone Wolf books did.


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