Alan can’t wait to play, recklessly diving into the digital universe. He has only one thing on his mind: the Game.Ī fully immersive virtual reality, the Game appears to be a major part of the invading civilization. But Alan, a college student pursuing a now-useless degree, cares little about all of this. The alien invasion brought social upheaval, advanced technology, and an armada of peacekeeping robots. Opening Moves (The Gam3 Book 1) by Cosimo YapĪmazon Description: The Earth is changing. These books may not be everyones cup of tea but I would encourage you to give the Gam3 and Ascend Online a try. There are also several groups on Facebook you can join with the biggest being the LitRPG group started by Aleron Kong, author of The Land (The “self-titled” Father of American LitRPG), and the GameLit Society started by Blaise Corvin, author of Delvers LLC (The voted God-Emperor of LitRPG). If you are confused about my explanation of what this genre is take a look at Ramon’s website where he goes over the genre, and has podcasts where he goes over the latest novels released on Amazon. Having been an avid gamer I have really been getting into this genre.

These books started in Korea with a light novel named Legendary Moonlight Sculptor, became really big in Russia (which is why Russian authors have their own page), and then in 2015 started to become a thing among indie authors on Amazon with A Dragons Wrath and The Land. GameLit or LitRPG are books that usually involve some sort of virtual reality game, usually a massively multiplayer online game (MMO), that the main character becomes trapped in, or that becomes so popular that gold from the game becomes legal tender, or involves people from Earth being transported to another world where MMO mechanics are the norm, or perhaps a game “System” comes online on planet Earth and we all have to survive waves of monster that appear.

Opening Moves by Cosimo Yap