Opening Moves

The Gam3, Book 1

By: Cosimo Yap

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

The Earth is changing. The alien invasion brought social upheaval, advanced technology, and an armada of peacekeeping robots. But Alan, a college student pursuing a now-useless degree, cares little about all of this. He has only one thing on his mind: the Game.

A fully immersive virtual reality, the Game appears to be a major part of the invading civilization. Alan can't wait to play, recklessly diving into the digital universe. Soon though, Alan realizes the Game is anything but simple, and the stakes are higher than he ever imagined.

©2016 Cosimo Yap (P)2016 Podium Publishing

Refreshing LITRPG

I love the LITRPG genre, having read Ready Player One, Alterworld, Awaken Online, and all are very good. But The Gam3 is a bit different. First and most obvious is the setting, more sci-fi in nature than fantasy based. There are still some fantasy based aspects but the sci-fi inclusion opens up some very interesting story lines and abilities for the characters. It works. Secondly is the massiveness of the RPG world, it's big.....really big. I'll let you find that out on your own.

The back story of the alien rpg world, the politics and interactions of the different alien races is unique and fascinating. It really adds a nice touch to the genre. This is a very good start to what I expect will be an epic tale.

The characters are well written and interesting while Nick Podehl does an excellent job bringing them to life. I finished this book in 2 days, easily wanting more when finished.

Nice job Mr. Yap, I look forward to more.

Hope you enjoy as much as I did.

Ready player one meets wizard scout saga

Fantastic story. Nick does great narration as usual. Cannot wait until more books are released. A new favorite of RPG-Lit

Must download if you like Ready Player One

I'm going to make this pretty easy if you enjoyed Enders games or ready player one This is your book it's different from ultra world I think it's a more up graded version and makes a lot more sense and it also has the potential for the series to expand because you still have the real world and you still have the virtual world coexisting. I'm excited for this series!

It's a good book, but not great.

It handles the cyber punk theme better than most. But runs into the same issues of most RPG/books. And that is it's meant to be read, the leveling up, is talked through and often. I found myself zoning out as lots of useless info was rattled off to me.

Mix together ready player one and fear the sky

This is a mix of many books and story lines alien takeover, virtual world/game and unlikely hero. If you like that stuff it's pretty good.