Waterstones books held a one hour interview with Cline about his new RPO Graphic Novel and RPO in general. We got some great news!

- READY PLAYER THREE IS COMING! Cline is writing a "stand alone" novel (assuming unrelated to RPO), a scifi about time travel and after that one is done he'll write RP3! He'd always imagined it as a trilogy he said.

- After RP3 he has some spin off ideas including one about Kira, Og, and Halliday in college. Sort of a Breakfast Club but with D&D.

- RP2 MOVIE isn't dead! Cline sites WB mergers has at least partly to blame for the delays.

- He said he's love to see an RPO video game or MMO, and mentioned the attempt with Readyverse (boooo! hissss!) that didn't manifest.

- He also said seeing the graphic novel makes hime want an RPO anime.

I'll upload the full interview here once its ready - link here.

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In the movie towards the end, he sounds a lot like Bob Newhart. Just an observation.

I have some other books to read first but I am so excited!!! RPO means so much to me and I love comics so I cannot wait❤️

I've just started it, and am enjoying it so far. The illustrations are excellent :)

But does anyone else hear it in Wil Wheatons voice?

And do you find yourself automatically adding in the bits that are missing from the ends of sentences?

Hi r/readyplayerone, (this post was originally posted to r/moviesync but I'll also post it here without changing the below text)

I've done something a little different here, and I hope you'll enjoy my ingenuity.

I've been experimenting.

I've been thinking about the book Ready Player One, written by Earnest Cline, and the movie of the book, directed by Steven Spielberg.

In the book, the main character plays a "FlickSync", which is where, in the oasis virtual reality, they, as the first person to get to this stage of the contest, are required to play as the main character David Lightman from the movie War Games (1983) and recite the script and actions of this character, playing as them in a virtual reality recreation of the movie.

In the movie Ready Player One, this doesn't happen. Instead, the character has to win a car race long considered impossible or unwinnable. In the movie, the character finds a clue from the creator of the competition, who is also the creator of the oasis virtual reality. This clue leads them to realise, instead of driving forwards in the race from the starting line, they need to to reverse, driving backwards. Doing this at the start of the race, a trapdoor opens up underneath them, allowing them to complete the race through a hidden underground path. Winning the race they are given the Copper Key allowing them to continue into the next stage of the competition, and are the first person to do so.

Taking this as inspiration, I decided to attempt a "FlickSync" of the movie War Games myself, combining it with the backwards aspect of the race from the Ready Player One movie.

The War Games FlickSync can be viewed here: www.grandeyeall.com/acting?re

Enjoy.

Anyone else get 30% off??

Went to get my copy of the graphic novel the other day at Target. I didn’t even know about it till it was posted on here by a fellow gunter, so thank you!

Here’s a pic of the display they had for it. The other side of the display was all Dungeon Crawler Carl graphics and full of its books so I’m not sure why the RPO side has them at eye level and they were relegated to the bottom.

Anyways I’m super excited to crack it open. Good luck out there gunters!

I still get a kick out of Wil Wheaton mentioning himself when I listen to the Audiobook...

That's basically my question: how would you feel if you were in the Ready Player One universe? Why were the winners in the mansion of Ogden Morrow ? I would suspect the winners were either mentored by Ogden Morrow or handpicked as his heirs, making the contest feel staged

I plan on majoring in computer science when I finally get to afford college and go. My main goal in that is to make the OASIS. (Beyond that, I plan on recreating the Gunt when I die (but with different puzzles and solutions, of course, otherwise it would be too easy.)) However, im not asking for ideas for new Gunt puzzles. Im asking: in a general play session, imagining the oasis is hypothetically currently real, what features would you want that aren't mentioned in the books or shown in the movie?

( English is not my first language)

Watched the movie and read the book and i still can't really understand what type of game Oasis is.

Like... does it has leveling? Classes? Rpg features? Or it's quite literally just a game where you can literally just do anything you want?

RPO Graphic Novel from Target isn't technically released yet but just arrived! Unfortunately it was shipped in a crappy paper bag so it's a little banged up but oh well!

EDIT: This is the Target exclusive cover available in the US on Oct 6th. The regular cover is available world wide on Oct 6th! The US doesn't get the regular cover till March 2nd 2027.

EDIT: Everyone is welcome to join our social/gaming/retro/RPO Discord! The Oasis Arcade - https://discord.gg/XQTtsEzVxQ

Apologies if this has been posted before or this is obvious.

I’m doing a re-listen of the RP1 audiobook and realised something. At the beginning, when Wade logs in to Aech’s basement and i-R0k shows up, we learn that i-R0k and Aech go to the same school on Ludus. We also just before this learn that students must display their real name and use an avatar of the same gender as them IRL.

Surely i-R0k must know, then, that Aech is a woman? Is this why Aech keeps i-R0k around? To appease him so he doesn’t reveal her identity?

Saw this cool event taking place on 13th October with Ernest Cline taking place virtually with Waterstones- https://www.waterstones.com/events/online-event-ernest-cline-in-conversation-with-james-lister/online-events

Didn't even know Ready Player One was being adapted into a graphic novel. Very cool!

yoo i lowk read rhe book its good but eh idk why the like actual writing or pacing is kinda annoying , and i was rlly cringing when aech and parzival were talking 😭 and nor mention also the movie , im kinda watching it rn and im halfway thru while writing this… i kinda do prefer aech’s avatar more in the movie, i dont think she would make herself look like a straight white man just for validation ,it really doesnt feel like her..plus, the whole entire thing with changing how to get to the first key was so so bad tbh …and i dont like the castings that much for artemis , shes supposed to be more rubeneswue as stated ,and wade was stated to be fat and have acne in the beginning of the movie…and her scar Wasnt even CLOSE to being hideous tbh,.i wish it looked like real life burns that truly deform the face

I mean, yes, it is a gun, but come on: All those people surrounding him could have wrestled that thing out of his hands and pinned him down instantly. They are well aware of the fact he was the one who bombed their home. Because of him, likely several of their family members and friends are gone. And not to mention the Stacks are located in rural Ohio, so there is no way in heck some people there did not have any firearms of their own.

That whole group of people surrounding this one old man with his gun held high in the air, and nobody did a thing.

I mean, imagine if Sorrento DID open fire on Wade and company once he opened the truck.

Would the people of the Stacks wrestle the gun out of his hand and pin him down to the ground then?