![]() ![]() ![]() He had previously written “ World War Z,” the best-selling 2006 zombie novel that was loosely adapted into a Brad Pitt movie. ![]() Authors, too.īrooks was both an obvious and an unusual choice for a novelization. There is an often ignored way to “win” Minecraft, but for most players the game is more a world to invent. In most iterations, Minecraft players enter a Lego-like universe where they must learn how to shelter and feed themselves, marshal resources, build stuff, and otherwise survive while coping with nightly mobs of zombies, skeletons, and other bad actors. You wouldn’t call these novels of ideas, probably, but that’s what the Swedish gaming company Mojang got, in 2016, when it approved Max Brooks to write a book based on Minecraft, widely considered the best-selling video game of all time. Assassin’s Creed, Halo, Donkey Kong Country-all have been rendered in what technically counts as prose. Though not as venerable as novels based on movies, novelizations of video games have been a sturdy publishing genre for decades. ![]()
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