{"id":3050,"date":"2021-02-22T17:02:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T16:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joedeveraward.com\/joe-dever\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T15:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:28:16","slug":"joe-dever","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joedeveraward.com\/en\/joe-dever\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Dever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group container\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading underline my-5\">Joe<br>Dever<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>\u201c<em>Lucca is a big part of my life<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what Joe Dever wrote when announcing that he could not physically participate, for health reasons, in the 2016 edition of Lucca Comics &amp; Games.\u00a0But the Master of Lone Wolf was still among us that year, and in all the years that followed, because he had become part of the festival&#8217;s life, more than perhaps he could ever have imagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brilliant writer, lively wit and revolutionary game designer, Joe Dever has indeed changed our view on world-narrative; the saga that brought him international fame has indelibly marked the way in which we are now passionate about fantasy and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLucca is a big part of my life\u201d he said back in 2015, when he received the Lifetime Achievement Award and left his handprints in our Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added: \u201cI&#8217;m glad that now I\u2019ve become a part of its story.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Dever was one of the most eminent figures in the world of modern fantasy: creator of Lone Wolf (in Italy: Lupo Solitario), prolific writer and game designer, he brought gamebooks back in vogue, and added a video game, role-playing game and other cross-media content to the universe dedicated to his character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was one of the first authors to understand how stories could complement each other on different platforms.\u00a0A great friend of the festival, Lucca Comics &amp; Games and the Dever family are proud to promote the Joe Dever Award.<br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[Lucca Comics &amp; Games ] Joe Dever Tribute\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1uWHs6k5G9I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JoeDever \u201cLucca is a big part of my life\u201d This is what Joe Dever wrote when announcing that he could&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-cyan btn-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/joedeveraward.com\/en\/joe-dever\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/empty.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3050","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joedeveraward.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joedeveraward.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joedeveraward.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joedeveraward.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joedeveraward.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/joedeveraward.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3066,"href":"https:\/\/joedeveraward.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3050\/revisions\/3066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joedeveraward.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}