Maslin, Janet (August 14, 2011). " 'Ready Player One' by Ernest Cline – Review". The New York Times. Contest Winners Level Up In The Ready Player One Easter Egg Hunt | Giant Freakin RobotGiant Freakin Robot". www.giantfreakinrobot.com. July 11, 2012 . Retrieved September 5, 2018. Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Sex, Romance & Nudity in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close

Couch, Aaron (July 8, 2020). " 'Ready Player One' Book Sequel Sets November Publishing Date". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved July 8, 2020. The OASIS is shaped like a Rubik’s Cube, with 27 cubed “sectors.” Travelling across one sector at the speed of light is expensive and takes 10 hours. Avatars can gain experience points—XPs—by completing quests and fighting NPC villains. However, these don’t exist on Ludus. With difficulty Wade has managed to raise his avatar to the third level by briefly hitching rides to other planets and earning XPs there; however, no gunter is considered serious until they reach the tenth level. The protagonist, Wade Watts, spends a lot of time hiding his location and true identity. How do his precautions compare to the strategies you use to work online safely? Wade is the embodiment of me as a teenager,” Cline admits. “The structure of Ready Player One was a fun way for me to take all of the useless movie and video-game trivia you amass if you’re a geek and somehow make it valuable – the key to a vast fortune, which it has proven to be for me.”

a b "How Lord British Inspired Anorak | Ernie's Blog". Ernestcline.com. October 19, 2011 . Retrieved July 7, 2012. Nolan Sorrento a.k.a. IOI-655321: The head of operations at Innovative Online Industries (IOI), the multinational corporation that serves as an Internet service provider for most of the world. Cline said that he named Sorrento after Nolan Bushnell, founder of the video game company Atari and said "Not that I think Nolan is a bad guy or anything. It’s meant as a subtle tribute!" [14] They're not eggs in your typical sense of the word. He's looking for Easter Eggs within the programming. (Again... Not those types of Easter eggs.) It was left inside the virtual world by OASIS's creator and whoever finds it inherits a massive fortune. Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Language in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close

Samantha Cook a.k.a. Art3mis: A famous female gunter and blogger. She chose her avatar's name from the Greek goddess of the hunt. [b] Like other characters, Cline based Art3mis on himself and other geeks, both men, and women. [11] What are the advantages and the disadvantages of having so much information available 24/7? How might near-ubiquitous social media affect our culture?Ernest Cline’s science fiction novel looks at a world where living in a virtual reality game, the OASIS, is better than real life. The protagonist, Wade Watts, is a teenager with no parents, prospects, or future. The novel focuses on the battle for the late James Halliday’s Easter egg, which is hidden within the OASIS and can only be found by solving a number of clues. Wade becomes the first "gunter" (Egg Hunter) to find the First Key, and his life is changed overnight. He must face evil, embodied in the company IOI and its corporate soldiers, the Sixers. He makes allies with other gunters, particularly Art3mis, Aech, and Shoto. Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, set in a dystopia in 2045, follows protagonist Wade Watts on his search for an Easter egg in a worldwide virtual reality game, the discovery of which would lead him to inherit the game creator's fortune. Cline sold the rights to publish the novel in June 2010, in a bidding war to the Crown Publishing Group (a division of Random House). [1] The book was published on August 16, 2011. [2] An audiobook was released the same day; it was narrated by Wil Wheaton, who was mentioned briefly in one of the chapters. [3] [4] Ch. 20 In 2012, the book received an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association [5] and won the 2011 Prometheus Award. [6] The Sixers are now in possession of an artifact called Fyndoro’s Tablet of Finding, which will help them with the Hunt. Wade flies his starship, the Vonnegut, to a planet named Archaide, which is a museum of old arcade games. To his surprise, Wade finds a recreation of Happytime Pizza, a pizza place Halliday frequented as a child. Inside, there is a Pac-Man machine, which Wade realizes contains another Easter egg. However, while he is playing, he sees that Aech has overtaken him on the scoreboard. Wade manages to get the new high score on Pac-Man, and at the same moment receives a message from Aech with a clue that leads him to the Jade Key, which is situated on a nearby planet called Frobozz. Wade successfully locates the key and narrowly avoids an encounter with a group of Sixers. The violent clashes between gunters and Sixers that ensues is known as the Battle of Frobozz. During the action, Shoto finds the key, but in almost the same moment, Daito is killed. Common Sense is the nation's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of all kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the 21st century.