If you can’t get your kids to read books, you might at least be able to get them to play games based on books when Codemasters launches its games based on the popular ‘Ology book series. The developer announced Friday that it had secured the proper licensing rights and would produce two games based on three of the books in the series.
Dragonology, Wizardology and Pirateology are owned by UK-based Templar Publishing, and printed in the U.S. by Candlewick Press. They feature encyclopedic content about their subjects and paper-engineered extras like fold-outs and maps. Codemasters will produce an action game for each title on Nintendo Wii, and a version for the Nintendo DS that focuses on explorative gameplay.
The first game in the series will be based on Dragonology, which was first published in book form in 2003 and has sold 5.7 million copies. Codemasters expects the Dragonology games to be finished by spring 2008.
