New Light Novel “Isekai Crafter” Launches with Playable Minecraft Experiences

Erie, Pennsylvania, July 16, 2024 – Book 1 of Isekai Crafter, The Llama Glama Gang, releases today on Amazon Kindle, Audible, and as content on the Official Minecraft Marketplace. Written, illustrated, and developed by a small independent team, this zany young adult adventure aims to celebrate the magic of games like Minecraft and how they shape the people who play them.

Published by LitRPG fanatics at Aethon Books, Isekai Crafter tells the story of a high school student who retreats into manga to escape reality, but he has fallen into a crafting world. He doesn’t play crafting games, and he doesn’t have much time to learn because he is immediately tasked with solving the mystery of the Llama Glama Gang, a failed pop group who has begun stealing major artifacts from the town of Llamaldea.

“The isekai genre is known for blending video game mechanics into magical worlds,” Marshal Carper, founder of Carper Creative, the team behind the project, says. “There are a lot of isekai stories that feature things like farming and crafting, but most of them focus on RPG mechanics. Instead, we wanted to tell a story where crafting and building mechanics inspired by games like Minecraft or Terraria were central to the story and action.”

While wholesome and humorous, the story isn’t lacking in depth. The characters face internal and external challenges. They don’t always win, but they learn and grow as they use their creativity to solve problems and battle opponents.

That description extends to the Minecraft experiences that accompany Isekai Crafter, featuring a heavy dose of goofiness alongside maps and mechanics where the reader can become the main character and play alone or with friends. The My Little Llama Overhaul Add-On, for example, brings the magical llamas from the Llama Glama Gang into Minecraft where players can tame, breed, and train them, unlocking special abilities like lava-walking and recipes for stylish llama armor. 

And these experiences are built with Marketplace support in mind so players of any age on any device–from Switch to mobile to PC–can play quickly and easily.

Isekai Crafter: The Llama Glama Gang is available now in book form on Kindle and Audible. The My Little Llama Overhaul Add-On is available now on the Official Minecraft Marketplace. The adventure map for the Llama Glama Gang is expected to be released soon. 

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