The Paper Republic
From the novel by Oliver Marsh
The game we see here
In a world made of paper, rain is the enemy. Fold yourself into a crane, a frog or a boat to cross the wilds and gather paper, then race home before the storm. When the rain arrives, your team folds gutters and channels across the city to steer the water away from the houses that cannot get wet.
Why this world
Wave-based defense and co-op survival rounds are proven patterns on the platforms we build for, and this book supplies both the threat and the toolkit. Rain dissolves the paper everything is made of, so every storm is a real test. The hero's folds are a ready set of abilities: a crane to fly, a boat to carry friends, a frog to leap, a paper plane to glide and a channel to redirect water. The book ends with the city rebuilt to carry rain away and a promise that the storms will return.
The book · Fantasy & Mythology
Dawn unfolds over Foldtown like a pop-up book opening its pages. Bakers knead tissue-paper dough, origami pigeons coo from cardstock ledges, and in the Margins — where the houses are simple two-fold shelters and the people are thin newsprint or unbleached brown — a twelve-year-old boy named Kai walks to school past displays of preserved patterns he will never share.
Kai is blank. In a Republic where every citizen carries print, pigment, or pressed-flower fibers as their birthright, he is unmarked paper, a page no story has touched. His mother's delicate washi is fading at her edges. The wealthy children laugh. He is, in the language of his world, illegible.
Then the Weather Bureau's barometer curls tight as a watch spring. A once-in-a-century rain is coming, and the Magistrate's Umbrella Protocol will shelter only the inner districts. On a rooftop under a foil moon, frightened and furious, Kai discovers that his blankness is not absence but possibility: he can fold himself. A crane. A wing. Shapes that grant him flight, and other things besides.
To save his mother and the Margins, he will need to find the Lacquer Spring his mother once described as a fairy tale, and to fold himself into a shape that has never been folded before — something the First Fold did not imagine, something that can survive water.
Games set in this world
Game adaptation is considered per title when the world-building can support it. Pitching is the first step; it is not a licence. See rights at Greenlight Publishing.