Worlds

The worlds we would build in.

Not every good novel is a good game. These are the Greenlight books we have chosen for games — 10 of them: worlds with a loop players can repeat, places and people they can step into, and room to grow after launch. Each one says what kind of game it would be, where it would be built first, and why we chose it.

PlatformAll Roblox10 Fortnite8 Steam9 iOS1 Android1

First wave

The worlds we are building in, or would build in, first.

First wave · Collect robot animals and bring a damaged watershed back to life

The Rewilding

Marcus Chen · Literary Fiction

A crate of tiny solar-powered robot animals arrives at a damaged watershed. Boot them, send them into meadow, river, canopy and tidepool, and link them into a web: every connection heals the land faster. Fix one place too fast and something downstream breaks, so the crew has to watch the whole valley. After sunset, every robot has to make its charge last.

Collecting creatures in rarity tiers, and growing something you come back to, are the patterns behind recent player records on the platforms we build for. This book supplies both, with a twist of its own. Its first crate holds 63 units, its last chapter opens a second crate of rainforest species, and its rarest units are the ones flagged as faulty, because they see connections the others miss. Repairs show on the page: meadows bloom, salmon return, a new species turns up.

RobloxiOSAndroidAges 6+1 game

Have another Greenlight book in mind? Send a pitch, choose “Not decided yet” for the world and tell us which book.

A world listed here is an invitation to pitch, not a statement that its game rights are available. Rights are agreed per title; see rights at Greenlight Publishing.