
Station by station
The Forge
Give the fire your word count and it will light. Everything after that is yours to shape — and the price never hides from you.
- I
The Manuscript
Your word count decides everything else.
The fire has caught. Your base rate is already forming below.
- Finished runtime
- 9h 41m
- Base rate
- $18,000
- Per thousand words
- $200
- Standing total
- $18,000
- II
The Vessel
The shape your story will be poured into.
Two doors into the third vessel
Open the Full Build within 90 days and the whole Proving Chapter fee is credited against it. You never pay twice for the same ground.
Honest limits: a playable desktop build drawn from your chapters, delivered as a sealed download. Delivery is quoted as a range, never a promised day. The free Proving Ground walk stays free — the forged game is the thing that is bought.
- III
The Voices
1% of your word count per two voices. Partial blocks round up.
Voices in your cast
0A single narrator is included in the base build.
The cast you chose in the Reading Room
Nothing chosen yet. 26 registers wait in the Reading Room — hear them, take the ones your story needs, and bring the count back here.
Enter the Reading RoomOr tell it in your own voice - IV
The Atmosphere
1% per five sound effects. Score is a flat $1,500.
Sound effects
0Rain, steel, hooves, breath. Choose how loud your world is.
- V
The Arsenal
Services invented in this house. Add what your book deserves.
- VI
The Herald
We built it. Now let us make them look at it.

Draw up the Charter
Your build becomes a sealed commission document — every line item, every rate, in writing. Pay in full, or choose your terms: Platinum in halves, Gold in thirds, Silver in quarters, Bronze in sixths — each part called as the work is built.
Novel-game · 90,000 words
$18,000
50% to begin
$9,000