CodexDeus Games

Book-to-Game Rights Submissions

Submit a proven LitRPG, GameLit, progression-fantasy, or RPG-forward book for potential consideration as a CodexDeus game-rights partnership.

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Before sending material

A Submission Is an Introduction—not a Rights Deal.

These terms protect both sides during an initial review. They are not a substitute for the option, license, development, accounting, or merchandising agreement that would be negotiated if CodexDeus decides to pursue a property.

Submission terms

What You Agree to When You Email.

  1. Submit Only What You Control

    You must be the rights owner or an authorized representative with the ability to discuss the interactive-entertainment and video-game adaptation rights. Identify any publisher, agent, coauthor, prior option, license, lien, or other restriction that may affect those rights.

  2. Start With Public and Summary Material

    Send the book listing, series information, review count and rating, social links, rights status, and a concise game pitch. Do not send a full manuscript, confidential material, passwords, or irreplaceable originals in the first email.

  3. Initial Submissions Are Not Confidential

    CodexDeus does not accept an obligation of confidentiality through an unsolicited email or submission. If confidential review becomes useful, the parties can decide whether a separate written confidentiality agreement is appropriate.

  4. No Agreement Is Created by Submission

    Submitting material does not create an agency, partnership, fiduciary relationship, option, license, development commitment, payment obligation, or promise to review, respond, negotiate, finance, publish, or release a game.

  5. Your Rights Remain Yours Until a Deal Is Signed

    CodexDeus receives no ownership or adaptation rights merely because material is submitted. Any option, exclusive license, assignment, development engagement, or merchandising grant must be stated in a separate written agreement signed by the authorized parties.

  6. Independent and Similar Projects May Exist

    CodexDeus may already be developing, evaluating, or later receive projects with similar genres, systems, characters, themes, settings, or ideas. Similarity alone does not establish that submitted material was used.

  7. Selection and Terms Remain Discretionary

    Published criteria are preferences, not a promise of eligibility. CodexDeus may accept, reject, pause, or decline any submission. Any advance, option period, 90/10 target split, accounting, recoupment, approvals, merchandising rights, or reversion terms exist only in the final signed agreement.

First-contact checklist

Send the Evidence, Rights Status, and Game Hook.

  • Author or authorized representative name and contact information
  • Book or series title and public Amazon listing
  • Current Amazon review count and average rating
  • Genre and a one-paragraph summary of the playable premise
  • Social profiles, newsletter size, community, or other audience evidence
  • Who owns or controls the game-adaptation rights
  • Any existing options, licenses, publisher approvals, or third-party restrictions
Email a Rights Submission

By emailing a submission, you confirm that you have read and accept the submission terms above. Do not attach a full manuscript to the first email. This page is general business information, not legal advice; each party should use its own qualified attorney for any rights transaction.