Pilots

Pixelberry's December 9, 2024 blog announced Pilots as a new feature, with further clarification provided in an additional blog posted on May 28, 2025. Pilots are story concepts that are given a short preview release to all players in order to judge reader interest. Depending primarily on how many times the Pilots are played, they may or may not become full books.^[1] If they are judged successful enough to continue, they will be expanded into an 8-chapter book called a "season." If the first season performs well, a second season of the same length will be greenlit for release shortly afterwards.

Pilots do not have a fixed release schedule. They follow the standard of most new books by launching with the first two chapters, with Chapter 3 remaining listed as "Coming Soon" until/unless it's determined that the book has been popular enough to continue. If it has, the book is removed from the app's Pilot category, potentially with some minor changes to text and character design, and added to the standard Early Access release schedule. The first two chapters remain available to all players, with the third chapter staying VIP-only for approximately six weeks, as is usual for all Early Access titles. Whether or not there will be a second season is confirmed by an in-game message at the end of the first season.

Any title initially listed in-app as a Pilot will be placed in this subcategory to separate them from standard books that are intended to tell a complete story. This includes subsequent seasons, since they all stem from the same Pilot concept.

The possibility that any Pilot will fail to achieve enough popularity to earn a continuation is inherent to their entire premise. As such, a discontinued Pilot does NOT belong in the Canceled category, which is reserved for books that were intended to be produced but later abandoned for various reasons.

Editors should not remove Pilot categories, even if those Pilots are later expanded into full books. This is to denote their (previous) status as a concept rather than a complete book.