It’s for non-commercial use only currently.
Part of the reason is that it’s simply not ready for anything approaching commercial use and I don’t want the system to gain a bad reputation (until it is). The scrolling is janky, the animations are non existent, there is no auto map, the soft keyboard integration is terrible No gesture support, poor visually impaired accessibility, and more. Adventuron on desktop is acceptable now, but mobile users have very high standards, and Adventuron does not currently meet those standards.
It’s simply not ready, especially on iOS where web applications are absolute second class citizens and they have zero control over the software keyboard. I have blogged about multiple years of pain in developing parser games on mobile browsers. One issue on Apple is that the software keyboard assumes that every text widget is in a form, and displays a panel for navigating form widgets above the (already massive) software keyboard, this leaves a tiny amount of space for the game itself, and it also looks TERRIBLE. On Android, if the app is a native app, the app can control the software keyboard autocompletion bar, but if the app is a web app, then a massive autocompletion bar (that is not plugged into the games vocabulary) appears above the keyboard. If I wanted to have contextual auto-completes, they would need to appear above non-contextual auto-completes. Mobile browsers are an absolute mess. Switching off the autocomplete bar is possible on some Android devices but not on a per app or per web domain basis, so if Adventuron needs to disable the OS software keyboard autocomplete bar, it needs to request the user of the phone disable them completely for all apps - which is a non starter.
I wish I had connections in Google and Apple to resolve these problems, but alas I don’t, and alas Google and Apple both have OS specific hacks to stop proper integration with autocompletion bar or autocompletion suggestions.
The only way it would work on iOS is via an iOS/Swift wrapper on a webview, which in my view is utterly appalling, and would require me buying Apple hardware and paying over a hundred dollars a year to them for the privilege. Apple seems to be purposefully downgrading the web app / PWA experience, and I feel completely helpless to do anything about it. Adventuron games on iOS remain sub-optimal.
I know that any kind of possible monetization (or future monetization) is kind of unpalatable for a genre that is effectively commercially dead, but I’m leaving my options open for now. I can guarantee that the regular version of Adventuron will always be free for non commercial use, and I’m hoping one day to open source it too.
Currently authors either make free games with Adventuron, or they make their game available for free with a donations button close by, but commercial games with Adventuron at the moment is a complete non-starter whilst the mobile landscape is a complete mess.
I’m sorry if this isn’t the answer you are hoping for.