Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw is making another move and it’s outside of the video game industry. His debut Novel, Mogworld will be published by Dark Horse Books.

Mogworld is a comedic (do you expect anything else?) fantasy novel covering the story of Jim that after dying is brought back to life by a renegade necromancer. Jim wants to die properly but he’s a minor character in a MMORPG.

“I love Zero Punctuation, and I had asked Yahtzee to pitch us a book about video games,” explains Mogworld editor Rachel Edidin. “The last thing I expected was a novel draft! And the next thing I knew, I was taking the manuscript home with me—less to finish it than because I had to see what happened next.”

Says Croshaw, “I’ve been trying to write novels ever since I first read Hitchhiker’s Guide at the age of eight, so this is a pretty big deal for me, and I’m very happy to be working with Dark Horse on this. Mogworld is an idea I’ve been kicking around ever since those dark, unproductive three months I spent playing World of Warcraft. It’s a bit of a cynical take on MMOs and the standard Tolkienesque ‘fantasy’ setting.”

Mogworld was announced at GameX in Phildelphia where he currently is meeting with fans. Mogworld will be out on shelves in August 2010.