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Work in progress. These docs describe Spawnite at launch, and some parts are still being built.

Game rules

Every game on Spawnite follows the Community Guidelines, whose section 3 holds 18 rules for games. You accept them in the Creator Terms when you publish. It does not replace them: where the two differ, the Guidelines decide.

A game goes live without waiting for a review, and its products go on sale once Spawnite has reviewed the game against the Guidelines, as Publishing says. A game that breaks a rule is taken down or loses a feature after a report. You are told why, and how to ask for another review, as section 4 of the Guidelines says.

What a game may not hold

Section titled “What a game may not hold”
  • Sexual content of any kind, at any age band.
  • Hate, harassment, or violence against real people or groups.
  • Advertising for a real tobacco or alcohol brand.
  • Deception: fake offers, hidden costs, or a false claim that a player must buy something.
  • Malware, tracking, or code that tries to reach a player’s information or get around the page’s policy, which the trust boundary describes.
  • Material you have no right to use, such as another game’s art, a brand or a song.

Material an AI made follows the same rules as any other.

Violence and the age band

Section titled “Violence and the age band”

Choose the age band, 13+ or 16+, from the strongest content a player can meet in the game. It shows on the game’s store page. Games for adults only, 18+, are not yet available on Spawnite. How much violence each band allows, from cartoon violence at 13+ to realistic violence at 16+, is rule 4 of the Community Guidelines, section 3.

What a game may sell

Section titled “What a game may sell”

A game sells products for Spawnites, through Spawnite’s purchase confirmation, as Earning from your game says. The following are not available on Spawnite:

  • A random outcome bought with Spawnites, such as a loot box, a gacha pull or a card pack. Randomness that costs no Spawnites, such as a random drop, is allowed, within the law of each country the game is offered in, with its odds shown where that law asks.
  • Trading, giving or selling between players of anything bought with Spawnites.
  • Gambling, betting, or anything a player can exchange for money.
  • NFTs, cryptocurrency and blockchain items.
  • Competitions with an entry fee or a prize of real value. Free leaderboards and tournaments are fine.
  • Preorders: a product works the moment it is bought.

What a game declares

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When you make a game public, its store page declares its age band. You also declare any official rating it holds, the countries where it must not be offered, and whether it has products for Spawnites, chat or voice, content players make, content an AI generates while it runs, or random features. Keep the declarations true when a version changes them. You publish with no notice to give, and your products go on sale once Spawnite has reviewed the game. If you plan a campaign you expect to multiply the game’s sales, tell Spawnite ahead of time when you can, as rule 17 of the Guidelines asks.