Community Guidelines

At a glance

• Encourage builders with kind, constructive feedback.

• Share work you have the right to publish.

• Rate games honestly and keep public promotion suitable for everyone.

1. Help each other keep creating

OZZI is a place to explore, try ideas and learn by making games. First games, experiments and works in progress belong here. You do not need a polished game or previous experience to take part. These guidelines apply to games, artwork, studios, names, groups, comments and interactions across OZZI, including private spaces.

Provide constructive feedback. Help someone feel encouraged to take their next step. Share something you enjoyed, ask a curious question, or offer a kind, specific suggestion. For example:

• "I enjoyed finding the hidden path. I'd love to explore another level!"

• "I wasn't sure where to go after the first room. A small hint could help."

• "The jump button didn't respond on my phone. I can share what happened."

Honest feedback about bugs, preferences and disagreements is welcome when expressed with care. Keep suggestions manageable and respect the builder's choice about what to try next. Everyone learns at their own pace.

Put-downs, mocking someone's game or abilities, humiliating comparisons and telling someone to stop creating are not welcome. Do not join or encourage a pile-on of hurtful comments. Calling something a joke or a review does not excuse belittling a person or their work.

Harassment, threats, hateful attacks, stalking, sexual harassment and coordinated bullying are prohibited. Do not target people for characteristics such as race, religion, disability, nationality, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity.

2. Build on ideas. Respect the work.

Your game belongs to you to the extent you hold its rights. Respect the same principle for other builders: use your own work, properly licensed assets, public-domain material or another lawful basis. Follow license and attribution conditions. Naming the original builder does not by itself give permission.

A new platformer, farming game or tower-defense idea is welcome. Reuploading someone else's game, copying its protected code, characters, music or artwork without rights, or presenting a lookalike as their official release is not. Shared mechanics and genres alone are not grounds for a copying report.

AI tools are welcome. You still need to review what they produce, check asset permissions and accurately describe your game. Do not use generated content to impersonate a person or fabricate their endorsement. The copyright process explains how rights holders and builders can raise and answer a claim.

3. Keep it suitable for a shared space

OZZI welcomes games for different ages. Builders assess every version using OZZI's Everyone, 5+, 9+, 13+ and 18+ ratings. Choose the highest applicable content rating, including all languages, game modes, images and audio. Difficulty is separate from content suitability. These are OZZI ratings, not official ratings from another organization.

Gentle comic mischief may suit 5+, non-graphic fantasy combat 9+, and mild swearing or non-graphic violence 13+. Strong profanity, intense fictional violence or horror, non-explicit adult themes, substance use, simulated gambling and non-instructional self-harm depictions require 18+. A single strong swear word can raise the rating. To reach a younger audience, change the content and reassess it.

Pornography, sexual services, sexual exploitation, sexualized minors, sexual violence, extreme torture or cruelty, real-world threats, hate or terrorism promotion, and instructions encouraging serious harm are prohibited. A higher rating, warning label or private setting cannot authorize them. Real-money gambling is unsupported.

Public titles, descriptions, artwork and complete preview clips must be suitable for preschoolers, even for an adult game. Do not use mature scenes to promote it. Games rated 13+ require an eligible signed-in account; 18+ also requires a current adult age range reported by the player's linked Google account. This is an age signal, not proof of verified identity.

Child exploitation, grooming, sexual solicitation of a minor, or attempts to move a child into secret or unsafe contact are prohibited. We remove such content and report it to the appropriate authorities when required.

4. Respect personal boundaries

Keep personal information out of public games and conversations. Do not share someone's home address, school, private contact details, passwords, intimate images or other private information without lawful permission. Never ask children for these details or pressure them to move to another messaging service.

Respect a person's choice to stop a conversation. Do not work around family permissions, group membership, game audiences or account restrictions. An invitation is for the people it was intended for; ask the organizer before passing it on.

5. Play fair and be clear

Use honest titles, artwork and descriptions so players know what to expect. Do not impersonate a builder, brand or OZZI staff member, make fake endorsements, spam, phish, scam, or manipulate hearts, reports, plays and scores. A disclosed practice mode or cheat code within your own game is different from falsifying a shared leaderboard.

Do not offer real-money gambling, cash-out schemes, paid random rewards, or deceptive prizes. Do not embed outside checkouts, ad networks, affiliate promotions or requests for donations in games. Commercial features need OZZI's approval and their own terms before use.

6. Make games that respect the device

Use the supported OZZI tools and services. Do not upload malware, steal credentials, secretly mine cryptocurrency, force downloads, interfere with other games, or bypass security checks. Games must not add trackers or collect players' personal information.

Keep requests and resource use reasonable. Authorized building agents are welcome; automated spam, scraping personal information and attempts to evade limits are not. If you find a security problem, contact [email protected] privately with enough detail to investigate, without accessing other people's data.

7. Tell us when something is wrong

If a conversation feels unkind or overwhelming, you can step away and ask for help. You do not need to argue back or defend your right to keep creating. Young builders can also talk to a parent or trusted adult.

Use Report a problem beside the game controls, or email [email protected] for a game, account, comment or group concern. Include the relevant link, what happened and enough context to locate it. For a group conversation, an organizer or managing parent can also help remove a post. Avoid sending passwords or unnecessary personal information; do not copy or forward suspected child sexual abuse material.

Good-faith reports are welcome even if you are unsure. We assess the evidence and context, not the number of reports. Our support channels are not emergency services; contact local emergency services if someone is in immediate danger.

8. What happens next

For an ordinary mistake, we aim to explain the concern and help you put it right, such as rewording a comment. Depending on severity, context and repeated behavior, we may ask for a correction, remove content, limit a feature, or suspend an account. Serious safety threats can lead to immediate removal. We do not guarantee review of every upload or interaction before it appears.

We normally explain significant actions unless sharing the reason would put someone at risk or interfere with a legal obligation or investigation. If you think we got it wrong, email [email protected] with "Appeal," the affected game or account, and your explanation. We review the decision and tell you the outcome. Correcting a game does not automatically lift an existing restriction.

These guidelines are part of the Terms of Service. Material updates are announced through OZZI or account email as described there. Our aim is to keep the community welcoming, protect people's work and give builders a clear path forward.