ShipChat Play and the games it serves are published by Svanvinge Service AB, org. nr 556915-2548, Sweden, and run on its own server. Everything here is free: nothing is sold, there is no advertising, and nobody pays to play. By playing, you agree to the following.
Free for fans
Everything here costs nothing today: no advertising, no tracking, nothing to buy. If it ever has to pay for itself, ads or a price would fall on people joining at that point — never on anyone already signed in. Sign in now and you keep every game published here, free, for as long as it runs.
What that is a promise about: the price. For the account you hold today it is a commitment not to charge you for a game published here and not to advertise to you. What it is not a promise about: whether the service, or any particular game in it, keeps running — No guarantees below still applies, and a service that stops takes nothing from you that you paid for, because you paid nothing. It is also the one section here that the Changes clause cannot be used against you.
No guarantees
Everything here is provided "as is", for fun, with no uptime guarantee, no warranty and no liability for lost progress, downtime, or anything else that goes wrong. Games and the platform can change, break or disappear without notice, and a game you were in the middle of can end because a server restarted.
Your account
- An account exists so players can tell each other apart. Don't impersonate anyone, and don't share your sign-in — a session is you, and anything done with it is treated as done by you.
- One person, one account. Signing in again after deleting yours simply starts a fresh one.
- You can delete your account and everything stored about you at any time, from the Delete Your Data page or inside the app.
Playing with other people
- Be decent in lobbies, rooms and chat. Harassment, abuse, slurs and spam get you removed from online play, at the operator's discretion and with no appeal process.
- Don't ruin matches on purpose — cheating, exploiting a game's bugs against other players, or holding seats to keep others out.
- Don't attack the service: no scraping, no automated clients pretending to be players, no attempts to reach other players' data or to break the token or lobby.
Suggestions and public content
Anything you post to the suggestion board — name, title, description, comments — is public, and can be edited, moderated or removed at any time. Don't post anything private, anyone else's personal details, or anything you don't hold the rights to.
The games themselves
Several are affectionate takes on classics, written from scratch with their own code, artwork and music. They are given away free rather than sold, are not affiliated with or endorsed by the original creators or rights holders, and no original assets are used. If you hold rights to something and would rather it were not here, write to play@svanvinge.com or say so through the suggestion box, and it will be removed.
Changes
These terms may change as the project does. Continuing to play after a change means you accept it.
Free for fans is the exception. It is a promise made to the accounts that exist at the time it is made, so a later version of this document cannot withdraw it from them — if that section ever changes, the change binds only people who sign in after it, and whatever it said on the day you signed in is what holds for you. That carve-out is the whole reason the promise is written here rather than only on the other pages: a term that the change clause can delete at will is not a term.
Questions go to play@svanvinge.com, or through the Marketplace's suggestion box. See also the Privacy Policy and the details of the company behind this.