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Games Licensing

Introduction​

Oekaki Connect is a team of talented developers, artists, writers, and musicians. We provide licensing for our games. Now, you can license a select number of games for your own site under your own branding.

If you are interested, contact us with what you have in mind, and we can provide a quote.

General Licensing Terms​

Licensing can be set up in terms of years, with the option for automatic renewal. The games you license will continue to function on your site as long as your license term is valid.

Game licensing is on a per-title basis, and each additional title has its own license fee. You can cancel your licenses at any time, but there are no refunds for any remaining time on the license. Oekaki Connect can also cancel licenses for any reason, but we will not stop serving games on your site until your current license term ends, unless you are in breach of the license.

Automatic renewal means that if a license is not canceled, you will need to pay the same fee again for the next term (in years). The benefit is that if our general license fees increase, you can continue paying the same rate you originally paid.

If you do not enable automatic renewal, your licensed games will stop working as soon as your license term ends. If you have automatic renewal enabled, you have 30 days to pay for the new license term before the games stop working.

This is not the full license. Below are some examples of the terms in the license so that you can understand what will be included in your final license terms.

Liability & Indemnification​

  1. Limitation of Liability
    To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Oekaki Connect and its affiliates, officers, employees, and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, whether incurred directly or indirectly, nor for any loss of data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses resulting from:

    • Your use of or inability to use the licensed games and services
    • Unauthorized access to or alteration of your data
    • Any third-party conduct or content accessed through the licensed games or services
    • Any other matter relating to the licensed games or services

  2. Indemnification
    You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Oekaki Connect and its affiliates, officers, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorney fees and costs) arising out of or related to:

    • Your breach of any provision of this agreement or other applicable policies or guidelines
    • Your violation of any law or the rights of any third party
    • Your misuse of the licensed games or services

Warranties & Disclaimers​

  1. “As Is” and “As Available” Provision
    Except as expressly provided herein, the licensed games and services are offered on an “as is” and “as available” basis. Oekaki Connect makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or course of performance or dealing.

  2. No Guarantee of Error-Free Operation
    Oekaki Connect does not warrant that the licensed games and services will be uninterrupted, secure, or free of bugs or errors. You acknowledge that any use of the licensed games and services is at your own discretion and risk.

  3. No Further Warranties
    No advice or information (whether oral or written) obtained by you from Oekaki Connect, or through or from the licensed games and services, will create any warranty not expressly stated in this agreement.

Payment​

Payments are made in full for the number of years you wish to license. We will give you a quote once we fully understand your needs.

Payments are generally expected to be made in cryptocurrency, though if you are not able to pay in crypto, we can make other arrangements.

We have a general no-refund policy; however, we may provide refunds if, for example, we need to pull a title for some reason.

Reskins and Custom Games​

If you need simple reskins of our games, the cost will be lower. For custom-made games or extensive customizations, the cost will be higher. If you want a custom game type that is exclusive to your site, that will also incur a higher fee.

White Label Games​

White label games, in which our credits are not included at all, are available for an additional fee.

Ad Network Integration​

We offer an optional ad network in our games. You can create a custom ad network through our service, which can generate revenue for you by allowing people to purchase ads. You moderate these ads, and they are displayed within your copies of the games. The ad network supports images and text, but we do not allow clickable links. Ads are shown unobtrusively in main menus, pre-game lobbies, or post-game screens.

Another use case for our ad network is to keep it private and use it to promote your own products within your licensed games—or use a combination of both approaches.

Ads are displayed in a fair, shuffled “grab bag” style, where each ad unit is shown once until all units have been displayed once. Then all ad unit IDs are shuffled, and the cycle repeats. If people want a higher percentage of display time, they can buy more ad units.

Ad units are a one-time purchase (they are not paid for based on the number of impressions), but you can configure how long ad units remain active before they expire after they are purchased. You can choose never to have them expire, although once an ad unit is purchased, it will keep its settings forever. You can manually increase the expiration time for specific ad units, but not decrease it. It is your responsibility to approve or moderate new ad units based on your own terms. We also have general standards, such as prohibitions on nudity and malicious websites. You can view all restrictions for ad units in our ad network portal terms.

You choose the price at which you sell ad units, and you keep 90% of ad unit sales.

You are not limited to displaying ads only in the games; you can also embed them on your site through iframes. They still will not be clickable, as our policy does not allow clickable ad links.

Hosting and Service Costs​

All games and related services are hosted by us. All service and bandwidth costs are included in your license fee.

Game Updates & Support​

We will maintain the games, fix bugs, and improve features over time according to our schedule. Any improvements we make on our own are free. If you need specific features or changes that go beyond bug fixes or very minor alterations (such as updating a logo or a color), additional fees will apply.

We do our best to keep our games bug-free and running smoothly. You can contact us with any technical issues. Support and bug fixes are provided at no additional charge.

Generally, you should expect us to respond to support issues within two business days.

Embedding Games​

When placing the games on your site, you embed them via a sandboxed iframe. This prevents our games from interacting with your site or invoking functions such as web3.

The games you license are sitelocked to your domain, meaning they can only be played on your site.

Optional User Authentication​

For certain games, you have the option to pass one-time-use user authentication tokens into the iframe so the game can save a user’s state and progress. This will require integration on your part. If you prefer that users start over each time they visit the game, that is also possible.

API Integration​

You can edit user information through our API. This can be useful if you want to use the same usernames in the game as on your site, or if you want to unlock server-only achievements that may grant in-game vanity items. These achievements can be tied to other parts of your site or products you sell.

You’ll also be able to retrieve user information for specific users from our API. This is useful if you want to award users for earning certain achievements in the game on your site.

Multiplayer Features​

Our multiplayer games support various lobby types. Users can join public lobbies or create private ones to invite friends using invite codes.

Multiplayer game state is simulated on our servers. Although this reduces many forms of cheating, people can still try to cheat with bots or scripting. Our services have a no-bot/no-scripting requirement and may block users suspected of such activities. However, there is not much we can do if someone uses a computer to make optimal moves in, for example, a chess game. For this reason, we encourage players to primarily play with friends if cheating is a concern.

Efficiency and Compatibility​

Our games are designed to be efficient and load quickly. They are supported on modern mobile devices and PCs.

Personal Information & Privacy​

We generally do not want you to store personal information in our services. Sometimes you may need to store minimal data (such as usernames). Personal data such as real names, dates of birth, addresses, and email addresses must never be stored on our services, and storing them is against our API terms. We comply with global standards for data storage.

We will never sell or share user information with third parties. This includes data related to individual users. We may share aggregated data publicly, such as the total number of users online.

Aggregated data is anonymized. Stale user data is deleted from our services after one year of inactivity.

If you want the most anonymized experience for your users, do not use our API or optional authentication. Simply embed our games and let people play!

Analytics​

As a licensee, you’ll be able to view analytics for each licensed title on your site via your dashboard. This includes information such as daily or monthly active users, current users online, and peak activity times.

Your ad network also includes an analytics dashboard for your ad unit buyers, showing impressions of the ad units they purchase. Since we do not allow ad interactions (clicks), the only relevant metric is impressions. We do not include information such as aggregated geo-location in ad analytics—only total impressions.

Games!​

Games with Oekaki Connect are a win-win. We focus on making great games, your users have more fun things to do, and you have the option to generate additional income from ads displayed in-game.

Where do you get started? Open a ticket in our Discord server and let us know what you're interested in.