Terms of Use

1. Acceptance of terms

By accessing or using Maniacs you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any part of them, please do not use the service.

If you are entering into these Terms on behalf of a company or other organisation, you confirm that you have the authority to bind that organisation to them.

2. Description of the service

Maniacs turns a written brief into a short, playable game. The service includes:

• An AI workspace that researches, designs, generates and tests a game from your description
• Version history for every game you create, so you can return to an earlier draft
• Publishing, which gives a game its own public link
• Sharing a published game by email with contacts you add
• Reporting on how people played your published games

We may modify, suspend or discontinue any part of the service at any time. Where a change materially affects account holders we will give notice by email.

3. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to create an account or submit a form. By using the service you confirm that you meet this requirement and that the information you give us is accurate.

Playing a game that someone has published does not require an account and is open to any age, subject to the judgement of whoever shared it.

4. Accounts and registration

Some features require an account, which you can create with an email address and password or by signing in with Google. You agree to:

• Provide accurate, current and complete information when you register
• Keep your account information up to date
• Keep your password and account secure
• Accept responsibility for everything that happens under your account
• Tell us promptly at legal@maniacsengine.com if you believe your account has been used without your permission

Accounts are approved before the workspace becomes available. We may decline, suspend or close an account that breaches these Terms.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to use Maniacs to:

• Break any law or infringe anyone else's rights
• Create or publish content that is unlawful, hateful, harassing, deceptive, or sexually explicit involving minors
• Submit false, misleading or fraudulent information, or impersonate another person or organisation
• Upload contact details of people who would not expect to hear from you, or use sharing to send unsolicited email
• Transmit malicious code, or publish a game intended to harm or mislead the people who play it
• Attempt to gain unauthorised access to the service, other users' projects, or our infrastructure
• Scrape, copy or extract content from the service using automated tools
• Interfere with or disrupt the service, or work around usage limits and access controls
• Reverse engineer the service or use it to build a competing product

We may suspend or remove accounts, projects or published games that breach this section, and we may do so without notice where the breach is serious.

6. Your content and the games you generate

You keep ownership of what you put in and what comes out. That covers the briefs and messages you write, the contact details you add, and the games generated from your briefs (together, "Your Content").

To run the service, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, reproduce, adapt and display Your Content, solely in order to provide and improve Maniacs. If you publish a game, that licence extends to serving it publicly at the link you were given, for as long as it stays published.

You are responsible for Your Content and for the consequences of publishing it. By submitting it you confirm that you have the rights you need, that it does not infringe anyone else's rights, and that it does not break section 5.

We do not use Your Content to train AI models, and we do not license it to anyone else.

7. Credits

Generating a game consumes credits from your account balance. Each step the AI takes deducts credits at a rate that depends on the model used, and your balance and its history are visible in the workspace.

Credits have no cash value, cannot be exchanged for money, and are not transferable between accounts. Unused credits are lost when an account is closed.

We may change credit rates as model costs change. Where a change increases the cost of generating a game we will give notice by email before it takes effect.

8. Published games

Publishing a game gives it a public link. Anyone holding that link can play it without an account, and we do not restrict who they share it with. Treat a published game as public and do not put personal or confidential information into one.

We record how published games are played, as described in our Privacy Policy, and report that back to the owner of the game.

You may unpublish or delete a game at any time. We may remove a published game that breaches these Terms, and we may remove one in response to a valid legal complaint.

9. Intellectual property

The service itself, including the site, its text, design, graphics, logos, code, and the Maniacs name and branding, belongs to Maniacs Games and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. You may not copy, redistribute, modify or use it commercially without our prior written permission.

Nothing in these Terms transfers our rights in the service to you, or your rights in Your Content to us, beyond the licences each of us grants above.

If you believe something on Maniacs infringes your copyright, write to legal@maniacsengine.com with a description of the work, where it appears, and your contact details. We will investigate and remove infringing material where the complaint is valid.

10. AI generated output

Games are generated by an AI model, and that carries limits you should understand before you publish anything.

• Output can be wrong, incomplete, or not what you asked for
• Similar briefs can produce similar games, so we cannot promise your game is unique
• Output may resemble existing work, and we do not warrant that it is free of third-party rights
• A generated game may contain defects that only appear when someone plays it

You are responsible for reviewing a game before you publish or share it, and for making sure it is suitable for the people who will play it.

11. Privacy

Your use of Maniacs is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which explains what personal data we collect, why, who processes it, and the rights you have over it.

12. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied. In particular we do not warrant that:

• The service will be uninterrupted, secure or error free
• Generated games will meet your requirements or be fit for a particular purpose
• Defects will be corrected, or that any specific feature will continue to exist

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Maniacs Games is not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential or special damages arising from your use of the service, including loss of data, loss of profit or business interruption. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, such as liability for fraud or gross negligence, and nothing affects the statutory rights of consumers.

13. Termination

You may stop using Maniacs at any time and delete your account from the workspace settings, which removes your projects, games and conversations as described in our Privacy Policy.

We may suspend or close an account that breaches these Terms, and we may do so without notice where the breach is serious. Sections 6, 9, 12 and 15 survive termination.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top reflects the most recent change, and continued use after a change is posted means you accept it.

Where a change materially affects account holders we will give notice by email before it takes effect.

15. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles.

Any dispute will first be raised informally by email to legal@maniacsengine.com, and we will try to resolve it that way within 30 days. If that fails, the dispute is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Delaware, unless mandatory consumer-protection law in your country of residence gives you the right to bring it elsewhere.

16. Contact

For any question about these Terms, write to legal@maniacsengine.com.