Connecting to a server

The game will have the official server OWS for all builds and community servers NOWS for the full build only. Bullet Hero does not moderate community servers, so connect to those whose owner you know

Warning

There are no servers yet, and the game cannot connect to them. There is no address format, no connection screen and no accounts

Which servers there will be

	OWS	NOWS
Full name	Official Web Services	Non-official web services
Who runs it	Bullet Hero	anyone
Who moderates it	Bullet Hero	the server owner
Which builds connect	all	the full build only

OWS is the default server. Every build of the game on every platform knows it, nothing needs to be set up

NOWS are community servers. Bullet Hero neither controls nor moderates them

The Steam Workshop is a third channel for levels on PC. Steam builds list and launch the items you are subscribed to, and publish levels and collections there from the editor - Publishing

Which builds connect

Build	Where from	OWS	NOWS
Store build	Google Play, App Store	yes	no
Full build	GitHub and the project website	yes	yes

A store build cannot connect to a community server in any way. NOWS support is cut out of it at compile time, not hidden behind a setting

The reason is store rules. A store judges what a program can do, not which buttons it shows. And content that other people see must be moderated under their rules

The full build is planned to get its own application id, so that on Android it can be installed next to the store version. Right now all Android builds share one id, com.vertoker.BulletHero

What OWS will have

accounts and terms of use
a check of every level before publication: a level with an error is rejected, a level with a warning goes to a moderator
reports on levels and users, and blocking them

What an account stores is not decided yet. The server will have its own privacy policy, which will appear together with the server. It will describe the account and explain how to delete it. The game's and the site's policies do not cover the server - Game privacy policy, Privacy policy

When

Publishing to the Steam Workshop already works in Steam builds. There are no dates for the rest. The order is: OWS, then the Google Play build, then the App Store build

There is no playing together on a server yet, it has not been designed

Risks of other people's servers

A community server is run by a person you most likely do not know. Bullet Hero neither controls nor moderates such servers. The full build's EULA says so directly

Risk	Why
Levels with unchecked rights	the owner decides what to check and may check nothing. A level may contain music its author had no right to share
Nobody moderates the content	there is no guarantee that anyone looks at what is uploaded
Files from other sites	the standard policy lets a level fetch a file by a direct link. When you open such a level, the game downloads the file from a site the level's author chose. That is why store builds forbid it
The owner sees your traffic	there is no protocol yet, so it is unknown what exactly the server will receive. Assume the owner sees everything you send
The server can disappear	a level that exists only on that server disappears with it

By default a level is distributed under CC BY-NC, and the author can choose another license in the level's metadata. A server must respect the license of every level. Under CC BY-NC nobody may host a level commercially, a community server included, and a server that charges money for such levels breaks the license of every one of their authors

Recommendation

Connect only to servers whose owner you know. Keep your own copy of every level you care about: a level is a folder of files, and the copy on your disk does not depend on any server

EULA

The full build ships with an EULA. It says: community servers are third-party services, Bullet Hero neither controls nor moderates them

Store builds will ask you to accept an EULA before publishing a level

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