A little transparency.

Games & open-source credits

Sidequest is an independent community pilot. We host open-source builds and keep their authors’ notices. These are not official versions and the original authors do not endorse this site.

The website uses Astro (MIT). Community game adapters add score reporting and remove third-party tracking. Game source archives include those changes.

Browser games can be licensed separately from their audio and art. The three community builds have no background music. Partner games have their own audio. For commercial broadcasts, review each game’s included notices and the rules of your streaming platform; we do not promise immunity from automated copyright claims.

Partner games & advertising

Kingdom Defender - Tower Defense, Chicken Merge, Moto X3M, Soccer Random and Geometry Arrow 2 are supplied through the Playgama partner catalog. These games are hosted by the provider; they are not open-source downloads. The three community builds below retain their separate licenses.

Partner games may show advertising. We only load them after you choose Play; no partner game iframe is loaded while browsing the homepage. Our partner links attribute eligible activity to Sidequest. Actual revenue is determined by the provider. We do not guarantee revenue, copyright clearance for commercial livestream music, or automatic scores from partner games.

Playgama privacy policy · Playgama terms

Privacy

We do not require email, social sign-in or payment details. Your nickname and submitted score are visible to anyone with your challenge link. Do not enter personal information as a nickname.

Challenge records and aggregate daily room-creation, join, round-start, play-button, partner-load, favorite-button and share-button counts are stored on our server. If you enable optional analytics in the footer, a random browser identifier records first-party visit, game-page, launch, frame-load, loading-timeout, visible-page duration and next-game events, plus coarse source categories. We store a hash of that identifier, not your full referring URL, email or IP address. Data is kept for up to 30 days. These metrics are not advertising impressions or verified gameplay. Use Analytics choices to turn it off and erase its stored server records. No optional analytics are sent before you allow them. Our pages use no third-party analytics. Playgama partner games are optional third-party content, loaded only when you choose Play on their game page; those games may use cookies and advertising technologies under Playgama’s privacy policy. Game thumbnails are served from our server. Server-side rate limits temporarily use network addresses in memory; addresses are not written to the application database. Hosting providers may retain operational logs under their own policies.

Game progress, favorites, recent games, challenge participation tokens and host controls are stored locally in your browser. You can clear recent games on the homepage and remove favorites individually. Partner games may store their own data; use their privacy controls to manage it. Clear browser storage to remove local data; this also removes access to host controls. The daily 2048 board accepts a nickname and stores the current server-calculated board and scores for that day. A browser token lets you resume the board. Daily public rankings show the best score per nickname; names are not verified identities. Challenge rooms stop accepting activity after 24 hours. Records are automatically removed after 30 days. Keep a host control token private; it grants permission to start and create the next round of the corresponding challenge. CSV exports include public nicknames and scores, never host or player tokens.

QR code credits

Room invite QR codes are generated locally in your browser using QRCode for JavaScript by Kazuhiko Arase (MIT), adapted from qrcode-terminal. No invite is sent to an external QR service. Source and copyright notices are retained in our QR script.

Terms of the pilot

Games and challenges are free. There are no Sidequest deposits, prizes, cash rewards or withdrawals. The five current partner games are listed without in-app purchases in the partner catalog; partner advertising may appear. Room scores come from users’ browsers, pass basic plausibility checks and can still be manipulated; daily puzzle scores are calculated on the server but do not prove human play; do not use them for prizes or paid competitions.

No harassment, impersonation, automated flooding or offensive nicknames. Use rooms with communities you trust; user-generated names may appear on a live board. Host controls remain in the creating browser, and a shared link does not confer host access.

Five optional games are connected through our Playgama partner links. Sidequest may receive a share of eligible advertising revenue. Do not click ads to support the site or artificially generate game sessions. The service is provided as a pilot without an uptime guarantee. Intended for adult hosts and their appropriately supervised communities, not a child-directed service.