Fakeout is a free game made by one person. These terms are written in plain language on purpose — the point is to set expectations, not to build a legal fortress.
No warranty
Fakeout is provided as-is. It's an active, actively-changing project — features move, balance shifts, and things occasionally break. We don't promise uptime, don't promise your saved progress will always be there, and don't promise the game will always work exactly the way it does today. Play at your own enjoyment; there's no purchase involved and nothing riding on it beyond a match record in your own browser.
Play fair
Don't cheat. That covers automation, input macros that play the game for you, exploiting bugs to gain an unfair advantage, or interfering with the game server or other players' connections. We reserve the right to restrict access for anyone doing this.
Conduct in chat
Fakeout's chat is moderated automatically. Messages are filtered for abusive language, and repeated violations climb a strike ladder — warnings first, then short text mutes, then longer ones for a pattern of bad behavior. Muting only ever affects free text; the quickchat macros that call out plays stay available at every rung, so a mute never benches you from your team. Clean behavior over time lets strikes decay. Be decent to the people you're playing with.
Intellectual property
Fakeout's game modes, maps, code, art and text are its own. The underlying movement physics trace their lineage to TagPro, the classic browser capture-the-flag game — that heritage is acknowledged openly on the about page and in the project's public source, but Fakeout is an independent game, not a TagPro product or an official successor to it.
The spirit of these terms
We're not trying to specify a jurisdiction or write around edge cases nobody will ever hit. If a dispute ever comes up, we'll try to resolve it the way we'd want it resolved as a player: reasonably, and in good faith. These terms may be updated as the game grows — when they change materially, we'll note it here.
Questions
Reach us at hello@fakeout.gg.