Terms of Service

1. Introduction

Bitmagic Oy ("we", "us", "our"), registered in Finland, operates Bitmagic.ai and its gaming platform. By accessing or using our services, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service.

2. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using Bitmagic.ai, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy.

3. Use of Service

You may use Bitmagic.ai to create, publish, and share games. You are responsible for all content you create and share through our platform. You agree not to use the service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose.

4. Intellectual Property

The games you create using Bitmagic are your intellectual property. You retain full ownership and may monetize them in any way you choose. This covers everything you author: your game code, your designs, your levels and configuration, and the assets generated for your game.

The Bitmagic engine is not part of that. It is our intellectual property, and it is licensed to you rather than assigned — on terms that let you build, modify, sell and distribute games freely. Section 5 sets out that licence.

By using Bitmagic, you grant us a license to host, display, and distribute your content through our platform. We also reserve the right to showcase games created with Bitmagic to third parties as examples of what can be built on the platform (e.g. in marketing, case studies, or demonstrations).

5. Bitmagic Engine License

The Bitmagic engine — including the engine source the bitmagic CLI installs into your project — is licensed to you under the PolyForm Shield License 1.0.0, together with an additional permission that we grant on top of it. The full text ships with the engine as engine/LICENSE.md and governs in case of any conflict with this summary.

What you may do. Build games with the engine and sell them. Modify the engine however your game needs, and ship your game with those changes in it. Distribute your games through any channel you like — bitmagic.ai, your own website, Steam, itch.io, a console store, or a desktop or mobile build. Publishing through Bitmagic is never a condition of this licence.

What you may not do. Provide the engine as the engine: distributing, selling, sublicensing or hosting it — modified or not, for a fee or for free — as a game engine, framework, SDK, library, template, starter kit, or game-creation tool or service.

The licence is perpetual for what you have. Every version of the engine you legitimately obtained stays licensed to you under these terms, permanently. A Bitmagic Pro subscription pays for access to new engine versions, the CLI, and our hosted services; ending it does not end this licence and does not affect games you have already shipped.

Passing on the notice. A published game contains compiled engine code, so distributing a game distributes part of the engine. The licence requires that the accompanying notice travels with it. Games built and published through Bitmagic's own pipeline carry that notice automatically; if you build or distribute the engine by any other route, reproducing it is your responsibility. Third-party components bundled with the engine keep their own licences, listed in engine/THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md.

Access to the engine source is provided through the Bitmagic CLI to subscribers. You may not redistribute that source, or provide it to people who have not obtained it from us, other than as part of a game you distribute.

6. User Content

You retain ownership of all content you create using Bitmagic. You are solely responsible for your content and warrant that you have all necessary rights to create and share such content.

7. Prohibited Uses

You agree not to use Bitmagic to create content that is illegal, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, or violates any third-party rights. We reserve the right to remove any content that violates these terms.

8. Service Availability

We strive to maintain service availability but do not guarantee uninterrupted access. We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue any aspect of the service at any time.

9. Limitation of Liability

Bitmagic is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. We are not liable for any damages arising from your use of the service.

10. Changes to Terms

We reserve the right to modify these terms at any time. Continued use of the service after changes constitutes acceptance of the new terms.

11. Contact

For questions about these Terms of Service, please contact us at contact@bitmagic.ai.

Address: Teollisuuskatu 22 B 36, FI-00520 HELSINKI, Finland