money
- New listings start at $5. Everything is whole US dollars.
- Raises are at least $1 more than your current total.
- You only ever pay the difference. Going from $40 to $60 costs $20, and your listing then shows $60.
- Rank is your cumulative total, high to low. Equal totals keep the order they were placed — the older bid stays above.
- Payments are final. There are no refunds, including if someone outbids you thirty seconds later. That is the game.
- Nothing changes on the board until Stripe confirms the payment.
listings
- Link the playable build: a URL someone can open and press start. A store page or an itch page is fine.
- No chat or invite links — Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, Messenger. No link shorteners.
- Query strings and fragments are stripped. Your link is stored clean, and we add our own utm_source on the way out.
- One listing per URL. Submitting a URL that already exists raises that listing instead of duplicating it.
- Pick the engine you actually used. Wrong engine gets moved, repeat offenders get pulled.
- The 'built with' tag is free, optional, and doesn't affect rank.
- No adult content, no gambling, no malware, nothing illegal. We pull it and keep the money.
boards
- One bid puts you on the global board and on your engine's board at the same time. You are not paying twice.
- Engine boards are ranked by the same number as the global board, filtered.
- Plays are click-throughs from here to your link, deduped by IP within a short window. They're a vanity metric, not a guarantee.
the boring part
- Your listing is public. Anyone can see the title, blurb, link, engine, handle and the amount you paid.
- We can remove anything at any time. Removed listings keep their spend on the ledger and don't come back.
- There is no account. Your URL is your identity. Keep the receipt Stripe sends you.
- Questions, takedowns, corrections: hi@gamerank.lol