Differentiating Philosophy

Games Should Be Flexible

Like a game played with family and friends, house rules have the ultimate say.

Easy, official, in-game configuration options are important, and modding will always be encouraged.

Privacy and Simplicity of Focus

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This site's technical design is emblematic of the company's focus on privacy and simplicity (as delivered to you, behind the scenes there's an over-engineered and re-invented system building simple HTML documents, because.)

In practice, in SSS the only data collection is basic telemetry and game summaries from game servers to their configured network server. This too can be opted-out-of with a local game server and appropriate configuration.

Build To Last; Stop Killing Games

Cloud-hosted infrastructure adds dependencies and maintenance cost. Cloud-dependent games which don't collect ongoing subscription fees must either somehow monetize their players or eventually go offline.

Given those choices, all official cloud-hosted infrastructure will go offline when it needs to, but not until after providing the players all the tools needed to run their own infrastructure.

All games with any cloud-hosted infrastructure will:

• be supported with official Emberlock Games servers for a limited time after launch, paid for by initial personal investment and game sales
• include with game purchase (available by retail launch of the associated game) self-hosting executables and/or images
• be easily configurable in the client, to ease switching to a different host

Emberlock Games will never require any official server(s) for any game to function.