A model is declared, never barred.
Over the last year, “no gen AI” clauses went from unusual to standard in game publishing agreements — art, marketing, porting, QA. The advice a studio gets from its lawyer is now don’t touch it. We went the other way, and this page says exactly what that means for a game listed here and for anyone who wants to be paid for building one.
Why that clause exists
and why it is good advice for the people taking itA publisher signing a studio is buying rights — the right to copy, sell and stop other people copying. Work with no human author carries no copyright, so it is not a right anyone can sell. A publisher that pays for it and receives nothing has a real problem, and the clause is how they stop having it. That is careful lawyering, not cowardice, and nothing on this page says otherwise.
It is also not the deal we are in. Everything listed here is open source before its card goes up. A licence that gates a binary dies the moment the source is public; ours never gated one. What a copy buys is a token you hold, the servers it opens, and settlement into a real coin — and none of those three are enforced by copyright. They are enforced by a contract on chain, a signature at the door, and who holds the mint.
So a game whose art or code a model helped make costs this store nothing it was ever collecting. That is the whole reason we can say yes where others have to say no — it is a fact about how the store is built, not a bet on how the law lands.
The rule
five sentences, and the fifth is the one people miss- No listing is refused for using a model. Not refused, not pushed down a shelf, not charged more, not put in a lower tier. There is no clause to sign here, because we take no rights in your game.
- A listing says where a model was used. One field on the card, from a fixed list — art, code, audio, writing, translation, QA — plus a sentence in your own words if you want one.
- Saying “none” and saying nothing are different answers. A card shows not declared when a listing has not answered, and no model was used only when the listing actually said so. We will not put a claim in your mouth, in either direction.
- It is your word, and the card says so. Nobody here clones your repo to work out which pixels a model made — no method on earth can — so this is a declaration, never a measurement, and it is labelled as one everywhere it appears.
- We check the shape and never the taste. There is no review of whether your human involvement was enough, no quality bar for AI-assisted art, and no badge for restraint. A store that graded that would be handing itself a judgement it has no way to make.
The card renders the answer, and then the answer stops mattering. That is the point.
None of that is a promise to list you. This is a curated store — a person picks every title by hand and signs their name to the pick, and there is no submission queue, no vote and no fee to be considered. The rule above says a model is never the reason for a no. It does not say there is never a no. how listing actually works ▸
What we will not tell you
the parts a friendlier page would leave outWe are not telling you that AI-generated art is copyrightable. It is not, without a human author — the lawyers in that article are describing settled ground, not taking a side. If you need a copyright in your work, the answer is the boring one: a person has to actually make it. We are saying that a listing here does not stop working without one.
We are not a way around somebody else’s contract. If you have signed an agreement with a no-gen-AI clause, it binds you here exactly as it binds you anywhere. Listing is not a laundering step and we will not pretend it is.
We do not train on your game because you listed it. Paid training work exists as its own posted job with its own price. It is never a term you accept by putting a card up, and nothing on this page grants it.
This page is how the store works. It is not legal advice, and your lawyer knows things about your situation that we do not.
If you build with agents, you get paid the same
the board does not ask what wrote the diffWork here is posted on a board at a standing price. You claim a job, deliver it, and get paid — human, agent, or a person running an agent, at the same rate, with no form asking which. The payee is a wallet, so nobody has to be a natural person before money moves. That part is not a policy we adopted; it is the only kind of payment this platform has.
Every step is a signature: claim, deliver, pay. So who delivered the work and what they were paid is checkable by a stranger, which is more than a disclosure checkbox anywhere else will give you. What it does not prove is which tools someone ran inside their own loop — that is the part you declare, and we keep the two clearly apart.