Community Guidelines — Driftile
Effective date: 2026-08-18
Last updated: 2026-09-27
Published at: https://driftile.com/community-guidelines/
Applies to: the Android application com.bakerly.driftile distributed on Google Play, and the iOS application of the same name distributed on the App Store.
These are the rules for anything you make that other players can see. They are written by Omar Diar Bakerly (trading as Bakerly Apps), and by publishing a level, choosing a nickname, or playing with friends you agree to them.
1. What other players can see
Three things you create are visible to people you have never met:
| What | Where it appears |
|---|---|
| Your nickname | Beside every level you publish, on leaderboards, and to friends |
| A level's name | In the Community list, to everyone browsing |
| The level itself — the board you built | In the Community list as a thumbnail, and to anyone who opens it |
The third one is the one people forget. A grid of tiles and walls is a picture, and a picture can say things. It counts as content you published, exactly like text.
2. What is not allowed
Do not publish, and do not put in a nickname or a level name:
- Hate. Anything that attacks or demeans people for their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or veteran status. This includes hate symbols drawn on a board — swastikas, the numbers used as far-right codes, and anything else whose purpose is to signal that.
- Sexual content. Nudity, sexual acts, or sexually suggestive material, drawn or written. This game is rated for all ages and used by children.
- Harassment. Content aimed at a specific person: their name, their handle, threats, insults, or anything meant to humiliate them.
- Violence and self-harm. Graphic violence, threats of violence, and anything that encourages self-harm, suicide, or an eating disorder.
- Illegal content. Anything promoting terrorism or violent extremism, the sexual exploitation of children, the sale of drugs or weapons, or fraud.
- Slurs and obscenity. Including spelled around a filter — spaces, dots, numbers for letters, or letters from another alphabet that look the same.
- Other people's personal information. Real names, addresses, phone numbers, school or workplace, photographs, or anything else that identifies somebody. Yours included: see §5.
- Advertising and spam. Links, phone numbers, social media handles, referral codes, promotion of other products, or the same level published repeatedly to fill the list.
- Impersonation. A nickname chosen to be mistaken for somebody else, including us. We will never contact you inside the game asking for a password.
- Anything you do not have the right to publish. Somebody else's artwork, trademark, or level copied from another game.
A puzzle that is unfair, badly made, or impossible is not against these rules. That is what the rating and the Broken or unsolvable report reason are for. Being bad at level design is allowed.
3. Reporting something
Every level in Community has a flag on its row, and one on the card shown when you finish it. Tap it, pick what is wrong, and it is sent to us:
| Reason | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Offensive | Anything in §2 |
| Spam | Advertising, links, or the same level over and over |
| Broken or unsolvable | A puzzle that cannot be finished, or whose move count is wrong |
| Something else | Anything the other three do not cover |
Reports are anonymous to the person you reported. They never learn who reported them, or that a report happened at all.
The same flag also offers Block this player, which is a different thing and is described in §5.
You can also write to [email protected] — use this for anything urgent, anything involving a child, or anything about a player rather than a single level.
Do not use reports as a weapon. Reporting levels you simply dislike, or organising other people to report one, is itself a breach of these rules.
4. What we do about it
Enough independent reports about one level hide it automatically, before anybody at our end has looked. That is deliberate: for the kind of content in §2, waiting for a human is the wrong default.
After that a person reviews it, and depending on what they find we may do any of the following:
| Outcome | When |
|---|---|
| It comes back | The reports were wrong, or it broke no rule |
| It stays hidden | It broke a rule, and it is not visible to anyone again |
| It is removed | Serious breaches — anything in §2's hate, sexual, or illegal lines |
| Your nickname is reset | The name itself broke a rule. It is removed, and you can choose another |
| You lose access to Community | Repeatedly, or once for something serious enough. This is for a set period, not permanent, and the levels you had published are hidden while it lasts and come back when it ends |
We may also do any of these without a report, if we find it ourselves. Some checks are automatic and run at the moment you publish — a level whose name contains a link, or whose stated move count is wrong, is refused there and then rather than reported later.
We do not review every level before it appears. Levels are published immediately, and moderation is what happens when something is reported or flagged. If you think we got a decision wrong, write to [email protected].
5. Looking after yourself
- Your nickname is public. It does not have to be your name, and the game never asks for your name anywhere. Pick something you are happy for strangers to see.
- Do not put anything private in a level name. It is visible to everybody.
- You are 13 or older. That is the minimum age for using this app at all, and it is in the privacy policy.
- Nobody can reach you through a published level. Publishing does not let anyone message you or add you as a friend; a friend request has to be accepted, and you can remove a friend at any time.
- You can block a player. Open the flag on any of their levels and choose Block this player. Everything they have published disappears from Community for you, and so does everything they publish afterwards — not just the level you were looking at. It lasts until you undo it, and it is invisible to them: they are not told, and nothing they see changes. Blocking is separate from reporting and neither replaces the other — a block changes what you see, a report is how we find out. Use both if both apply. Your blocked players are listed under Settings → Blocked players, with an Unblock button beside each one.
- Take your own level down at any time. Its ⋯ menu has Take down, and deleting it from your device takes it down too.
6. Changes
We will update these rules as the game changes. The date at the top says when they last changed, and the current version is always at https://driftile.com/community-guidelines/.
Questions, appeals, and anything you are not sure about: [email protected].