games.boundlessfiction.com

The developer website for Boundless Team, and the home of the privacy policy, terms and app-ads.txt that every one of our games points at.

Plain HTML and one stylesheet. No build step, no framework, no dependencies: what is in this repository is exactly what gets served.

games-site/
├── index.html              the landing page — this URL is the Developer Website on Play
├── app-ads.txt             ONE file for every game (see "app-ads.txt" below)
├── robots.txt
├── sitemap.xml
├── favicon.ico
├── assets/
│   ├── css/site.css        the whole design, one file
│   └── img/
│       ├── site/           studio icon, social image
│       └── selfbound/      per-game icon and screenshots
├── privacy-policy/
│   └── index.html          one policy, covers all games
├── terms/
│   └── index.html          one terms document, covers all games
└── games/
    ├── selfbound/index.html
    ├── game-2/index.html   the template to copy for the next game
    └── README.md           how to add a game

URL	File
https://games.boundlessfiction.com/	index.html
https://games.boundlessfiction.com/app-ads.txt	app-ads.txt
https://games.boundlessfiction.com/privacy-policy/	privacy-policy/index.html
https://games.boundlessfiction.com/terms/	terms/index.html
https://games.boundlessfiction.com/games/selfbound/	games/selfbound/index.html
https://games.boundlessfiction.com/games/reel-counter/	games/reel-counter/index.html
https://games.boundlessfiction.com/games/snakebait/	games/snakebait/index.html
https://games.boundlessfiction.com/games/sense-of-time/	games/sense-of-time/index.html
https://games.boundlessfiction.com/games/train-the-ant/	games/train-the-ant/index.html
https://games.boundlessfiction.com/games/arise-dungeonborn/	games/arise-dungeonborn/index.html
https://games.boundlessfiction.com/games/gravity-thief/	games/gravity-thief/index.html

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Before this goes live

Search the repository for [ and fill in what is left. As it stands:

• games/selfbound/index.html — replace [Google Play URL] once the listing exists, and remove the aria-disabled="true" and the "Coming to Google Play" line.

• games/reel-counter/index.html — the same: replace [Google Play URL] with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.reelcounter.tracker once the listing exists, remove aria-disabled="true" and the "Coming to Google Play" line.

• games/snakebait/index.html — the same: replace [Google Play URL] with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snakebait.game once the listing exists, remove aria-disabled="true" and the "Coming to Google Play" line.

• games/sense-of-time/index.html — the same: replace [Google Play URL] with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.senseoftime.timinggame once the listing exists, remove aria-disabled="true" and the "Coming to Google Play" line.

• games/train-the-ant/index.html — the same: replace [Google Play URL] with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.traintheant.game once the listing exists, remove aria-disabled="true" and the "Coming to Google Play" line.

• games/arise-dungeonborn/index.html — the same: replace [Google Play URL] with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arisedungeonborn.game once the listing exists, remove aria-disabled="true" and the "Coming to Google Play" line.

• games/gravity-thief/index.html — the same: replace [Google Play URL] with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gravitythief.game once the listing exists, remove aria-disabled="true" and the "Coming to Google Play" line.

app-ads.txt is already complete, with the real publisher ID in it.

• games/game-2/ — leave it alone. It is the template, and every [Placeholder] in it is meant to stay until it is copied.

The contact address throughout is [email protected]. To change it, find and replace across the repository — it appears in the pages, the footers and the JSON-LD.

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Two documents worth reading before touching anything:

• docs/NEW-GAME-SETUP.md — the playbook for adding a game, from this site through Play Console and AdMob.
• docs/ACCESS-AND-DEPLOY.md — repository access, credentials, and how the site reaches the web.

Working on it

Clone

git clone YOUR_REPOSITORY_URL
cd games-site

Open in VS Code

code .

Or File → Open Folder → games-site. Two extensions make this pleasant, neither required:

• Live Server — right-click index.html → Open with Live Server. It serves the folder on http://127.0.0.1:5500, which is the only way to test the absolute paths (/assets/…, /privacy-policy/) properly. Opening the file directly with file:// makes every one of those links break, and that is the file protocol's fault, not the site's.
• axe Accessibility Linter — catches missing alt text and contrast problems as you type.

Any static server works if you would rather not install anything:

python -m http.server 5500

Then open http://localhost:5500/.

What to change, and where

You want to change	Edit
Studio name, intro, contact	index.html
The games list on the front page	index.html, the <ul class="cards"> block
A game's text, features, Play link	games/<game>/index.html
Game icons and screenshots	assets/img/<game>/, then the <img> tags on that page
Colours, spacing, typography	assets/css/site.css — the :root variables at the top
Privacy policy	privacy-policy/index.html (and update the date at the top)
Terms	terms/index.html (and update the date at the top)
AdMob publisher ID	app-ads.txt
Adding a whole new game	games/README.md walks through it

When you change either legal document in a way that materially affects players, also bump GameConst.legalVersion in each game's own source, so the games ask people to accept the new version.

Push

git add .
git commit -m "Update game website"
git push

GitHub is source control and history. Hostinger is production hosting. Pushing to GitHub does not by itself change the live site unless you have set up the Git deployment below.

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Hostinger

hPanel's layout shifts between plans and redesigns. The names below are what the menus are called at the time of writing; if something has moved, the feature is still there under a similar name.

1. Create the subdomain

hPanel → your hosting plan → Domains → Subdomains. Create games under boundlessfiction.com, which gives games.boundlessfiction.com.

Hostinger creates a folder for it and shows you the path — usually something like public_html/games or domains/games.boundlessfiction.com/public_html. Write that path down. It is the document root, and every step below depends on knowing it exactly.

If the subdomain is on a different hosting account from the main domain, add a DNS A record for games pointing at that account's IP, in Domains → DNS Zone.

2. Put the files in the document root

The contents of this repository go in that folder, not in a games-site folder inside it. When it is right, index.html sits directly in the document root:

<document root>/index.html
<document root>/app-ads.txt
<document root>/assets/css/site.css
<document root>/privacy-policy/index.html
<document root>/terms/index.html
<document root>/games/selfbound/index.html

Three ways to get it there, best first.

a. Git deployment (recommended). hPanel → Advanced → Git → Connect with GitHub, authorise the Hostinger GitHub app, pick this repository, pick the branch (main), and set the deploy directory to the document root path from step 1. Then every git push deploys automatically: GitHub notifies Hostinger, Hostinger pulls, the files are replaced. There is no build step, which is exactly what a static site wants.

Two things that trip people up: the deploy directory must be empty for the first deployment, and the deploy directory must be the subdomain's document root, not public_html, or the site will appear on the wrong domain.

b. File Manager. hPanel → Files → File Manager, open the document root, and upload a zip of the repository contents, then extract it there. Fine for the first upload and for the occasional one-file fix. Do not forget the dot-less files: app-ads.txt and robots.txt must land in the root.

c. FTP/SFTP. hPanel → Files → FTP Accounts for the credentials, then FileZilla or the VS Code SFTP extension. Upload the repository contents into the document root. If you use an extension that stores credentials in the project, keep that file out of Git — .gitignore already excludes sftp.json and .ftp-config.

3. HTTPS

hPanel → Security → SSL. Issue a free Let's Encrypt certificate for games.boundlessfiction.com and turn on Force HTTPS. A new certificate can take up to an hour. Google Play will not accept an http:// privacy policy URL, and ad-network crawlers expect https:// too.

4. Check it works

Open every one of these and confirm what should appear does:

https://games.boundlessfiction.com/                     the landing page
https://games.boundlessfiction.com/app-ads.txt          plain text, starting with a # comment
https://games.boundlessfiction.com/privacy-policy/      the policy
https://games.boundlessfiction.com/terms/               the terms
https://games.boundlessfiction.com/games/selfbound/     the game page

Then check, in a browser:

• the padlock is present on each one, with no "mixed content" warning;
• app-ads.txt renders as text, not as a download and not as HTML;
• the pages look right at phone width (F12 → device toolbar);
• images load — a broken icon usually means a path missing its leading /.

From a terminal, the quickest proof:

curl -I https://games.boundlessfiction.com/app-ads.txt

HTTP/2 200 and content-type: text/plain is what you want.

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app-ads.txt

One file, at the root, for every game. There is one AdMob account and one publisher ID, so there is one app-ads.txt:

https://games.boundlessfiction.com/app-ads.txt

Never create games/selfbound/app-ads.txt or any other per-game copy. The crawlers do not look there. Each game's Play listing has https://games.boundlessfiction.com/ as its Developer Website, and the crawler takes that domain and fetches /app-ads.txt from its root. A file anywhere else is invisible, and the AdMob console will keep telling you it cannot find one.

This matters for money, not tidiness: without a valid app-ads.txt, a good share of programmatic ad demand will not bid on your inventory.

After it is live, AdMob can take a day or so to re-crawl, and the warning in the console can take a few days to clear. That is normal. Verify it yourself with the URL above rather than waiting on the console.

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Play Console

For every game, the Developer Website is the root:

https://games.boundlessfiction.com/

Not the game's own page. The root is what app-ads.txt is matched against, and it is what makes the listing look like it belongs to a studio rather than to one app. Individual game pages exist for players, for links in the store description, and for search.

The privacy policy URL on every listing is https://games.boundlessfiction.com/privacy-policy/.

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House rules

• Common things stay common. The policy, the terms and app-ads.txt exist once. A game page links to them; it never carries a copy.
• One stylesheet. New styling goes in site.css where the next game can reuse it, not in a <style> block on one page.
• Absolute paths (/assets/css/site.css) so a page can be moved between folder depths without rewriting every link.
• Images carry width and height so the page does not jump while they load, and real alt text so screen readers get something useful.
• Keep it light. The whole site is well under a megabyte. Screenshots are the only thing likely to change that: export them as JPEG, not PNG.