Community Guidelines

Be respectful

Treat developers, players, moderators, and community members with respect. Constructive criticism is welcome. Harassment, personal attacks, insults, threats, hate speech, targeted abuse, or repeated hostile behavior are not allowed.

Give useful feedback

Feedback should focus on the project, experience, design, presentation, or question being discussed. Good feedback is specific, respectful, and useful.

Developers are not required to accept every suggestion, and players are not entitled to direct access, keys, private builds, or personal responses.

Share projects honestly

Developers should describe their projects clearly and accurately. Do not misrepresent your identity, studio, project ownership, development status, use of assets, use of tools, release status, or affiliation with another developer, publisher, platform, or community.

If a project is early, experimental, AI-assisted, paused, prototype-stage, looking for playtesters, or seeking support, it is better to say so clearly.

No spam or promotion flooding

Demo Disk is not designed for repeated self-promotion. Developers may share relevant updates, project context, playtesting needs, craft notes, and useful progress.

Reposting the same link repeatedly, joining only to promote, mass-tagging members, or flooding channels with advertisements may be removed.

Use official and safe links

Demo Disk does not host executable builds, unknown downloads, ZIP files, APKs, EXEs, installers, unofficial mirrors, or suspicious files.

Links shared through Demo Disk or Discord should point to official, reputable destinations such as Steam, itch.io, Game Jolt, YouTube, Vimeo, developer websites, press kits, GitHub or GitLab when relevant, or other trusted project pages.

Discord is an extension of Demo Disk

The Demo Disk Discord is for project introductions, developer updates, feedback requests, playtesting interest, thoughtful discussion, and community support.

Please keep discussion relevant to the appropriate channels. Do not spam, derail conversations, impersonate other developers, pressure people for feedback, or use Discord roles to imply endorsement beyond what Demo Disk has actually granted.

What roles mean

A Listed Developer role means a developer has at least one approved project listed on Demo Disk. It does not mean Demo Disk publishes, owns, funds, represents, or officially verifies every claim made by that developer.

Verified Developer and Featured Developer layers may be introduced later as manual trust and editorial systems. They are not required for basic participation.

Reporting issues

Community members may report broken links, suspicious links, impersonation concerns, incorrect project information, ownership concerns, harassment, or other safety issues.

Reports should be made through the Report an Issue page or through available moderation channels.

Moderation

Demo Disk may remove submissions, listings, messages, links, Discord posts, or community access at its discretion.

Moderation decisions may be made for safety, clarity, legal concerns, impersonation concerns, spam prevention, community health, or violation of these guidelines.