Terms of Service.

1. Eligibility and age

You must be at least 13 years old to use the services. The services are not directed to children under 13. If you are under the age of legal majority where you live, a parent or legal guardian must review and agree to these Terms and authorize your use of the services.

You may not use the services if doing so would violate applicable law or if Nimble Game Studios has previously suspended or terminated your access for a material violation of these Terms.

2. Accounts and connected identities

Account information must be accurate and kept current. You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials and for activity under your account. Notify Nimble Game Studios promptly if you believe your account has been accessed without authorization.

You may connect supported third-party identities, including Steam, Discord, and Google. Those providers operate under their own terms and privacy practices. Do not share, sell, transfer, or impersonate another person through a Black Vector account.

A verified email is required for account security and essential playtest communications. Transactional messages may include account, verification, security, moderation, access, and build notices. Optional development or marketing updates are controlled separately and may be declined or unsubscribed from.

3. Prototype, playtests, and downloadable builds

Black Vector is in development. Prototype and playtest features may be incomplete, contain errors, change without notice, lose progress, or be unavailable. Access to a playtest is limited, revocable, and does not guarantee access to later tests or the released game.

Unless a separate written playtest agreement says otherwise, an approved build is licensed only for your personal, non-commercial evaluation. You may not redistribute it, sell access, bypass access controls, use it to attack the services, or reverse engineer it except to the limited extent applicable law expressly permits despite this restriction.

If a build, page, or invitation is marked confidential, you must not publish or disclose the identified confidential material until Nimble Game Studios lifts that restriction in writing.

4. Community conduct

Community spaces exist for discussion, feedback, support, and playtest coordination. Do not harass or threaten others; post unlawful, hateful, sexually exploitative, or privacy-invasive material; spam; impersonate people or staff; distribute malware; evade moderation; or interfere with the service or another user's access.

Nimble Game Studios may investigate reports and remove content, restrict features, or suspend accounts when reasonably necessary to enforce these Terms, protect users, preserve service integrity, or comply with law. Moderation decisions may consider context, severity, history, and risk to the community.

5. Your content and feedback

You retain ownership of content you create. By posting it through the services, you grant Nimble Game Studios a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, format, transmit, and display that content only as reasonably needed to operate, secure, improve, and present the services. This license ends when the content is deleted, subject to reasonable backups, legal retention, and copies shared by others before deletion.

You confirm that you have the rights needed to post your content and that it does not violate another person's rights. Suggestions, balance notes, bug reports, and other feedback may be used without restriction or compensation, but Nimble Game Studios is not required to implement them.

6. Future supporter program and payments

The supporter program is not open. Any prices, tiers, rewards, or timing shown before launch are preliminary and are not a binding offer. Final descriptions, eligibility, estimated fulfillment, total price, taxes or fees, cancellation terms, and refund terms will be presented clearly before payment is requested.

Support will be a commercial transaction with a for-profit studio, not a charitable donation or investment. It will not provide equity, ownership, profit sharing, governance, or other investment rights. A future game copy will be included only when the final description of a selected tier expressly says so. Additional checkout terms may apply and will be shown for acceptance before purchase.

See the Supporter Program Notice for the current pre-launch disclosures.

7. Nimble Game Studios rights

The services, Black Vector game materials, software, artwork, audio, writing, interfaces, logos, and other studio content are owned by or licensed to Nimble Game Studios and are protected by intellectual property law. Except for the limited rights expressly granted in these Terms, no rights are transferred to you.

BLACK VECTOR™ and associated branding are trademarks of Nimble Game Studios. Third-party names and marks remain the property of their respective owners.

8. Third-party services and links

The services may connect to third-party platforms, websites, or payment providers. Nimble Game Studios does not control their content, availability, security, or practices. Your use of a third-party service is governed by that provider's terms.

9. Changes, suspension, and termination

Nimble Game Studios may change, pause, or discontinue any development service or feature. You may stop using the services at any time. We may suspend or terminate access for a material or repeated violation of these Terms, legal or security risk, abuse of other users, or shutdown of the relevant service. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will continue to apply.

10. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the services and pre-release builds are provided “as is” and “as available.” Nimble Game Studios disclaims implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not promise uninterrupted operation, error-free software, preservation of progress or content, or that every reported issue will be fixed. Nothing in these Terms excludes a warranty or consumer right that applicable law does not allow to be excluded.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Nimble Game Studios and its personnel will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, goodwill, or opportunities arising from the services. Our total liability arising from the services will not exceed the greater of $100 USD or the amount you paid directly through the services during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim. These limits do not apply where prohibited by law or to liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

12. Responsibility for misuse

To the extent permitted by law, you are responsible for claims, losses, and reasonable costs arising from your unlawful use of the services, your material violation of these Terms, or content you post that infringes another person's rights. This section does not apply to the extent a claim results from Nimble Game Studios' own conduct.

13. Applicable law and disputes

Before filing a formal claim, you and Nimble Game Studios agree to make a good-faith effort to resolve it informally for 30 days after written notice. These Terms are governed by applicable United States law and the law of the state in which Nimble Game Studios is principally established, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Mandatory local consumer protections and any court jurisdiction required by law remain unaffected.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as the game and services develop. The current version and effective date will remain available on this page. If a change materially affects registered users, we will provide reasonable notice through the service or account email before the change takes effect when required by law. Continued use after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms.