Terms of use

This is a courtesy translation. The French version is the only legally binding one and prevails in case of difference.

Version of 2 October 2026.

1. Who, what, when

Openworld is published by Tom Pascard EI, entrepreneur individuel (a French sole trader) (“Pascard”, “we”): contact details in the legal notice. These terms apply to the Openworld service: the website, the update program, the launcher, the game, Pascard's game servers, the account service (core.openworld.pascard.com) and the statistics and bug report service.

You accept them by ticking the box provided when you create your account; without that, no account. If Pascard created your account for you (at an event, for example), you accept them by using it for the first time. For any purchase, the terms of sale apply in addition to these terms.

2. The terms used

• Update program: the “Openworld” program you download from the website; it installs and updates the launcher.
• Account: your Openworld account, the account of one person (email address, password, identity). You log in to it in the launcher.
• Player: a character of your account, with its username, its skin and its identifier. An account can have several players.
• Access code (or license): a code OWL-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX that gives one player access to online play.
• Game server: a computer that runs an Openworld world where people play together, whether it is run by Pascard or by someone else.
• Player content: what you create or write in Openworld: username, skin, builds, chat messages, marker names.

3. A game in alpha

Openworld is under development. During the alpha, the service is provided as is: features arrive, change or disappear, the game balance shifts, bugs exist. Worlds, inventories, positions and builds may be lost or reset, and the service may be interrupted for an update or maintenance. We do our best to avoid this and to give notice in advance when possible.

Updates

The launcher updates the game. Playing online may require the latest version.

The update program installs itself to start with your computer: when your session opens (on macOS, also once a day), it starts without a window, installs the launcher's updates (signed, and verified before they are installed), then starts the launcher without a window, which sends a short signal to our servers and closes. You can stop this whenever you like: in the launcher, Settings > “Start Openworld with my computer”.

Uninstalling Openworld: first turn this setting off, which removes the automatic start, then delete the application. If you have already deleted the application, remove “Openworld” from your system's startup items (macOS: System Settings > General > Login Items; Windows: Settings > Apps > Startup; Linux: your desktop's startup applications).

Statistics and bug reports

To improve Openworld, the launcher asks you once whether you agree to send usage statistics: your computer, your games, your settings, performance, and the lines you send in the public chat. Nothing is sent without your consent; refusing changes nothing about the game, and you can change your mind whenever you like: Settings > “Send usage statistics”. The details: the privacy policy.

If you run a dedicated server, it sends us statistics about itself (version, uptime, number of players, performance, machine, name, world, port, settings), never the identity of its players or their chat. A notice announces it in the console at every start; you turn them off with the --no-telemetry option or the OW_NO_TELEMETRY=1 environment variable. The server of a single-player or local network game sends nothing without your consent to statistics. The details: the privacy policy.

The bug report (pause menu or /report) is for telling us about a real problem with the game. Do not abuse it: no spam or reports in series, no fake reports, nothing illegal, insulting or shocking in the text or the screenshots, and no personal information about other people beyond what the game displays. Abuse is handled like any breach of these terms (section 10).

4. Your account

Who can open an account

An account belongs to a natural person aged 15 or older. Between 15 and 18, talk to your parents about it: they remain responsible for you.

Under 15: no account in your name. A parent (or your legal guardian) creates their own account, accepts these terms, then creates your player in their account. They remain responsible for what this player does, and we advise them to keep an eye on your play, especially the chat with other players. We recommend Openworld from age 7: the game contains fights against creatures, without shocking images, and a chat with other players.

We may ask for proof of age or of a parent's consent, and close an account opened in breach of these rules.

Accurate information

You give your real first name, your real last name, your real date of birth and an email address that belongs to you. If they change, write to us to correct them.

One account, one person

Your account is personal: you do not lend it, sell it or share it. Several people in the same family can each have their own account, logged in on the same computer.

Your password

Keep it secret and do not use the same one anywhere else. If someone else got hold of it, change it (“Forgot password?” in the launcher) and let us know. Anything done with your account is deemed to have been done by you, unless you have reported to us that it was stolen.

Your players and their usernames

Each player needs access: an access code today, a purchase later. A username is 3 to 16 characters long (letters, digits, _), and it is unique. No username that is insulting or misleading (imitating Pascard, a moderator or another player), or that uses a brand or the name of a real person without their consent. We may rename a username that breaks these rules.

5. Access codes

An access code gives one player access to online play. It can be used only once and may have a use-by date. Once used, it stays attached to that player.

• Free code given by Pascard (event, gift, press, alpha): it gives no right to any refund or compensation, and it may not be sold.
• Purchased code: the terms of sale apply if it comes from Pascard; the seller's terms apply if it comes from an authorized reseller.
• Reselling codes or exchanging them for money is prohibited without Pascard's written consent.

A code obtained by fraud (stolen, guessed, bought from an unauthorized seller) or used in breach of these terms may be revoked: the player then loses access to online play.

6. Your right to use the game

Pascard gives you the personal, non-exclusive and non-transferable right to install the launcher and the game on your devices and to use them for your private use, in accordance with these terms. Receiving or buying a code gives you this right of use, not ownership of the game: the game, its code, its graphics, its sounds and the name “Openworld” remain Pascard's.

You may

• play, alone or with others;
• take screenshots, make videos and live streams of your games, and share them, even on a monetized channel, as long as you do not present them as official;
• share the website's download link.

You may not

• sell, rent, lend or redistribute the game or the launcher;
• decompile them, disassemble them or extract their code, except in the cases allowed by law (Article L. 122-6-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code);
• cheat: modify the game's files or its exchanges with the servers, use a modified client, cheating software, a bot or a macro that plays for you;
• exploit a bug to gain an advantage: report it instead, with a bug report in the game or to contact@pascard.com;
• bypass the verification of accounts or codes, attack, overload or probe the servers and the account service;
• collect information about other players in bulk.

The game's items, blocks and resources have no real-money value: they do not belong to you and may not be sold for money. The open-source libraries used by the game remain under their own license, which these terms do not restrict.

7. Your creations

Your username, your skin, your builds and your messages remain yours. For the game to work, you grant Pascard, free of charge and worldwide, the non-exclusive right to store them, reproduce them, adapt them for display and show them to other players in Openworld, and to show them to present the game (a screenshot of a world featuring your build, for example), for the entire duration of copyright. This right ends for whatever disappears with your account, except for screenshots already published.

You guarantee that you have the right to use what you publish: no logos, characters or images copied without permission. We do not check content in advance, but we may remove or modify content that breaks these terms or the law.

8. Rules of conduct

In the chat, in the game, in usernames, skins and builds:

• Respect others: no insults, harassment, threats, discrimination or hatred (origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability…), no glorification of crimes or terrorism.
• Many players are young: no sexual or pornographic content, nothing shocking.
• Protect yourself and others: never give out your address, your phone number, your school, your photos or your passwords, or those of someone else; do not suggest meeting up to a stranger. An adult who solicits a minor is reported to the authorities.
• No spam or scams: no flooding, advertising or malicious links, no selling items, accounts or codes for money.
• No impersonation: do not pretend to be Pascard, a moderator or another player.
• No cheating (see section 6).
• Respect the law, copyright and other people's privacy.

A server may add its own rules (combat between players, protected builds…): respect them too.

The chat is not private. Other players read it; and, if you have accepted usage statistics, the lines you send in the public chat and the commands you type are recorded for 90 days. Pascard may read them again for player safety, moderation and improving the game. The statistics never record private messages.

9. Game servers

Pascard runs its own servers. The game also lets anyone open their own, online, on a local network or in single-player mode.

A server opened by someone else is under that person's sole responsibility: its rules, its moderation, its availability and what it records. When you join it, it receives your username, your player's identifier, your skin and your IP address. Pascard does not control it and is not answerable for it; still, report any serious problem to us, as we can act on the accounts involved.

If you open a server, you comply with the law and these terms, you use the player data you receive only to run your server, and you are responsible for it. In single-player mode, your world stays on your computer.

10. Moderation and sanctions

Reporting

Write to contact@pascard.com, subject “Report”, stating: what the problem is and why, where to find it (server, username, date, screenshot if possible), your name and your email address, and that you are reporting it in good faith. We acknowledge receipt, review every report carefully and tell you what we have decided. This address is Openworld's point of contact, in French or in English, for users and authorities alike.

What we can do

If these terms or the law are not complied with, Pascard and the administrators he appoints may, depending on how serious it is: remove or rename content or a username, give a warning, suspend a player or an account for a period of time, ban a player or an account, revoke a code. A sanction on an account blocks all its players; a sanction on a player lets the account's other players keep playing. A serious breach (organized cheating, threats, sexual content involving a minor, fraud) may lead to an immediate ban, without warning.

The only automated tool is the refusal, at creation, of certain reserved usernames. All other decisions are made by a person.

You know why, and you can challenge it

We inform you by email of the decision, its reason (the rule broken and the facts), its duration and how to challenge it, unless the law forbids it or doing so would compromise an investigation. To challenge it, reply to that email or write to contact@pascard.com within six months: a person reviews the decision again. You can also take the matter to court.

Seriously illegal content (child sexual abuse, terrorism, a threat to someone's life) is reported to the authorities, in particular on internet-signalement.gouv.fr (the French government's official reporting platform).

11. Health

Take a 10 to 15 minute break every hour, play in a well-lit room, at a good distance from the screen, and avoid playing when you are tired.

Epilepsy: some people may have an epileptic seizure or lose consciousness when exposed to flashing lights, even if they have never had one before. If you or anyone in your family has ever had this kind of symptom, ask a doctor for advice before playing. Stop immediately and see a doctor if you experience dizziness, vision problems, eye or muscle twitching, loss of consciousness, involuntary movements or convulsions.

12. Liability

Pascard does its best to make the service work and keep it safe, without being able to guarantee that it is always available or free of errors during the alpha. Pascard is not responsible for loss of progress linked to the alpha (section 3), for servers run by others, for what other players publish, for your hardware or your internet connection, or for a case of force majeure.

Nothing in these terms limits Pascard's liability where the law forbids it (bodily injury, gross or intentional misconduct), nor your rights as a consumer, including the legal guarantee of conformity for purchased digital content (see the terms of sale).

You are responsible for what you do with your account and for your content, and for any damage caused by use contrary to these terms.

13. Closing an account, ending the service

You: you can stop whenever you want. To delete your account, write to contact@pascard.com from your account's email address; it is done within the month, permanently (account, players, skins, as well as the statistics and bug reports linked to the account, screenshots included). A code that has already been used is not refunded, except as provided in the terms of sale.

Inactive accounts: an account never verified by email is deleted 30 days after it was created. An account with no login for 3 years is deleted, after an email that warns you one month beforehand.

Pascard may change the service, stop part of it or reset the worlds, in particular at the end of the alpha. If online play ever had to stop for good, we would warn you at least 3 months in advance, by email and in the launcher.

14. Changes to these terms

These terms may change (new features, purchases, changes in the law). We inform you by email or in the launcher at least 30 days before a new version applies, except in a legal or security emergency. If you do not accept it, you can delete your account before that date; if you keep playing after that, it applies. Previous versions are sent to you on request.

15. Applicable law and disputes

These terms are governed by French law. If there is a problem, write to us first: most issues are settled quickly. For a purchase, you can also use consumer mediation, free of charge (see the terms of sale). Failing an agreement, the dispute goes before the courts that have jurisdiction under the law; if you are a consumer, you can bring it before the court for the place where you live.

These terms are written in French. This English text is a courtesy translation: in case of any difference between the two, the French version prevails.