Web platform

See also: Development whiteboard, User stories.

Community features

Currency

Planned to have two denominators with different value and a conversion rate.

Perhaps a fixed total amount on the platform, with the root Freeblox account acting as the reserve holder.

Denominators can be exchanged, currency can be transacted between players and exchanged for goods in the store.

Currency whole

A larger currency denominator.

Will be rewarded to players:

• Log in every day of the week (1 u)
• Featured game (5 u)
• Top game of the day (1 u)

Name ideas

1. Cylinder
2. Block
3. Tokens

Currency fragment

A smaller currency denominator.

Will be rewarded to players:

• Daily login bonus (10 u)
• Game visit bonus: 10 u per visit of at least 5 min.

Name ideas

1. Sector
2. Bit
3. Points

Voting

All user-created content on the site can be voted on after owning, playing.

Commenting

All user-created content on the site have a comment section.

Character features

See Character.

Store catalog

Character items

• Characters

• Clothing
  • T-Shirt
  • Shirt
  • Pants
• Accessories
  • Hat
  • Face
  • Front
  • Body

Creator items

• Textures
• Meshes
• Sounds
• Models
• Animations?

User privileges and roles

System roles

Role	Description	Privileges	Notes
player	A regular player without restrictions.	web, report, play, shop, community, create:game, create:clothing trade, oidc	Default role assigned on registration
member	Placeholder role, possibly for paid membership or donations	Privileges in addition to those from player: create:accessory
moderator	Website content moderator	Privileges in addition to those from member: ban, privban, contentmod, server:quarantine
admin	Platform administrator	Privileges in addition to those from moderator: permaban, server:stop, server:banhost, server:provision
reduced	Banned users will effectively have this role	web, report

System privileges

Privilege	Provided in	Description	Notes
web	player	Logging in, navigation, views	Available for banned users as well.
report	player	Reporting content
play	player	Play games
shop	player	Buy character items
community	player	Add comments, rate content
trade	player	Trade with other players
oidc	player	Allow logging in to other connected platforms such as the forum
host		Player can host and announce their own server(s)	Automatically assigned after TBD days of account age
contentmod	moderator	The ability to review and moderate user created content
ban	moderator	Ban users from the platform	Up to a month max, no IP ban
privban	moderator	Ban an user privilege	This can be used to disable a feature for a user without creating custom roles
permaban	admin	Ban users and IP addresses/networks from the platform	No limits
contentedit	admin	Edit all fields of content objects, including internal ones, such as max stock
root		The right to do anything	The API does not allow assigning this privilege, only doable from the database or by just using the superuser account
create:game	player	Publish games to the platform
create:clothing	player	Create character clothing items and distribute them
create:accessory	member	Create character accessories and distribute them
create:character		Create new character models
server:quarantine	moderator	Prevent new sessions from being assigned to a server	Moderator only has temporary means of preventing access to a malicious server - must bring it to the attention of an administrator immediately.
server:stop	admin	Stop a server.	Provisioned servers will be shut down, hosted servers will be prevented from announcing themselves until next restart (session revoke).
server:banhost	admin	Ban a server host.	Not available for provisioned servers, hosted servers will be IP banned indefinitely from the platform.
server:provision	admin	Provision new servers from the configured game host pool.

Notes

• 1 superuser account (Freeblox, created using database seeder, default password must be changed on first startup).
• Roles and privileges are set up using database seeder.
• Store categories are set up using database seeder.
• When creating Accessories, the model has to be exported as GLTF binary format and the material must be baked into an albedo texture. Meshes and Textures are separate content objects. Animations are not yet supported/planned.
• Character model will probably need its own format to dictate how it loads and what features it supports. Games should also be able to choose which models are allowed in their game, as asset loading is done at first on the server side.