Change a game

What applies when

It depends on the game’s status:

Status	Your edit
Draft	Applies at once
In review	Applies at once, and the reviewer sees the latest version
Changes needed	Applies at once. Then resubmit
Live	Waits for review, except modes

Editing a live game

Your game stays up and unchanged while an update is reviewed. Players see the old values until it is approved.

Reviewed first: name, description, how to play, address, thumbnail, category, universe, languages and links.

Modes are the exception. SDK modes are configuration and apply at once, but the Edit page always sends every field. So saving it on a live game also queues an update for review, even if you only changed the modes, and you cannot save modes while an update is queued. To change only the modes, use an assistant, whose update_game sends just those.

The decision reaches you as a notification on Alldle, and by email when a moderator makes it. If the update is refused, your live listing stays as it was.

Renaming a live game changes its address, and the old one stops working once the new name is approved. Update your links, the badge and the SDK’s data-game.

Known issue: check your rules after an update

Rules edited on a live game can be dropped when the update is approved. If your new rules do not appear, write to us.

One update at a time from the dashboard

While an update is in review, the Edit page lets you look at your fields but not queue another change. From an assistant, further edits are added to the same queued update.

Move your game to a new address

A live game. Change the address on the Edit page. It goes through review like any other edit, and the old address stays in use until then.

A game that is not live. If the new address is on the same site, nothing else changes. www. and the bare domain count as the same site. If it is on a different site, its verification is cleared and it returns to draft, so you verify the new site to send it back to review.

Either way, Alldle checks the new site’s framing headers.

Change the thumbnail

On the Edit page, or from an assistant with set_game_thumbnail and a public image address. On a live game, the new image waits for review and the old one stays up.

Remove a game

Status	How
Draft or In review	Delete in My games, or delete_game from an assistant. This is permanent.
Live or Changes needed	Write to us.

Hand a game over

To let colleagues manage a game with you, add it to a studio. To give a game to someone else, write to us.