Flockfire — Terms of Use

Effective date: 2026-10-29 Version 1.1 Operator: Junqiang Guo

Welcome to Flockfire. These Terms explain how you may use the Game, how we provide it, and what happens when something goes wrong. Please pay particular attention to section 3 (accounts), section 6 (anti-cheat), section 7 (Virtual Items), section 8 (purchases and refunds), sections 16–17 (disclaimers and limits on liability) and section 20 (disputes). If you are under 18, please read them with a parent or guardian.

1. About these Terms

These Terms are an agreement between you and Junqiang Guo, an individual developer in Australia who operates Flockfire (星渊战机, "the Game") ("we", "us"). "The Game" includes the app, the servers that provide its accounts, saves, shop and battle settlement, and the Game-related content on our website https://starabyss.app.
By installing, opening or using the Game you confirm that you have read and agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Game and delete it.
If you got the Game from the Apple App Store or Google Play, that store's terms also apply to you. For services the store provides, such as downloads, payment and refunds, the store's terms prevail.
We may publish specific rules in the Game for a particular event, mode or offer (for example event rules, published odds or bundle descriptions). Those rules form part of these Terms and, where they conflict with these Terms on that matter, the specific rules prevail.

2. Who can play

You must be at least 13. If the law where you live, or the age rating a store gives the Game, requires an older age, the higher age applies.
If you are under 18 (or the age of majority where you live), a parent or guardian must read and agree to these Terms before you play, and you need their permission before making any purchase. Parents and guardians are responsible for what minors do in the Game and for purchases made with their accounts or payment methods, and can manage purchases with tools such as Apple's Ask to Buy or Google Play parental controls.
The Game is not offered in mainland China. You must not use the Game anywhere the law prohibits it.

3. Accounts

The first time the Game goes online it automatically creates a guest account for you. You can link an Apple account (Sign in with Apple, on iOS) or a Google account (on Android) at any time so you can recover your progress on a new device. A guest account is tied to a key stored on that device: if you have not linked it, replacing, resetting or losing the device, or deleting the Game, may mean the account is lost for good, and we cannot recover it for you.
Your progress, currencies, gear and purchased benefits are stored on our servers and tied to your account; your device keeps only a cached copy.
When you sign in with Apple or Google, they verify who you are; we never receive your password. Keep your device and sign-in account secure. Anything done through your account is treated as done by you. If you think someone else is using your account, contact us promptly.
Your account is for you alone. You must not sell, rent, transfer or share it, buy or use anyone else's account, or create accounts in bulk to farm rewards.
If the Apple or Google account you link already has other progress attached, the Game asks you which progress to keep. The one you do not choose is not deleted, but this device stops signing in to it.
You can delete your account on the in-game Account page. Deleting it permanently erases your progress, Virtual Items and any remaining benefits, including paid ones. They cannot be restored and are not refunded, except where the law requires otherwise. To meet our tax, accounting, refund-handling and fraud-prevention obligations, we keep purchase and transaction records with your identity removed; see the Privacy Policy.
You can still play when the Game cannot reach our servers, but battles count as practice runs and give no rewards. The shop and reward claims need a connection.
Inactive accounts: we may delete an account that has not signed in for 180 days in a row. Deleting it erases its progress, Virtual Items and benefits, including paid ones; they cannot be restored and are not compensated or refunded.

4. Licence

As long as you follow these Terms, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and revocable licence to download, install and use the Game on devices you own or control, for your own non-commercial entertainment.
The Game is licensed to you, not sold. We and our licensors keep all rights not expressly granted in these Terms.

5. Rules of conduct

When using the Game you must not:

use cheats, trainers, speed hacks, scripts, bots or any tool that automates or simulates play;
decompile, disassemble, crack or modify the Game's client or data, or bypass or interfere with its technical protections;
forge, tamper with or intercept communication between your device and our servers, for example by submitting false battle results;
exploit bugs or glitches for gain, or keep exploiting one you have found without telling us (we welcome bug reports; see section 23);
attack, overload, scan or gain unauthorised access to our servers, or call their interfaces in bulk for purposes other than playing;
buy, sell or trade Virtual Items or accounts, offer or use boosting or third-party top-up services, or buy currency through unofficial channels;
use a nickname that is abusive, discriminatory, sexual, unlawful, infringes anyone's rights, or impersonates anyone else (including us);
harass or threaten other players, or deliberately ruin their games;
use the Game or any part of it commercially (other than the content creation allowed in section 13.3);
break any applicable law.

6. Fair play and anti-cheat

To keep the Game fair, its economy (currencies, crates, gear operations, rewards) is calculated and recorded on our servers. Each battle produces an input recording (your control inputs and the battle's random seed; no audio or video), which is uploaded to our servers when the battle ends. The servers check every result against the rules and replay first clears, new personal records, results that look unusual, and a random sample of other battles. Battles not replayed straight away may be checked later.
If a result does not match its recording or clearly breaks the rules, it is void and earns no rewards. If a later check finds a mismatch, we may take back the currencies and items that battle paid out, and replay every battle on that account for a period afterwards.
If an account breaks section 5, we may, depending on how serious it is: warn you, void results, remove Virtual Items obtained improperly, restrict features, temporarily freeze the account (view only: no playing or purchasing), or ban it permanently. Serious or repeated breaches may lead straight to a ban, without compensation or refund, except where the law requires otherwise.
Automated checks can be wrong (for example, because of a bug on our side), so freezes and bans are decided by a person after review. If you think we got it wrong, email us at the address in section 23 within 30 days, with your player ID. We will look again and reply, and if we made a mistake we will restore your account and anything we removed.
Old versions: so that everyone plays by the same rules, our servers turn away versions of the Game that are too old. If you are asked to update, please install the latest version from the store to carry on.

7. Virtual Items

The Game's virtual currencies (credits, gems, chips, cores, star cores, skill chips, talent shards, event tokens, revive cards, stamina and the like) and its other virtual goods (gear, ships, pass levels, bundle contents, cards, perks and the like), together "Virtual Items", whether earned for free, by watching an ad or by paying, are a limited licence from us to use inside the Game. They are not your property and have no cash value.
Virtual Items cannot be exchanged for money or anything physical, cannot be transferred between players or accounts, and cannot be traded outside the Game. We do not buy Virtual Items back.
To balance or run the Game or fix mistakes, we may change the values, effects, availability and prices of Virtual Items, or withdraw some of them. If we make a significant change that is unfavourable to items people have paid for, we will announce it in the Game in advance.
Random items: crates and similar items give random rewards. The odds are published in the Game, and the outcome is decided by our servers.
Items that expire: limited-time event items and tokens, mail attachments, and day-based cards (such as the Monthly Card, Patrol Card and Ad-Free Passes) must be used or claimed within a time limit and lapse afterwards, as described in the Game.
We may remove or correct Virtual Items received through a bug, by mistake, or by cheating as described in section 6.

8. Purchases and refunds

The Game is free to download. The current version does not sell any paid content: everything in it is earned by playing or by choosing to watch a rewarded ad.
If we offer paid content in a later version, we will update these Terms first and set out here how prices, delivery and refunds work.

9. Advertising

The Game shows rewarded video ads only when you tap a "watch an ad" button, in exchange for a revive, doubled battle rewards, supplies, a refresh, gems and the like.
A reward is given only after you watch the whole ad and the ad network confirms it. If you close the ad early or it fails to play, you get no reward and it does not count towards the daily limit. Each ad placement has daily and interval limits.
Ads are served by Google AdMob, and advertisers are responsible for their ads. Any dealings or disputes between you and an advertiser are between the two of you.
If you have an ad-free benefit (Lifetime Ad-Free or an active Ad-Free Pass), ad rewards are given straight away without watching. In co-op, if anyone in the room has an ad-free benefit, nobody in that battle needs to watch.

10. Co-op play

Co-op supports 1–4 players and currently works only on the same Wi-Fi network or hotspot, by local discovery or room code. The host's device runs the battle and teammates' devices connect to it.
Players in your room can see your nickname, chosen ship and combat stats. When you open a room on Wi-Fi, the room code and your nickname are visible to other devices on that network. Do not use your real name, phone number or other personal details as your nickname.
There is no text or voice chat in the Game. Other players are responsible for their own behaviour. If someone behaves badly, you can leave the room, or email us their nickname and when it happened.
Co-op battles are checked under section 6 too; cheating by any player can void the battle.
Co-op depends on your network (for example, devices cannot see each other on public Wi-Fi that isolates clients), and we cannot guarantee a connection on every network.

11. Updates, maintenance and closure

We update the Game from time to time to fix problems, adjust balance or add content. Some updates must be downloaded from the store before you can keep playing online (see section 6.5).
Our servers may be unavailable for maintenance, upgrades or unexpected problems. We will try to announce planned downtime in advance and keep it short. Daily resets follow server time: midnight Sydney, Australia time.
We may stop operating the Game or parts of it. If we close the whole Game, we will announce it in the Game at least 30 days in advance and stop selling paid content; unused paid content will be dealt with under the stores' policies and applicable law.

12. In-game mail and notices

We may send notices, compensation or rewards through in-game mail or announcements. Mail attachments must be claimed within a time limit and lapse if left unclaimed.
We will give notices about these Terms through in-game announcements, in-game mail or our website https://starabyss.app. To give us notice, email the address in section 23.

13. Intellectual property

The Game's code, art, music, sound effects, text, story, stage and rule design and other content are protected by copyright and other laws, and belong to us or our licensors.
Some images and music in this Game were created with the help of generative AI tools, then selected and edited by hand.
You are welcome to record videos, stream, and share screenshots of the Game, including earning money through a video or streaming platform's standard monetisation programme. Do not suggest that we endorse you, and do not extract the Game's assets to use or sell on their own.
"Flockfire", "星渊战机" and related marks belong to us.

14. Nicknames and feedback

Your nickname is shown to other players in the Game. You promise that it does not infringe anyone's rights or break section 5, and you give us permission to use and display it within the Game. If a nickname breaks the rules, we may ask you to change it or act under section 6.3.
We may freely use any suggestions, comments or bug reports you send us to improve the Game, without paying you. We appreciate every piece of feedback but cannot promise to act on it.

15. Third-party services

The Game relies on third-party services, including Apple's and Google's app stores and payments, Sign in with Apple and Google Sign-In, Google AdMob for ads, and Google Cloud for server hosting. Their own terms and privacy policies also apply when you use them.
We do not control whether third-party services are available or what they contain. If a third-party service fails, changes or shuts down, we will do our best to help, but to the extent the law allows we are not responsible for it.

16. Disclaimer

We work hard to keep the Game stable, fair and fun, but it is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we do not promise that the Game will be uninterrupted, error-free, compatible with every device or suitable for your particular needs, or that our servers will always be available.
Australian Consumer Law: our services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. For major failures with the service, you are entitled to cancel your service contract with us and to a refund for the unused portion, or to compensation for its reduced value. You are also entitled to compensation for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage. If the failure does not amount to a major failure, you are entitled to have problems with the service rectified in a reasonable time and, if this is not done, to cancel your contract and obtain a refund for the unused portion of the contract.
Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any right or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law or any other mandatory law where you live that cannot be excluded by contract.

17. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive loss, or for loss of profits, data, goodwill or opportunity.
To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability in connection with the Game is limited to the lesser of: the amount you actually paid for the Game in the 12 months before your claim, or A$50.
This section does not limit liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including the rights described in sections 16.2 and 16.3 and loss caused by our fraud or wilful misconduct.
Your indemnity: you will indemnify us, and hold us (including the operator personally and anyone working on our behalf) harmless, against any third-party claim, loss, liability or cost (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your breach of these Terms, your breach of the law or your infringement of anyone else's rights.

18. Termination

You can stop using the Game at any time, or delete your account in the Game (see section 3.6).
If you break these Terms, we may act under section 6.3, which includes closing your account. For minor breaches we will warn you first.
If we close the whole Game under section 11.3, these Terms end.
After these Terms end, the parts of sections 7, 13, 16, 17 (including the indemnity in 17.4), 20 and 21 that by their nature should survive continue to apply.

19. Changes to these Terms

We may change these Terms because of changes to the Game, legal requirements or how we run it, and will update the effective date at the top of this page when we do.
For changes that significantly reduce your rights, we will announce them in the Game at least 14 days in advance and, where needed, ask you to accept them again. Continuing to play after a change takes effect means you accept it; if you do not, you can stop playing and delete your account.
The current version is always available in the Game under Settings → Terms of Use and at https://starabyss.app/terms.

20. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia.
If you have a problem or dispute, please email us first (section 23), explaining what happened and what you would like us to do. We will reply within 30 days and try to resolve it fairly.
If we cannot resolve it, the courts of Victoria have exclusive jurisdiction. You agree to bring any proceedings only in those courts and submit to their jurisdiction.

21. General

Entire agreement: these Terms, the Privacy Policy and the specific rules described in section 1.4 are the whole agreement between you and us about the Game.
Severability: if any part of these Terms is found invalid or unenforceable, the rest stays in effect, and that part is applied as closely to its original intent as the law allows.
No waiver: if we do not exercise a right, or delay doing so, we have not given it up.
Assignment: you may not transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our consent. We may transfer the operation of the Game, together with these Terms, to whoever takes it over (for example, a company we set up); we will tell you in advance, and it will not reduce your rights under these Terms.
Events beyond our control: we are not responsible for failing to perform these Terms to the extent that the failure is caused by events beyond our reasonable control, such as natural disasters, widespread network or cloud outages, or government action.
Language: these Terms are available in English and Chinese with the same content. If the two versions differ, the English version prevails.

22. Additional terms for Apple devices

If you downloaded the Game from the Apple App Store, the following also applies:

These Terms are between you and us only, not with Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the Game and its content.
Your use of the Game must also comply with the Usage Rules in the App Store Terms of Service, and is limited to Apple-branded devices that you own or control.
Apple has no obligation whatsoever to provide any maintenance or support services for the Game.
If the Game fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any) of the Game to you. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the Game.
We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims relating to the Game, including product liability claims, claims that the Game fails to meet any legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar laws.
If a third party claims that the Game, or your possession and use of it, infringes their intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are responsible for investigating, defending, settling and discharging that claim.
You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated by the US Government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and once you accept them, Apple has the right to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.

23. Contact us

Operator: Junqiang Guo (Victoria, Australia) Email: [email protected] Web: https://starabyss.app
If you are writing about your account, please include the player ID shown on the in-game Account page so we can find it. Never send us passwords or card details by email.