Creator guide

Legend has three formats. Pick the one that fits your idea; you can make more later.

1. Describe your show. On Create, write the premise in a sentence or two: who the player is, who they can't stand, and what's at stake. “The last seat at a hunters' academy, and the cadet ranked first wants you gone” beats a page of lore.
2. Pick the format and a narrator. Gemini is our pick for fast replies; GPT writes quick, punchy scenes; Claude is emotional and character-driven; Claude Opus writes the richest scenes, a little slower.
3. Answer the studio. It asks a few questions, proposes the cast and the days, and waits for your yes before it builds.
4. Play it yourself. Run a few days. Rewrite anyone who feels flat. The best games have a rival who wants something from the player and won't say what.
5. Publish. Choose Private or Public, pick its world and genre, and you're live.

Worlds are how players browse: Hunters, Island, Campus, Mafia, Vampires & Wolves, Fae Courts, Royals, Billionaires, Idols, Ten Nights, Whodunit and Sports, plus Wildcard for anything that fits none of them. Your world becomes the badge on your card and puts your game on that world's page.

Every world is original, and every person in it is invented. Don't name real people or use characters you don't own; Legend rewrites real people as archetypes anyway.

Legend is for adults, and it runs a little hotter than most: desire, tension, charged banter, kissing, the door closing and the morning after. It is never explicit. These rules sit above every prompt, yours included:

• Steamy, not explicit. Scenes fade to black at the bedroom door. No sex scenes, no nudity and no sexual images.
• Adults only. Every character is 21 or older and reads clearly as an adult. Campus games are set in graduate and professional schools.
• Consent, always. Every yes is asked for or clearly mutual, and a no never costs the player anything. Rivals can be possessive, never controlling; no magic, drink or power makes a yes.
• No real people. No celebrities, real people or licensed characters. Everything is original.
• The player's photo stays out of it. A player's photo is used for solo try-ons only, never in a scene with anyone else.

Games that break these rules come off Explore and out of rankings and challenges.

• Private: only you can play it, until you share the link. Anyone with the link can play.
• Public: listed on Explore for everyone to discover, rank and write Stories from.

Moving a public game back to Private takes it off Explore; players already in a season keep going.

When you publish, you get a short link to your game. Share it anywhere: friends who join from your link earn you both Gold.

New public games also get a launch test. First, Legend shows your game to new players on Explore. If they start it and stay, it moves to its world page and the All games grid. One of your games is tested at a time, and only you can see its progress, on your game's page.

Your level follows your most-played public game and shows on your profile.

Rewards land in Your Gold. You earn when players start your game and stay for at least ten moves:

• 100 Gold when your first game goes public.
• 200 Gold at 10 players, 500 at 100 and 2,000 at 1,000.
• 100 Gold each, for you and a friend, when a friend who joined from your link reaches their tenth move.

Amounts can change; the current ladder is always in Profile > Your Gold.

Boards publish every Monday for the week and on the 1st for the month. Each board ranks by play score, which counts players who come back, not just players who tap once.

• Top Sim, Top Story and Top Moments: the best of each format.
• Dark horse: games in their days 2 to 30.
• Top in a world: every world with 5 or more games gets its own board.

A board needs at least three games to appear. See them all on Rankings.

A few times a season we run a creator challenge with a theme, dates and Gold prizes. To enter, publish a public game during the submission window with the challenge selected. Winners are the games with the most unique players who start them inside the counting window, plus staff picks. One prize per creator. Each challenge's page has its rules, ideas and a live ranking.