About Secret Hitler

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About Secret Hitler IO

You can contact the developer at [email protected]. Want to contribute to this open source product? Check out the github page and issues - any accepted pull request will get you a cool teal name!

Application designed and developed from the original board game by Chris Ozols. Due to a fairly complicated UI and text-driven gameplay this application is not mobile-optimized, but should work OK on mobile devices in theory. Source code available at GitHub. Bugs/issues? Contact me via email, discord channel, or open a GitHub issue.

Privacy Policy - general

Your encrypted password is securely stored and is not accessible by anyone. Your user name or any chats you've made is not publicly accessible and not indexed by search engines. Moderators have access to see your IP address on a private moderation panel - this is used solely to guard against cheating and is never publicly available.

Privacy Policy - email addresses (verified accounts)

Email addresses are used for ONLY the following actions: verifying your account, and resetting your password.
In no circumstances will your email address be used for anything other than the above including any sort of mass "email blast".
Only administrators have access to see your email address.
Your email address will never leave the site/will never be given away or sold.

Terms of Use

General

The site is provided free of charge to everyone, and is subject to the occasional failure that is out of our control. We are not responsible for you losing out on a sure win, it happens.

Breaking any of the rules listed below is subject to warnings and moderative action against your account, and in extreme cases we may revoke your access to this site.

Additionally, any malicious activity (i.e. trying to crash the site) or attempts to intentionally subvert rules using gaps in rulings or loopholes will be considered breaking the rules.

Acceptable Language

In general, most language is acceptable.

Forbidden language:

Anything racist
Anything sexist or homophobic
Anything anti-specific-religion or anti-atheism
Hate speech
Directed abuse (personal insults, attacks, harassment, etc.)
Overtly sexual content

Explicitly forbidden words:

Highly racist slurs (i.e. n-word) - Likely ban on sight
Homophobic slurs (i.e. fag)
"Retard" and similar
"Cunt" and similar

Anything not listed above is probably fine to use, provided there is no malicious intent or spam.

This also applies to game room names, even if the room is private, unless it is anonymous only. Any room with a forbidden name will be deleted.

This does not apply to private game chat.

Accounts

Accounts generally follow Acceptable Language for what is allowed on them. Private accounts are not subject to moderation, but can only play in private games.

Account names strictly follow Acceptable Language rules. Any account found breaking this rule will be toggled private.

Card-backs follow Acceptable Language, and additionally must not contain images from the site that can appear over the card-back, anything that would be unsafe for work, or nazi imagery. Card-backs must also be static images. Card-backs breaking this rule will be removed.

Gameplay

All players are expected to play fairly and reasonably in non-casual, non-private games. Casual games are more loosely moderated, and private games are mostly moderation-free.

The following is not allowed:

Colluding or multi-accounting to gain an advantage
Leaving mid-game or refusing to play
Intentionally playing to lose
Intentionally playing sub-optimally (i.e. playing poorly to spite another player), unless it is a casual game
Using tactics not possible in person to gain an advantage (i.e. claiming misclick when conflicting)
Attempting to show private information (i.e. screenshot of cards or role)
Stating which role card you have (i.e. “old lady”)
Using key phrases to share information (i.e. saying “im hit” only as lib)
Using key phrases to influence specific people (i.e. pinky promises)
Threatening to blacklist or report a player if they don’t do what you want
Lying with relevant claims as a liberal, unless covered below
Talking in a language that not everyone knows (english is always acceptable)
Voice-Chat only games, unless explicitly put in the game room name

The following is allowed:

Ignoring “meta” or “correct order” of play
Using a personal meta that does not break the above rules (i.e. never lying on claims)
Having a discussion on what to do, even if it takes a long time, unless all other players are asking for play to continue
Having a play-style that can reveal information (i.e. never conflicting as chancellor), provided it is not claim-based (i.e. only claiming BBB as lib)
Lying about what cards you had or what role you saw as a liberal, and then revealing what you actually had/saw later on (no later than when the deck ends or when 3 reds are on the board)

License and Attribution:

Secret Hitler is designed by Max Temkin (Cards Against Humanity, Humans vs. Zombies) Mike Boxleiter (Solipskier, TouchTone), Tommy Maranges (Philosophy Bro) and illustrated by Mackenzie Schubert (Letter Tycoon, Penny Press).

This game is licensed as per the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

This application is built with:

Front end:

React, Redux, Sass, Semantic UI, jQuery, SocketIO.

Back end:

Node, Express, Pug, Passport, MongoDB with Mongoose, SocketIO.

Alterations to the original game:

Minor image alterations and editing (assets available upon request).
Veto power is slightly adjusted so that chancellors need to select a policy prior to saying yes or no to vetoing that policy.
Adapted the rules explanation to account for online vs physical play.
There is an option when players make a game to "rebalance" the 6, 7 and 9 player games - 6p starts with a fascist policy already enacted, 7p starts with one less fascist policy in the deck, 9p starts with two less fascist policies in the deck. Players (and results from analyzing statistics) have noted that these game modes are not balanced well in the original ruleset.