Thumbnail guidelines

What gets approved.

Every thumbnail is reviewed by a moderator before it reaches anyone's game. These are the rules they check against — follow them and your submission goes through on the first pass.

Do this

What a good thumbnail looks like.

Clean gameplay
Capture a clear, unobstructed view of the level's gameplay or decoration.
High quality
Crisp, not pixelated. Use the highest quality settings available to you.
Representative
Choose a frame that shows what the level actually looks and feels like.
A recognisable moment
A section a player would recognise beats a random empty stretch of the level.

Avoid this

The three reasons submissions get rejected.

No external UI
No overlays, FPS counters, cheat indicators, mod menus or buttons. The frame must be pure gameplay.
No text overlays
No "verified by", no level names, no watermarks — unless the text is part of the level’s own decoration.
No edited images
Don't push the colours or add effects that aren't in the level. The thumbnail should match what a player sees.
Nothing unrelated
Anything that is not this level, or that would not belong in the game, is removed on sight.
Technical

What the server accepts

Checked automatically on upload, before a moderator ever sees it.

Formats
PNG · JPEG · GIF · WebP · MP4
Animated GIF and short MP4 clips are first-class — they play right on the level cell.
Maximum size
50 MB for images, 25 MB for video
Smaller is better: every player who browses that level downloads it.
Format check
Verified by file signature, not by extension
Renaming a .jpg to .png is rejected as a mismatch. Export properly instead.
Aspect
Landscape, matching the game’s framing
Captures taken in game already come out right. Cropped or stretched images look wrong on the cell.
Process

How a submission travels

From your game to everyone else’s.

01

Capture

Use the in-game capture tool: it detects the scene and gives you a layer editor to compose the shot without leaving the level. Or upload a file you already have.

02

Review

Your submission lands in the verification queue. A moderator checks it against the rules above and approves or rejects it.

03

Live

Once approved it appears on that level’s cell for every player, and anyone can rate it from the thumbnail gallery.

If something slips through

Any player can report a thumbnail from inside the game. Moderators review reports and can remove content or ban accounts that keep breaking the rules. If you think your submission was rejected by mistake, ask in the Discord — there is no appeal queue, but the team reads it.

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