All About Player Profiles

14 July 2025

Enabling competitive features like leaderboards makes games more engaging, but requires that players can "see" each other. How can we achieve this without exposing children to online risks?

Our games have leaderboards, which allow players to see how they're doing in comparison to other players.

However, as part of our commitment to protecting our players, we don't want children to be able to reveal information about themselves to other players.

To accomplish this, we don't allow players to enter their own names or upload their own avatars. Instead, we've designed a way for players to customize the way they appear in leaderboards without revealing any personal information.

Each player profile has four parts:

  1. Avatar
  2. Name
  3. Title
  4. Suffix

The player's avatar is selected from a list of several hundred options which are included in our game platform already. We call these options members, and they are arranged into collections, such as Animals, Monsters, and Mushrooms. Here are a few examples:

  • Animals
  • Dinosaurs
  • Monsters
  • Mushrooms

The player's name is selected from a list of historical and fantasy names that we've curated for use, such as:

  • Finn
  • Ragnar
  • Tinker
  • Luna

The player's title is selected from a list of professions and activities that players might identify with, for example:

  • Baker
  • Artist
  • Hiker
  • Swimmer

The suffix is a random 4-digit number that the player can't select, and that is assigned by our system to make sure that two players don't have the exact same identity.

Putting it all together, a player profile might look like this:

Animals
Finn the Baker 4298

This allows players to create unique and fun identities for themselves without revealing their own personal information, and without being able to "take over" someone else's identity.