Tentpole is made by Tentpole LLC, a Missouri limited liability company. For questions
or partnership opportunities, contact
jesse@tentpolegame.com.
Terms of play
It's a game. Every film Tentpole produces is fiction: the title, the synopsis,
the review quote, the box office, the critic score, the verdict — all of it. None of it
reports, predicts, or reflects the real work or prospects of any actor, director, studio,
or publication.
The writing is generated by software — a language model working from the picks
you make. It can be wrong, odd, or say something nobody intended. If a picture has crossed
a line, tell us and we'll take it down.
Real names are used to identify real things. Films, people, studios, ratings,
and review outlets appear here for identification and commentary. Nobody named on this
site is affiliated with Tentpole, endorses it, or had anything to do with the film it
invented. Poster art and film metadata come from
OMDb and belong
to their rights holders.
Your picture is yours to share. Post the card, send the link, print it. We only
ask that you don't pass it off as a real film or a real review.
Play it by hand. Don't scrape the site, drive it with bots, hammer the API, or
try to break it. The game costs us money every time it runs.
It's provided as is. We don't promise it will be available, correct, or the same
tomorrow. We may change the game, the scoring, the writing, or retire it, at any time.
Liability. To the extent the law allows, Tentpole LLC isn't liable for anything
arising from playing the game or from a picture it produced, and our total liability to
you is limited to what you've paid us — which is nothing, unless you tipped, in which case
it's the tip.
Tips are gifts. They're voluntary, non-refundable, and buy nothing: no feature,
no removal, no promise. They keep the writer paid, literally. Payment is handled by
Stripe; we never see your card.
Law. These terms are governed by the laws of Missouri, United States. If any
part of them can't be enforced, the rest still stands.
Changes. If these terms change, the new ones go here, with the date at the top.
Playing after that is agreeing to them.
Privacy
No accounts. We don't ask for your name, your email, or anything else to play.
In your browser: the first time you play, the page makes two random IDs — one
that lasts the session and one that lasts until you clear site data. They tell one
player's games from another's. They aren't linked to you, and we can't link them.
What we log: for each film you greenlight, the picks, the numbers, the writing,
and the time, tied to those IDs. We don't log your IP address, your location, or your
browser or device.
Analytics:Plausible,
which is cookieless and collects no personal data — page views and game events, in
aggregate.
Tips: handled by Stripe
on Stripe's own page, under Stripe's own privacy policy. We see your name, your email,
and the amount, and nothing else.
Share links: every film you greenlight gets a page at tentpolegame.com/m/… that
anyone holding the link can see, indefinitely. Nothing on it identifies you.
Where it lives: the site runs on Netlify; the logbook is kept on Google Cloud.
Nothing is sold, no ads are shown, and nothing is shared beyond the services named here.
Kids: Tentpole isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly
collect anything from them — we collect almost nothing from anyone.
Starting over: clear site data for tentpolegame.com and you're a new player.