About HoodPlay

HoodPlay is an independent community directory. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Robinhood Markets, Inc. or Robinhood Chain. Listings are not investment advice.

We list games built on Robinhood Chain, including games without tokens. A token existing does not make something a game, so every listing needs evidence of a playable game and of Robinhood Chain integration.

How games are accepted

Anyone can submit a website, and we also discover games from official ecosystem directories, project feeds and other permitted sources. Acceptance uses fixed, published rules. AI helps summarise pages but can never approve a listing on its own. A game is published automatically when:

• its site loads without suspicious redirects and is not on a threat or block list;
• it shows at least 2 independent signs of being a game, and a play page or store listing responds;
• Robinhood Chain evidence scores at least 3 points: a deployed contract on the chain (3), an official ecosystem directory listing (3), chain configuration found in the site (1), and a mention on the official site (up to 2);
• it is not a duplicate by domain, X account or contract, and shows no impersonation or scam patterns.

Anything uncertain is held, rechecked automatically every 12 hours (up to 6 times), and surfaced for human review.

How we check games

Every listed game's website and play page are checked about every 6 hours. A single timeout, a bot-protection page, a blockchain RPC hiccup, or low on-chain activity never removes a game.

• First failure: marked “Possibly offline” and retried after 30, 120, 360 minutes.
• At least 3 failures over 24+ hours: “Temporarily unavailable”.
• At least 8 confirmed failures over 7+ days: archived and removed from browsing.
• An official shutdown notice archives a game sooner only when the play page also stops working. A finished season is noted, not removed.
• If the website works but the play page doesn't, we mark it “Needs verification” rather than guess.
• Archived games are rechecked daily and restored after 3 successful checks over 24+ hours plus a full re-validation.

How organic ranking works

Sponsorship is never an input. Missing data counts as zero rather than being estimated. Each listed game gets a score out of 100:

• Health (30 pts): share of successful checks over 30 days.
• Evidence (25 pts): strength of verified Robinhood Chain and gameplay evidence.
• Engagement (30 pts): log-scaled unique views and play clicks from this site over 7 days, with bots filtered.
• Freshness (15 pts): decays with a 14-day half-life from listing or the latest verified official update.

The total is multiplied by 0.8 for possibly offline, 0.5 for needs verification, and 0.25 for temporarily unavailable games.

Advertising

One product: Homepage Featured Game, $20.00 per 24 hours. Your game occupies one of 3 sponsored positions in the homepage "Featured" row for every second of the booked period. The order of active sponsors rotates every 10 minutes so each sponsor spends an equal share of time in the first position. A booking does not grant exclusive placement, does not affect organic ranking, and is always labelled "Sponsored".

• Advertising never bypasses listing validation, and sponsorship has no effect on organic ranking.
• Cancel a paid booking more than 24 hours before it starts for a full account credit. Unpaid holds can be released at any time.
• If your game becomes temporarily unavailable, archived, ended, or needs verification during a campaign, the campaign stops and the unused time is credited to your account automatically (pro rata, to the second).
• Credits never expire while your account exists and are applied automatically to your next booking.
• Cash refunds are issued on request for unused credit within 30 days of payment, net of any non-refundable processor fees, by contacting us. Running or completed campaigns are not refundable except for unused time credited as above.

Data we show

Player counts, volume, token prices and similar figures appear only when a reliable integration supplies them; otherwise we show “Unavailable”. We never invent activity, earnings, listings, or reviews.

Our crawler

Our checker identifies itself as HoodPlayBot, fetches only public pages, follows a small number of redirects, and limits how much it downloads. It does not log in, submit forms, or connect wallets.

Posts on X

We automatically post new listings, significant verified updates, and daily or weekly roundups — at most 3 posts a day. We never automate replies, mentions, DMs, likes or follows. Sponsored posts are always labelled.