For indie game studios · Homeling Verify

Your players need an age check. Your team needs to ship.

Player forums, chat, profiles and user-generated content put even a small studio in scope of the UK Online Safety Act. Verify is one script tag that handles UK, Australian and US age rules per player, so compliance stops competing with the roadmap.

Verify is free to use right now: gate your site with the drop-in snippet, no card and no sales call.

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£18M
or 10% of turnover: the max UK fine
100,000+
online services now in scope
4.7M
under-16 accounts removed (Australia)
Spring 2027
UK under-16 social media ban
Why now

One law put studios in the age-check business

The trap for studios

  • Forums, chat and UGC put you in scope, whatever your team size
  • Enterprise IDV is built and priced for big platforms, not studios
  • Building your own gate is a months-long specialist project
  • Ignoring it is not an option: fines reach £18M or 10% of turnover

What Verify gives your studio

  • One script tag on your forum, launcher or community pages, live the same day
  • Rules auto-switch per player: UK, AU, US
  • Players verify once and reuse their Homeling ID on every later visit
  • You never see or store an ID document, and every check lands in an Ofcom-ready audit trail
Ship the gate in an afternoon. Get back to shipping the game.

Free Ofcom compliance pack

3 minutes, no signup. A children's access assessment, an illegal-content risk assessment and an age-assurance record. Template, not legal advice.

Get the free pack →

Try the gate Product demo

This is the flow your players see, on a fictional studio community (PixelForge). Tap a method: it is a mock, nothing is checked or stored.

What each button does

  • Use my Homeling ID: instant, if the visitor verified anywhere before
  • Estimate my age: on-device signals, nothing leaves the phone
  • Verify with a provider: certified IDV, only when the gate must escalate
  • Whichever they tap, your community only ever receives a yes or no

Developer quickstart

One script tag, pasted just before the closing body tag. data-min-age sets the threshold (13, 16 or 18); leave data-jurisdiction on auto and the gate applies UK, Australian or US state rules per visitor. See it live first →

<script src="https://homeling.abunab.workers.dev/gate.js" data-min-age="16" data-jurisdiction="auto"></script>

This snippet loads the sandbox gate: demo mode, no checks performed. Interim gate live now. Certified checks switch on at onboarding.

Gate your community this week

Free to use right now. Usage-based pricing arrives later, set from what we learn from early users, with plenty of notice. Self-serve, no sales call.

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