Make room
for a hello.

Sometimes connection starts with nothing more than being in the same place.

Stick Town is built around that simple idea: a shared place to wander into, meet someone and talk. A familiar face. A passing conversation. A new friend. No elaborate introduction required.

We want the town to feel easy to enter and easy to leave. Explore at your own pace, join a public circle, or take a conversation private by mutual agreement. You decide how long to stay and what to share.

Show up as yourself.

A stick figure, your real face, and a little curiosity.

Give people a choice.

Private chats need consent. Leaving is always an option.

Be a good neighbor.

Respect the people who make this place a town.

Before you wander in

A few things to know.

What is Stick Town?

A shared place to wander, meet people and talk. Your character is a stick figure with your own face. Walk up to a public conversation, say hello, and see where it goes.

Who can join?

Adults aged 18 and over. You must use a current photo of your own real head to create a character. Our adult declaration and photo checks do not verify someone’s identity or age.

Do I need an account?

You can explore as a visitor or create a guest character. A guest character lasts up to 24 hours on that browser. Create an account to save your profile, keep saved chats and add friends. Saved chat history covers messages sent while you are present and is kept for up to 90 days.

Can I walk to another district?

Yes. Follow the main road through either open end to reach the next district. The route loops around and skips districts that are full. Leave your conversation before travelling. You can also choose a district from the Town register.

Who can read a public chat?

Nearby people can read recent public messages, including visitors exploring without a character. Other characters can join a public conversation. Treat public chat as a conversation in a shared space.

How do I start a private 1:1?

You must already be in the same public chat. Open that person’s profile and choose “Request private 1:1.” You both stay in the public chat until they accept. Accepting moves just the two of you into a new private conversation with a fresh message thread. You cannot send this request to someone walking around town or in another conversation.

What happens to the rest of the public chat?

If at least two people remain, their public chat continues. If only one person remains—for example, when two people split off from a three-person chat—the public chat closes and that person returns to exploring town.

Can the whole group go private?

Yes. “Make group private” asks everyone in the current conversation to agree. It keeps the group together. This is separate from requesting a private 1:1 with one person. Everyone must also agree before a private group reopens to the public.

How private is a private conversation?

Only its members receive private messages. Other people cannot join, and reopening the conversation does not reveal earlier private messages. Chats are not end-to-end encrypted. Participants can save, copy, screenshot or report messages, so share thoughtfully.

What if someone makes me uncomfortable?

You can leave any conversation. Open their profile to block or report them. Blocking separates you from that person; reports can include conversation evidence. Reports are reviewed without a guaranteed response time and are not an emergency service.

What are the voices I can hear?

Town ambience uses indistinct recorded crowd sounds, not anyone’s microphone or spoken chat messages. It gets quieter as you move away. Use the speaker button to mute sounds, or Settings to adjust volume and chat cues.

How do heads turn?

Your own face photo stays the front view. We prepare estimated side and back views so your character can face their walking direction or conversation. The unseen views are approximations and may differ from your actual appearance.

Can I delete my data?

Use Saved chats to delete your saved copies, or Profile to delete your character and photo. Deleting your copies does not remove copies saved by other participants or submitted abuse evidence. The legal and privacy information below explains retention.

The town rules

Legal & privacy.

How this place works, what we store, and the responsibilities we share.

You must be 18 or older. Under-18s are prohibited. By entering town, including as a guest or spectator, you declare that you are an adult and accept these rules. This declaration is not age verification.

Be respectful. No harassment, threats, hate, sexual exploitation, impersonation, doxxing, illegal content, or spam. Use a current photo of your own real head. Cartoon faces, invented identities and other people's photos are not allowed. The town may create estimated side and back views from your own photo to animate your character. Leave, block or report anyone making you uncomfortable. Accounts may be suspended for violations.

Guest or saved character. Guests receive a temporary authenticated session without a saved account. A guest character is available for up to 24 hours on that browser; signing out or clearing browser data may lose access sooner. Save an account from your profile using email or an available sign-in provider to keep your character. Already-linked sign-in accounts may need to return to their existing character instead. We do not silently combine accounts.

Your photo and data. Supabase handles authentication, database and private photo storage; Vercel hosts the app and checks browser signals to help block automated activity. Bot checks do not prove identity, age or that a person is continuously present. We store your session or account identifier, public screen name, optional bio, fitted head photo, outfit, rule acceptance, blocks, friend requests, friendships and limited activity metadata. Saved accounts also retain comfort preferences. Your device resizes the photo and removes metadata before server-side detection and fitting. An unconfirmed portrait expires after 15 minutes and is removed during cleanup. The fitted photo and generated head views are kept after saving. To complete small cropped hair edges, the resized photo may be processed by OpenAI through Vercel AI Gateway. Existing photographed pixels are preserved and you review the fitted result before using it. The same providers process fitted photos when estimated side and back views are prepared. These views are estimates, not a 3D scan; the front view remains your original fitted photo. Face detection does not prove identity, age or liveness. We do not store face recognition templates. Your email is not displayed to other players.

Safety reports and restricted records. A report includes its category, the location and explanation you provide, optional contact email, and any player reference. An intimate-image removal notice also requires a contact email, your typed signature, whether you are the depicted person or their representative, and a good-faith nonconsent statement. We record receipt times, deadlines, operator actions and access, and any reporting or preservation references. When a reported player can be identified, we may preserve their existing account and portrait records, generated views, related reports and available conversation context, including private messages, to investigate and meet legal duties. Image hashes help identify identical copies. These records are restricted to authorized operators and service providers that support storage and processing; they are not shown to other players. A private receipt link shows limited status information, not report text or contact details. When email alerts are enabled, Resend delivers the report category, case reference, receipt time, any deadline and a link to the restricted queue to designated operators. These alerts do not include the reported content, signature or reporter contact information. Necessary information may be disclosed to NCMEC or law enforcement as permitted or required by law.

Conversations and saved copies. Public chats are visible to nearby people, including visitors exploring without a character. Recent public messages appear above their speakers. Public portraits, bios and group membership are visible during a spirit visit; visitors do not appear as players. Private chat messages are only delivered to members, and changing a private chat back to public does not publish its previous private messages. A private 1:1 requires both people to be in the same public conversation and the recipient to accept. It moves only those two people into a new room. Changing the whole group’s privacy requires everyone’s agreement. Private chats restrict entry; they are not end-to-end encrypted. Messages sent while a saved-account participant is present are kept in that participant's private chat history for up to 90 days. This includes messages sent by guests. Saving an account starts history for future messages, not messages you missed. Participants may copy, screenshot or report messages. Guests do not receive a saved archive. Live chat and reconnect history is limited to recent messages, which expire after 30 minutes or when a room ends.

Your control. Delete your saved chat copies in Saved chats, or delete your character, photo and generated head views in Profile. This does not delete other participants' copies or submitted abuse evidence. Guest character data becomes eligible for cleanup after expiration; scheduled deletion runs daily, in bounded batches, and may take longer during outages or backlogs. Anonymous authentication metadata follows Supabase's retention policy. Ordinary in-game abuse reports and activity metadata become eligible for cleanup after 30 days. Hosting backups follow the providers' retention policies.

Safety preservation. Safety cases, captured context and decision/access records are kept separately and are excluded from that routine 30-day cleanup. Images and records needed for an open investigation or legal hold may be retained after account deletion or photo replacement. Material included in a completed NCMEC provider report and applicable context must be securely preserved for at least one year after submission; additional legal holds can extend that period. Closing a case does not end an unexpired preservation requirement. Once image preservation ends, detached images become eligible for cleanup; images still in lawful use are not deleted merely because a report was dismissed. See the safety and reporting process, or contact safety@stick.town about a report or retained safety information.

Early beta. Availability and messages are not guaranteed. Ordinary reports are reviewed by the operator without a guaranteed response time. Image-removal notices and child-safety concerns follow the separate safety and reporting process. Reports are not an emergency service.