Quality & Creator Payouts
The full rules behind the Craft / Hot / Feature marks — every threshold and point value. To score your own worlds or characters, open the Check tab.
Marks a world the creator put real work into (independent of popularity). It must clear EVERY hard gate below, then reach 80 craft points (out of 153).
Hard gates · all required
- System prompt long enough — System prompt ≥ 1000 characters
- World intro long enough — World intro ≥ 300 characters
- Creator has played it — The creator has played at least 10 turns
- World stats configured (if installed) — If a World-Stats app is installed, its opening values can't be empty
- Char stats configured (if installed) — If a Character-Stats app is installed, its opening values can't be empty
- Not blocked — The world isn't blocked by content moderation
Craft dimensions · 153 max · need 80
- 20ptCharacter descriptions — Scored by the SHARE of characters whose description reaches 200 chars: none = 0 pts, all = full
- 10ptCharacter portraits — Share of characters with a real image (not an emoji avatar): 0% = 0 pts, all portraits = full
- 10ptCharacter count — 1 character = 0 pts, 5+ = full (map factions count as characters)
- 20ptCreator play-through — Creator's own play: 10 turns = 0 pts, 50 = full
- 12ptSystem prompt depth — System prompt: 1000 chars = 0 pts, 3000 = full
- 8ptIntro depth — World intro: 300 chars = 0 pts, 1000 = full
- 5ptStory opening depth — Story opening: 250 chars = 0 pts, 750 = full
- 10ptApp count — 5–10 apps = full (10 pts), 11–12 = 5, fewer than 5 or more than 12 = 0
- 10ptConfigured apps — Share of installed apps that are actually configured (not left default)
- 10ptMap — The official Map app installed & configured (Map / RPG Map / Tile Map all qualify; self-made apps don't count)
- 5ptVisual novel — The official Visual-Novel app installed & configured (self-made apps don't count)
- 10ptCutscene — Official Cutscene app: 5 presets = 0 pts, 30 = full (self-made apps don't count)
- 5ptMusic — Official Music-Player app: 1 track = 0 pts, 5 = full (self-made apps don't count)
- 8ptAchievements — Official Achievements app: 7 = 0 pts, 16 = full. Needs at least 1 gold + 1 hidden and specific unlock conditions, or it scores 40% (entries with no unlock condition don't count; self-made apps don't count)
- 10ptOriginal (not a remix) — Built from scratch, not remixed from another world
Marks a world real players love. A world first needs 50 real players excluding the author, then every dimension is ranked against the other qualifying worlds, and the top fifth overall earns the mark. Retention, depth, opening hold, return-day rate, replay rate and favorite rate count only players who had already played another world before this one, because newcomers churn far more and a world that brings people to WorldOS would otherwise be penalised for its own traffic. Player count, rating and paying rate use everyone.
Popularity dimensions · 100 weight in total · top 20% is Hot
- 22ptTotal players — Cumulative players excluding the author, ranked against the other qualifying worlds
- 14pt20-turn retention — Share of regulars whose deepest run reached turn 20
- 11ptFavorite rate — Share of regulars who favorited it (favorites from people who never played don't count)
- 10ptOpening hold — Share of regulars who never passed turn 3 — lower scores higher
- 10ptReplay rate — Share of regulars who started more than one run
- 9ptAverage play depth — Average turns per regular
- 9ptReturn-day rate — Share of regulars who played on at least two different days
- 8ptPaying-player rate — Among players who spent Zaps here, the share who have actually paid (all players, newcomers included)
- 7ptRating — All raters, newcomers included. With 5+ raters the real average counts; below that the missing votes are filled in at the site average, so an unrated world is not scored zero
Once a world installs and configures the matching feature app, these emoji marks appear automatically on the card (top-right) and world page — no score threshold, configured = shown:
- 🗺️Map — A configured map app (icon by kind: 🗺️ Map · 🐉 RPG Map · 🔶 Tile Map)
- 🎭Visual Novel — A configured Visual Novel app
- 🎬Cutscenes — Cutscenes configured
- 🎵Music Player — Background music configured (at least 1 track)
- 🎲Dice — A Dice app installed