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GameScan

Public Proof for Every Gamer

Overview

GameScan is an open-source gaming accountability, consumer protection, and digital asset intelligence platform designed to document, investigate, and expose deceptive practices across the gaming industry. It provides a centralized, publicly accessible database where gamers can report fraudulent activities, misleading advertisements, broken gameplay mechanics, missing purchases, unauthorized virtual currency deductions, altered digital assets, and unresolved refund disputes involving any game, developer, publisher, marketplace, or gaming platform.

GameScan combines community-submitted reports, publicly accessible evidence, encrypted personal information, AI-powered research, automated patch note monitoring, and digital asset comparisons to establish a historical record of gaming products and consumer experiences. It documents what was advertised, what players purchased, what was delivered, how products changed over time, and whether companies provided refunds or alternative remedies.

The platform is designed to give gamers a collective voice through transparent, independently verifiable documentation. AI assists with evidence analysis, change detection, financial impact assessments, and pattern recognition, while human oversight ensures that allegations, findings, and compensation recommendations are not presented as automatic legal determinations.

Core Objectives

Establish a centralized, open-source database of reported gaming fraud, deceptive practices, and consumer disputes.
Empower gamers to document and report problems involving any game, gaming company, developer, publisher, or platform.
Preserve evidence of digital purchases, monetary transactions, advertisements, and promotional claims.
Protect personal information through encryption, anonymity, and privacy-preserving evidence publication.
Track changes to purchased digital products throughout their lifecycles.
Automatically monitor game updates and analyze patch notes.
Use AI to compare historical and current versions of digital assets.
Identify changes that may materially reduce the value or functionality of purchased products.
Evaluate potential refunds, replacements, and other appropriate compensation.
Document company responses, refund decisions, and proposed workarounds.
Identify recurring consumer complaints and potentially deceptive practices across the gaming industry.
Provide publicly accessible accountability records for gamers, researchers, journalists, and consumer advocacy organizations.
Establish an independent, community-driven source of gaming consumer intelligence.

Core Modules

Game, Company & Platform Database

Maintain a comprehensive database of video games, mobile games, online games, and gaming platforms.
Maintain profiles for game developers, publishers, parent companies, subsidiaries, and marketplace operators.
Document company ownership and relationships between gaming businesses.
Record game descriptions, release dates, supported platforms, publishers, and monetization models.
Maintain historical records of company acquisitions, game ownership changes, and developer transitions.
Associate games with their respective developers, publishers, marketplaces, and parent companies.
Track reported incidents across multiple games operated by the same company.
Provide searchable company and game accountability histories.
Maintain links to official websites, support channels, promotional pages, and update announcements.
Support community submissions of new games and company profiles.

Consumer Complaint & Incident Reporting

Allow gamers to report suspected fraudulent, deceptive, or unfair gaming practices.
Support anonymous and pseudonymous submissions.
Provide structured incident reporting with game, company, platform, date, and complaint category.
Support individual incidents and recurring problems.
Categorize complaints involving:
Unauthorized virtual currency deductions.
Missing or incomplete purchases.
Duplicate purchases and gifts.
Failure to deliver purchased digital products.
Broken gameplay mechanics.
Persistent bugs affecting paid features.
False or misleading advertising.
Undisclosed paywalls.
Unfulfilled promotional rewards.
Changes to previously purchased digital assets.
Removed or discontinued paid content.
Subscription billing disputes.
Misleading discounts and promotional pricing.
Unfair event restrictions.
Refund denials.
Inadequate customer support.
Account restrictions affecting purchased content.
Unfulfilled season passes and battle passes.
Allow users to submit detailed incident descriptions.
Support multiple attachments per incident.
Associate related complaints with an existing incident.
Detect potentially duplicate submissions.
Record reported dates, incident timelines, and estimated financial losses.
Track complaint verification and resolution status.
Maintain historical complaint records and documented corrections.
Allow users to update complaints when companies provide new information or remedies.

Evidence Submission & Public Documentation

Allow users to upload purchase receipts, transaction confirmations, screenshots, videos, and other supporting documentation.
Support evidence of monetary exchanges and virtual currency purchases.
Support screenshots of advertisements, promotional offers, and advertised rewards.
Support documentation of purchased characters, pets, costumes, skins, weapons, and other digital assets.
Support customer support conversations, refund requests, and company responses.
Support patch notes, update announcements, and official developer statements.
Associate evidence with individual complaints, games, companies, and digital assets.
Preserve original evidence in protected storage.
Generate separately redacted public evidence copies.
Allow users to review and approve evidence before public publication.
Automatically detect potentially sensitive information in uploaded documents.
Provide manual redaction tools.
Remove payment card details, addresses, account identifiers, email addresses, and other personally identifiable information from public evidence.
Generate cryptographic file hashes to verify evidence integrity.
Timestamp evidence submissions.
Maintain evidence provenance and verification histories.
Identify duplicate or potentially manipulated submissions.
Allow community members to submit corroborating evidence.
Allow companies to submit official responses and supporting documentation.
Provide public evidence viewing and authorized downloads.
Maintain transparent records of evidence corrections, removals, and moderation actions.

Financial Transaction & Virtual Currency Tracking

Document purchases made using real-world currency.
Track purchases and deductions involving virtual currencies, including Robux and other gaming currencies.
Record transaction dates, advertised prices, purchase amounts, and documented delivery status.
Document missing, incomplete, and unauthorized transactions.
Track purchases of pets, characters, costumes, skins, weapons, upgrades, and other digital products.
Document season passes, battle passes, subscriptions, and premium upgrades.
Track gifted digital purchases and their intended recipients.
Identify duplicate gifts involving items already owned by recipients.
Document situations where virtual currency is deducted without successful delivery.
Compare advertised prices against actual transaction amounts.
Calculate estimated real-world monetary losses.
Calculate estimated virtual currency losses.
Track refunds, partial refunds, credits, and replacement items.
Identify unresolved financial discrepancies.
Aggregate documented consumer losses across games and companies.
Maintain supporting evidence for all financial calculations.
Distinguish verified transaction amounts from user-reported estimates.

Digital Asset Purchase History & Preservation

Maintain historical records of purchased digital assets.
Support pets, characters, costumes, skins, weapons, vehicles, equipment, collectibles, upgrades, and other virtual products.
Record original product descriptions and advertised specifications.
Document original appearance, functionality, abilities, statistics, rarity, and classifications.
Associate digital assets with purchase dates and supporting transaction evidence.
Preserve screenshots and videos documenting original asset characteristics.
Record advertised functionality and promotional claims.
Maintain historical descriptions and asset versions.
Track subsequent modifications, removals, and replacements.
Identify assets that become unusable or materially different following updates.
Maintain a chronological history of documented asset changes.
Compare original purchase representations with current functionality.
Associate asset changes with developer announcements and patch notes.
Allow users to contribute additional documentation when an asset changes.

AI Patch Notes Intelligence

Monitor official patch notes, update announcements, developer publications, and accessible game update documentation.
Automatically collect and archive published update information.
Extract relevant changes from patch notes.
Categorize updates into bug fixes, balance changes, feature additions, feature removals, monetization changes, and digital asset modifications.
Identify references to previously documented digital assets.
Compare new patch notes against historical versions.
Identify changes affecting purchased gameplay features.
Detect announced reductions in abilities, statistics, performance, or functionality.
Identify changes affecting free and paid gameplay features.
Generate AI-written update summaries.
Associate relevant updates with existing complaints and asset records.
Identify discrepancies between announced changes and community-submitted evidence.
Maintain searchable historical patch note archives.
Link every AI finding to its original source.
Notify affected users when relevant changes are detected.

AI Digital Asset Comparison Engine

Compare historical and current versions of digital assets.
Perform image-to-image comparisons.
Analyze video recordings of gameplay functionality.
Compare original and updated product descriptions.
Compare character and pet abilities.
Compare statistics, rarity, classifications, and performance.
Detect removed abilities and reduced functionality.
Identify visual changes to purchased assets.
Detect altered animations and gameplay behavior.
Compare original purchase promises against current functionality.
Identify assets that no longer perform their advertised functions.
Maintain version-by-version comparison histories.
Generate AI explanations of detected differences.
Assign confidence scores to comparison results.
Identify the evidence supporting each detected change.
Allow human reviewers to confirm, reject, or correct AI findings.
Preserve original evidence independently of AI interpretations.

AI Change Impact & Compensation Assessment

Evaluate the potential impact of changes to previously purchased digital products.
Compare original purchase descriptions against current product functionality.
Determine whether a documented change appears material to the original purchase.
Evaluate whether the original purchase purpose has been undermined.
Identify removed or reduced functionality.
Evaluate whether changes were adequately disclosed.
Identify whether developers offered compensation.
Compare proposed remedies with the documented consumer loss.
Estimate potential refund amounts.
Evaluate partial and full refund scenarios.
Estimate appropriate virtual currency credits or replacement values.
Generate individual compensation assessments.
Generate aggregate compensation estimates for affected players.
Produce downloadable evidence-backed compensation reports.

Compensation assessments must distinguish AI recommendations from legal determinations and actual refund entitlements.

Supported assessment categories:

No material change detected.
Minor change with no apparent monetary impact.
Material change requiring further review.
Significant loss of purchased functionality.
Potential partial compensation warranted.
Potential full compensation warranted.
Refund requested but unresolved.
Refund denied or alternative remedy offered.
Insufficient evidence to determine potential impact.

Every assessment must include supporting evidence, reasoning, confidence levels, and any missing information.

Advertising & Promotional Claims Monitoring

Maintain an archive of gaming advertisements and promotional claims.
Accept screenshots, videos, promotional emails, and publicly accessible advertising materials.
Record advertised rewards, prices, discounts, and promotional conditions.
Document advertisements promising free rewards or premium content.
Compare advertised claims against actual availability.
Identify rewards advertised as free that require additional purchases.
Identify promotional content hidden behind paywalls.
Document undisclosed subscription requirements.
Track limited-time offers and promotional countdowns.
Identify discrepancies between promotional imagery and delivered products.
Track changes to advertised offers.
Document expired or unavailable promotions.
Compare advertised features against actual gameplay experiences.
Generate AI-powered advertising discrepancy reports.
Preserve historical promotional documentation.
Link advertising findings to relevant complaints and company profiles.

Event & Reward Accessibility Monitoring

Document event start and end times.
Track event schedules across time zones.
Convert event schedules into local time zones.
Identify region-specific restrictions.
Document events with unusually limited participation windows.
Track rewards requiring additional purchases.
Identify advertised free rewards requiring premium currency.
Document rewards requiring season passes or premium upgrades.
Track limited-time reward availability.
Identify inaccessible, prematurely expired, or unavailable rewards.
Compare advertised reward availability against actual player experiences.
Document event cancellations and schedule changes.
Evaluate whether participation requirements were adequately disclosed.

Refund & Company Response Tracking

Document refund requests submitted by gamers.
Record refund request dates and supporting evidence.
Track company responses and resolution timelines.
Document full and partial refunds.
Record virtual currency credits and replacement items.
Document alternative workarounds offered instead of refunds.
Identify unresolved support tickets.
Track refund approvals and denials.
Compare company responses to similar incidents.
Maintain historical records of company remedies.
Calculate documented refund approval rates.
Calculate average resolution times.
Identify recurring unresolved problems.
Allow companies to submit official responses.
Provide a right-of-response process for companies identified in reports.
Allow users to update incidents when a dispute is resolved.

Community Verification & Accountability

Allow community members to review submitted incidents.
Support independent evidence corroboration.
Allow users to submit additional documentation.
Identify duplicate and related complaints.
Provide evidence quality assessments.
Support discussions attached to individual incidents.
Allow users and companies to challenge inaccurate information.
Provide mechanisms for correcting unsupported claims.
Identify potentially coordinated or suspicious reporting.
Maintain community verification indicators.
Distinguish allegations, verified facts, opinions, and AI-generated assessments.
Track contributor reliability based on documented accuracy.
Maintain transparent moderation histories.
Prevent popularity votes from being treated as proof of wrongdoing.

Game Health & Bug Accountability

Maintain a public database of reported gameplay bugs.
Track bugs affecting purchased features.
Track bugs causing virtual currency losses.
Document bugs causing missing digital items.
Track bugs affecting rewards and progression.
Record the first reported date of each bug.
Document developer acknowledgments.
Track bug status across subsequent updates.
Identify recurring and unresolved bugs.
Compare reported bugs against published patch notes.
Track bugs remaining unresolved across multiple updates.
Document compensation offered for losses caused by bugs.
Generate game reliability reports.
Maintain historical bug timelines.
Associate individual reports with broader recurring incidents.

AI Research & Pattern Detection

Identify recurring consumer complaints across games.
Detect similar monetization practices across different developers.
Identify patterns involving post-purchase asset modifications.
Detect recurring refund denials.
Identify repeated advertising discrepancies.
Identify similar bugs affecting multiple games.
Analyze relationships between game updates and complaint spikes.
Identify recurring virtual currency transaction problems.
Compare documented company responses across games.
Generate cross-company research reports.
Identify potential consumer protection concerns.
Generate evidence-backed research summaries.
Link AI findings to original supporting documentation.
Identify patterns that may warrant independent legal or regulatory review.

Company Accountability Profiles

Create public accountability profiles for gaming companies.
Associate companies with their games, developers, publishers, and subsidiaries.
Display total reported complaints.
Display independently corroborated incidents.
Display unresolved and resolved complaints.
Display refund requests, approvals, and denials.
Display documented virtual currency losses.
Display estimated consumer financial impact.
Display average customer support response times.
Display advertising discrepancy reports.
Display documented paid asset changes.
Display unresolved gameplay bugs.
Display promotional discrepancies.
Maintain company response histories.
Display historical accountability trends.
Compare documented practices across games operated by the same company.
Clearly distinguish reported allegations from substantiated findings.

Public Accountability Dashboard

Provide a centralized overview of documented gaming consumer complaints.
Display the most reported games and companies.
Display common complaint categories.
Display frequently reported gameplay bugs.
Display frequently changed purchased digital assets.
Display documented monetary losses.
Display documented virtual currency losses.
Display refund approval and denial statistics.
Display unresolved complaint statistics.
Display advertising discrepancy reports.
Display AI-detected digital asset changes.
Display recently published patch notes.
Display recently documented company responses.
Display recently resolved incidents.
Display historical industry trends.
Support filtering by company, game, platform, region, date, and incident category.
Provide public access to supporting evidence where publication is authorized.

Search, Discovery & Research

Provide global search across gaming companies, games, and platforms.
Search by game title, developer, publisher, or company.
Search by digital asset name and category.
Search by virtual currency.
Search by complaint category and incident type.
Search by transaction type.
Search historical patch notes and update versions.
Search company responses and refund outcomes.
Search advertising claims and promotional offers.
Filter by date range, platform, region, and verification status.
Support cross-game complaint comparisons.
Provide exportable research reports.
Provide a public API for independent researchers and consumer advocacy organizations.

Notifications & Monitoring

Notify users when their reports receive corroborating evidence.
Notify users when companies respond to submitted complaints.
Notify users when refunds or alternative remedies are documented.
Notify users when previously reported bugs remain unresolved after updates.
Notify users when monitored digital assets change.
Notify users when relevant patch notes are published.
Notify users when promotional claims or rewards change.
Identify new complaints matching existing reports.
Support custom game and company watchlists.
Provide daily, weekly, and monthly accountability summaries.
Support personalized digital asset monitoring.

Privacy, Security & Data Ownership

Support anonymous and pseudonymous reporting.
Encrypt personally identifiable information.
Protect original receipts and transaction records.
Separate private evidence from public evidence.
Provide end-to-end encryption for private communications and applicable sensitive data.
Redact sensitive information before public evidence publication.
Require user approval for public evidence copies.
Prevent public exposure of payment card details, addresses, email addresses, and account identifiers.
Minimize personal information collection.
Provide user-controlled data retention options where legally permissible.
Support secure authentication and multifactor authentication.
Protect against unauthorized evidence access.
Scan uploaded files for malicious content.
Maintain administrative access audit logs.
Protect against account impersonation.
Provide data breach notification procedures.
Support independent security audits.
Publish transparent privacy policies.
Prohibit the sale of personal information.
Prevent private complaint information from being used for targeted advertising.

Evidence Integrity & Transparency Ledger

Maintain append-only incident histories.
Generate cryptographic timestamps.
Verify file integrity through cryptographic hashes.
Preserve historical evidence versions.
Record original submission dates.
Maintain public evidence change histories.
Document evidence corrections and removals.
Preserve AI assessment version histories.
Archive historical patch notes.
Archive company responses and refund outcomes.
Maintain transparent moderation records.
Provide exportable evidence records.
Support independent verification of evidence integrity.
Document legally required removals and privacy-related redactions without unnecessarily exposing protected information.

Legal & Consumer Advocacy Support

Generate organized evidence packages for consumer complaints.
Create transaction and refund timelines.
Generate advertising discrepancy reports.
Generate digital asset change reports.
Calculate documented individual monetary losses.
Provide links to relevant consumer protection agencies.
Provide jurisdiction-specific consumer protection resources.
Organize supporting documentation for payment disputes.
Support documentation for gaming marketplace complaints.
Generate aggregated research for consumer advocacy organizations.
Identify incidents that may warrant regulatory attention.
Help identify potential class-wide consumer complaint patterns.
Generate downloadable reports for attorneys and legal researchers.
Preserve supporting documentation for independent legal evaluation.

GameScan provides documentation and research tools, not legal advice or determinations of fraud, liability, or class action eligibility.

Optional Plugin Modules

Gaming Platform Integrations

Roblox transaction and purchase documentation.
Steam purchase and refund documentation.
Epic Games Store transaction documentation.
PlayStation Store purchase documentation.
Xbox Store purchase documentation.
Nintendo eShop purchase documentation.
Apple App Store gaming purchase documentation.
Google Play gaming purchase documentation.
Third-party gaming marketplace integrations.
Authorized platform data synchronization.
User-provided transaction documentation imports.
Platform-specific virtual currency tracking.

Integrations must respect platform terms, authorized API access, privacy requirements, and applicable data protection laws.

Advanced AI Research Plugins

Advanced image comparison.
Video-based gameplay analysis.
Automated patch note monitoring.
Advertising claim verification.
Digital asset valuation analysis.
Virtual currency loss calculations.
Cross-company pattern detection.
Automated consumer research reports.
Advanced evidence classification.
AI-assisted incident correlation.

Community & Advocacy Plugins

Consumer advocacy organization integration.
Public research collaboration.
Independent evidence verification.
Legal research resource integration.
Consumer complaint submission assistance.
Public awareness campaign documentation.
Petition and collective action documentation.
Researcher collaboration tools.

Developer Accountability Plugins

Official developer response portal.
Official patch note submissions.
Digital asset change documentation.
Refund and compensation reporting.
Public bug acknowledgment system.
Developer-provided resolution updates.
Official advertising and promotional documentation.
Company verification and profile management.

Advanced Monitoring Plugins

Automated game update monitoring.
Digital asset version monitoring.
Promotional offer monitoring.
Subscription pricing monitoring.
Virtual currency pricing monitoring.
Regional event accessibility monitoring.
Automated company response monitoring.
Custom incident alerting.
Historical pricing and purchase comparison.

Advanced Intelligence Features

Digital Purchase Preservation

Maintain a historical record of what consumers purchased, including original descriptions, advertised functionality, transaction evidence, and documented product characteristics.

GameScan must be able to establish:

What was originally advertised?
What did the consumer purchase?
What was delivered?
What functionality did the product originally provide?
What changed after the purchase?
When did the change occur?
Was the change disclosed?
Did the company offer compensation?
Was the consumer provided an adequate remedy?

Cross-Game Consumer Impact Analysis

Identify similar complaints across multiple games.
Associate related incidents with common developers and publishers.
Detect recurring virtual currency deductions.
Identify repeated changes to purchased digital assets.
Identify recurring advertising discrepancies.
Detect patterns involving duplicate gifts and missing purchases.
Compare refund practices across related companies.
Identify potentially systemic consumer protection issues.
Generate cross-game financial impact assessments.
Produce consolidated evidence reports.

Purchased Asset Change & Compensation Timeline

Provide a chronological record of digital purchases and subsequent changes.

Example workflow:

Original Purchase: A gamer purchases a premium digital pet for 1,000 Robux. Its original appearance, abilities, advertised functionality, and purchase evidence are documented.
Developer Update: A subsequent game update changes the pet’s abilities and reduces its effectiveness.
AI Comparison: GameScan compares the original documentation with the updated asset and identifies the differences.
Impact Assessment: AI evaluates the significance of the changes and identifies potential loss of purchased functionality.
Company Response: The developer issues a refund, offers replacement currency, provides an alternative workaround, or declines compensation.
Public Accountability Record: GameScan documents the evidence, AI assessment, company response, and final outcome.

Specification Branding License (SBL)

Standard

Fully AGPL-3.0+ compliant system
Copyleft enforced for network deployments
Required attribution:
Roxanne Ardary
https://www.roxanneardary.com/

Optional

Specification Branding License (SBL)
Attribution-free commercial deployment
Pricing based on scale, usage, and deployment scope
https://roxanneardary.com/gamescan/

License & Notice Requirements

GameScan is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0+).
By contributing to any Open Arsenal project, you agree that your contributions will also be released under this license.

Please note the following:

All contributions must comply with the AGPL-3.0+ terms.
Under Section 7 of the license, all redistributions, forks, and derivative works must preserve attribution to:
Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com.
GameScan specifications are free to use with attribution. A Specification Branding License can be negotiated upon request.
The project’s notice.md file tracks attribution requirements and contributor acknowledgments.
Any update that adds new contributors or modifies attribution should also update notice.md.
When submitting a pull request, ensure that any new files maintain the attribution headers where applicable.
Network-deployed versions of this software must also remain fully AGPL-3.0+ compliant, including exposure of source code modifications when applicable under the license.

For full legal details, please refer to the AGPL-3.0+ license and the project’s notice.md file.

Notice – GameScan

Attribution Requirement: Under Section 7 of the AGPL 3.0+ license, all redistributions, forks, and derivative works, including network-deployed versions of this project, must provide attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com.

Contributors

This file tracks contributors and their specific contributions to the project.

Roxanne Ardary, roxanneardary.com – November 2, 2026
Created the repository for GameScan. Developed the project concept for an open-source gaming accountability platform featuring consumer complaint reporting, public evidence documentation, AI-powered patch note analysis, digital asset change tracking, advertising verification, and refund and compensation assessments.
Add other contributors here – [Date]
[Describe contribution in one sentence]

License – GameScan

This repository is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0+).

Key Points:

You are free to use, modify, and distribute the code.
All redistributions, forks, and derivative works or network-deployed versions must also be licensed under AGPL-3.0+ and provide attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com as required under Section 7 of the license.
The software is provided “as is,” without warranty of any kind.

For the full license text, see GNU AGPL-3.0 License.