xeroBytes is a software catalogue. Every listing states its price, its licence and how to leave, and no listing is promoted. Categories are organised by what the software does rather than by who made it, which is why Gaming sits beside categories that have nothing to do with games.
Gaming is the category open today, and Rise of Kingdoms is its first title: a commander database, a talent builder, more than a dozen calculators, and reference material such as the Peerless Scholar answer search, the events calendar and The Codex. They are all free to use, and they work without an account, apart from the inventory calculator's screenshot scanner.
Nothing is on sale yet: there is no checkout, no payment provider is connected, and no card details are collected anywhere on this site. The pricing page publishes the first plans ahead of billing, so a team can budget for them; they cover the Rise of Kingdoms kingdom tools — the live map and the pages around it.
xeroBytes is operated by Kirobyte, LLC (in formation), a Texas company. The Rise of Kingdoms material here is unofficial: Kirobyte, LLC is not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored or approved by Lilith Games, the publisher of Rise of Kingdoms.
Privacy questions go to privacy@kirobyte.com, and security problems to the address published in security.txt.
Most of what is published here works without an account; an account is what you need to save and publish work of your own, and to use the inventory calculator's screenshot scanner. In the Rise of Kingdoms tools that means saving talent builds and publishing them under a username, hearting other people's builds, and recording which in-game events you want reminders about; reminders are not being sent yet. Some of those tools, such as the live map, also need a role that a site administrator grants, directly or through an invite link, so signing up does not open them on its own.
You can sign in with an email address and a password, or with Google. If you use Google, Google shares your Google account's name, email address and profile picture with us, together with an identifier for that account. We use them to run your account: signing you in, linking Google sign-in to an existing account with the same email address, sending you account emails, and, when signing in with Google creates your account, setting your starting username and profile picture. Your Google name then becomes your username until you change it in account settings, and anyone can read it the first time you publish something under it, such as a talent build. We do not ask Google for access to your Gmail, Drive, contacts, calendar or anything else in your Google account.
We do not sell account information, including what Google shares, or use it for advertising. The Privacy Policy sets out what is stored, who can see it, how long it is kept, and how to delete it.