You can open Flockbay without an account. Sending to the chat needs one.

Three separate things happen around this app, and only one of them involves an account. Downloading, installing, opening, Play, and the builder: no account, no email address, no card. Sending a message to Flockbay, generated art, and publishing: you sign in. Playing a game you have already built: nothing at all.

That third one matters more than it sounds. What you build is a Godot project in a folder on your own machine, and it becomes an ordinary desktop program. Anybody you hand that program to runs it without a Flockbay account, without our app installed, and without us being involved in any way.

So the account covers exactly one part of this. Not the software, not your files, not the game, not the builder on your machine. The part of building that runs on hardware which is not yours.

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Flockbay writes the GDScript for your game through a model that runs over the network, and that model is your own: your Claude or ChatGPT plan, your own agent, or an API key. What it builds with — the library of ready-made objects and the world data the builder pulls in — comes from our servers, and those serve a signed-in account. The account is free.

There is no anonymous version of that arrangement. A tool doing this work either asks you to sign in when you send, or hands you a small allowance and then asks you to sign in when it runs out, which is the same requirement with a worse moment of discovery.

The sign-in shows up at send, not before you have opened the app. You can make a world, Play, and arrange it first. Flockbay is the moment it is needed.

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It is not where your game lives. Your projects sit in folders on your own disk. The account is what the cloud copy is kept under: since September 2026 Flockbay keeps a copy of each game in it, with 1 GB of room, so a lost laptop is not a lost game. You can switch that off per game, and it is a convenience, not a backup guarantee.

It is not a licence to the engine. Godot is open source and free, and a copy of it ships inside the app. The account does not rent you a renderer.

It is not a seat either. There is no team plan, no per-seat pricing and no enterprise tier. One person, one account, one desktop app.

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Not a card. The account is free. Flockbay is free on your own AI: your Claude or ChatGPT plan, your own agent, or an API key.

Building by hand is not the part that meters. Sculpting terrain, drawing a lake, setting the weather and placing buildings in a 3D project is you doing work on your own machine, and so is dragging out tile ground and placing sprites in a 2D one. What uses your AI is asking Flockbay for behaviour, because that is the part that leaves your computer.

So the free account is a real answer to the objection it raises. You can sign in, spend an evening on a world, and find out whether any of this suits you without paying Flockbay anything.

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People who need a tool that runs entirely on their own machine with nothing phoning out. That is a legitimate requirement, and this is not the tool for it. Godot on its own is free, open source, needs no account and needs no connection. It also expects you to write the code, which is the whole of the trade.

You can try Play and the builder without deciding anything at all. An email address shows up when you send a message to Flockbay. That is a smaller ask than most tools in this space make, and it is still an ask, which is why it belongs at the top of the page rather than buried in a footer.