This is my website entry for the Halo API Hackathon
Title: Halo 5 Stats - Link:Loading... - Platforms: Web - Description: This is a website where users can look up stats for Halo 5 players. Users can also look at the Arena top 100 leader boards for the current season in each playlist. Users can see detailed Arena and Warzone stats, among other stats! - Goals: The goal of this website was to show stats for Arena and Warzone for each player. Stats include Arena current season playlist stats, last match stats, weapon and medal stats, different charts comparing KD, Win/Loss, rank progress through each level and overall level, and many other things. This project was my first API based project I ever worked on. It was a lot of fun, and I will keep on maintaining it as time goes by. Please provide any feedback, or any problems with this site before the deadline. Thanks!
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> > You might wanna change the name because “Halo 5 Stats” violates Microsoft’s game content usage rules.
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> Could you elaborate on this? Can fan sites not use certain combinations of words relating to Halo?
It just can’t start with Halo. Some fan sites were named before Microsoft created their rules so that’s why you see stuff like Halo Tracker and whatnot.
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> It just can’t start with Halo. Some fan sites were named before Microsoft created their rules so that’s why you see stuff like Halo Tracker and whatnot.
Dang, mine starts with “Halo”.
I’ll see what they say when I submit it, it wouldn’t be much work to change and just $20 wasted on the URLs.
Having said that, they might not care about it too much if you’re not profiting from it? There are plenty of other sites starting with “Halo”, off the top of my head:
In addition, your Items may not use the name of the Microsoft Game in their title to give the impression that Microsoft is the source of the Item, or authorized or endorsed the Item. Items that make referential use of our titles are fine, for example, “Let’s Play Forza Motorsport 5” or “Tips and Strategies for Halo 5.” Using the Game title to tag your Item on social media is fine. We also don’t object to “Red vs. Blue” or “Operation Chastity”. But we may object to “Halo: Covenant Strike,” for example, if it could be confused as something Microsoft produced or licensed, or if it could be mistaken as an official part of the Game. We just want to make sure consumers don’t get confused.
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> In addition, your Items may not use the name of the Microsoft Game in their title to give the impression that Microsoft is the source of the Item, or authorized or endorsed the Item. Items that make referential use of our titles are fine, for example, “Let’s Play Forza Motorsport 5” or “Tips and Strategies for Halo 5.” Using the Game title to tag your Item on social media is fine. We also don’t object to “Red vs. Blue” or “Operation Chastity”. But we may object to “Halo: Covenant Strike,” for example, if it could be confused as something Microsoft produced or licensed, or if it could be mistaken as an official part of the Game. We just want to make sure consumers don’t get confused.
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> You might wanna change the name because “Halo 5 Stats” violates Microsoft’s game content usage rules.
I have a hard time believing this will be an issue for the hackathon, considering this competition is sponsored by Microsoft, encourages Halo specific webstes/apps, and the restriction isn’t mentioned in either the API ToS or the Hackathon Official Rules.
Sounds like there is some confusion around naming of applications so I wanted to clarify what the limitations are:
We will allow Halo in the app name for most cases (like in the quote Seph brought above, we might object to “Halo: Covenant Strike”).
We do however require that every application developed using the APIs will have the following disclaimer, as stated in our Terms of Service (https://developer.haloapi.com/tos):