Hoodut

Terms of use

Last updated: 15 November 2026

This text also exists in Turkish. Both versions have the same content; if they ever differ, the meaning that is more favourable to you applies.

Hoodut is run by Ahmet Ziya Gökalp (the “operator” in this text). For questions: [email protected]

These terms apply once you press “I accept, play” when you first open the game. You can keep this page with your browser's print or save command. How your personal data is processed is explained separately in the privacy text.

The game

Hoodut is a tower defense game played on streets from the real map. The events in the game are fiction. Real places are used only as play areas; the game makes no claim about real people, buildings or places.

In some featured places, famous buildings are shown with the game's own simple drawings. These drawings are not exact copies of the buildings, and the buildings' names are written only to identify the place. The game has no connection with the owners, operators or managers of these buildings and is not endorsed by them. These buildings are never shown destroyed or burnt in the game.

Map data

Play areas are built automatically from open map data. The data may be incomplete or wrong: a building may be missing, misplaced or wrongly shaped, and where no buildings are recorded, houses are placed by estimate. The game is not a source of information about the real world, nor a navigation tool.

Use

The game is currently free and meant for personal use. You must not:

• send heavy automated requests that disrupt the site,
• try to get around the site's security or limits.

If such use is noticed, access may be restricted. These rules do not restrict you from using the open data the game uses as its own licence allows; if you want this data in bulk, just write to us (see “Rights and sources”).

Rights and sources

The game's software, drawings and design belong to its operator.

• Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0: www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
• Building descriptions come from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); a link to the article appears under each text.
• The shapes of buildings missing from the map are building footprints published by the Overture Maps Foundation (footprints that Microsoft and Google extracted from satellite imagery, national cadastres; ODbL).
• Elevation comes from Mapzen Terrain Tiles. These tiles are compiled from SRTM, GMTED2010 and 3DEP (U.S. Geological Survey), ETOPO1 (U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), EU-DEM (Copernicus) and open data from several countries (Canada, the United Kingdom, Austria, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico; ArcticDEM). The full credits these sources ask for appear, in their original wording, in the game's data-sources note.
• The license texts of the open-source software and fonts the game uses are published on the site.

The databases the game derives from OpenStreetMap data (together with Overture building footprints for places outside Türkiye) are also offered under the ODbL 1.0: the map archive for Türkiye, the play areas of the featured places, and the place and street lists. Licence text: opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/ The place and street lists and the files of the featured places are openly available on the site. To get the whole map archive or the other files, write to [email protected]; we send them free of charge.

No guarantee and liability

The game is provided as it is. There is no promise that it will run without interruption or errors. Your records and the places you picked exist only on your device; they are lost if you clear your browser data or remove the app.

This clause does not limit the operator's liability for damage caused intentionally or through gross negligence, or for harm to life, body or health, nor your statutory rights as a consumer; this includes your rights if a feature you bought (such as the Full Version) is defective or not as agreed. Apart from these, the operator is not liable, where the law allows, for damage arising from the use of the free game that results from the operator's slight negligence.

Changes

The game keeps developing; its content and features may change. If these terms change, the change applies only from then on and the date at the top is updated. After an important change, the new text is shown when you open the game and your acceptance is asked for again. Features you bought are not removed without good reason; good reasons are security, a legal obligation or a change in an outside source such as the map data. If a paid feature is added, it will be announced separately and in advance.

Governing law and where to turn

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Türkiye. If you are a consumer, the protections that the law of your country of residence gives you and that cannot be waived by contract also apply; this clause does not remove them. Consumers living in Türkiye can turn to a consumer arbitration committee for disputes below the value limit announced each year, and, for disputes above it, to a consumer court after applying to a mediator. Consumers living in the European Union can also bring a claim before the courts where they live.

If a clause of these terms is found invalid, the other clauses remain valid.