About this course

Slowspan is a small, single-subject workbook published by Hidden Assets s.r.o. It exists to take a reader in Australia from no knowledge of desktop collection role-playing games to a position where they can check things for themselves.

Who publishes it

Slowspan is published by Hidden Assets s.r.o., Blatnická 4219/4, Židenice, 628 00 Brno, Czech Republic. The company registration number is 02402238. The site can be reached by email at info@slowspan.online, and that address is the only way to contact us; there is no form, no telephone line and no chat. The Contact page says what we can and cannot help with.

Authorship of the course is attributed to the Hidden Assets s.r.o. editorial team. There are no named instructors, no contributor profiles and no biographies, because the course does not rest on anyone's reputation. It rests on whether each instruction can be followed and each sourced statement checked.

How the course was structured

The workbook was planned backwards from the five things a newcomer most often gets wrong: not knowing what the genre is before installing it, not checking whether the machine can run it, not understanding how the money works, downloading software from the wrong place, and having no plan for the month afterwards. Each of those became a step, and the steps were then ordered so that no step depends on vocabulary introduced later.

Each step ends in a checklist for the same reason: the test of whether a step has done its job is whether a reader can act without re-reading it. If a checklist item cannot be completed using only what the step explains, the step is wrong, not the reader.

What each step relies on

Step 1

General description of a game genre, written in ordinary language. It makes no claim about any particular product and cites no figures.

Step 2

The system information panels built into Windows, macOS and common Linux desktop environments, described generically. Where it touches consumer expectations, it points to the ACCC; where it touches keeping a system updated, to the Australian Cyber Security Centre.

Step 3

The Australian Classification Board for classification decisions and consumer advice, the ACCC for consumer guarantees, Scamwatch for scam patterns, and the eSafety Commissioner for guidance about families and online games. The step quotes no probabilities, prices or legal thresholds of its own.

Step 4

The Australian Cyber Security Centre on passwords and multi-factor authentication, Scamwatch on impersonation, and the OAIC on what Australian privacy law expects of organisations.

Step 5

eSafety on online conduct, Scamwatch on account-theft patterns, the OAIC on privacy complaints, and the reader's own bank for the controls it offers.

Where a step mentions a specific product, the only statements made about it are those the vendor or the affiliate network provides. Where something is not stated by them, the course says so rather than filling the gap. This is why several passages read as "the vendor does not state this" instead of giving a figure — the figure would be invented, and an invented figure is worse than an admitted blank.

The commercial relationship, stated plainly

This is the part of an editorial method section that is usually left out, so it is here in the middle rather than the end. Hidden Assets s.r.o. earns money from this site through a paid affiliate arrangement. One game, Raid: Shadow Legends, is named in the course, and the links to it are affiliate links: when a reader opens one, registers on the landing page, installs the game and launches the tutorial, the affiliate network that operates the link pays us a commission. The reader pays nothing extra and gets nothing different.

So yes — the one product named in this course is a product we have a commercial relationship with. We think the honest response to that is not to pretend otherwise, and not to pretend to a comparison or a ranking we have not done. The course therefore makes no claim that this title is good, better than others, or suitable for you. It makes no claim about its content, its price or its quality. It names it, discloses the arrangement in full on the Affiliate Disclosure page and beside every single link, and otherwise sends you to the vendor to read their own words with the tools Step 1 gives you.

What decides the course content is the five-mistake structure described above. A commission has never decided a checklist item, and no checklist item would change if the affiliate arrangement ended tomorrow. The simplest test of that is the one offered at the end of Step 5: remove every affiliate link from this site and the course still works, because nothing in it depends on you installing anything.

How often it is reviewed

The whole workbook is reviewed at least twice a year, and sooner if an Australian regulator changes guidance we have linked to, if a link stops working, or if a reader writes to us pointing out an error. The date of the most recent review appears in the footer of every page. When a step changes substantively, the review date changes with it.

Corrections are welcome and are the most useful email we receive. If something here is wrong, out of date or simply unclear, write to info@slowspan.online and say which page and which sentence.

What this site is not

It is not an official site, partner, reseller or authorised source for any game publisher. It is not a news outlet and does not report. It is not a personal blog, and nothing on it is anybody's account of their own experience; the household that appears in the steps is an invented example, and the course says so each time. It is not accredited training, there is no enrolment, no certificate and no record of who has read what. And it is not a download page: no software is hosted here and nothing is installed from this domain.

It also collects nothing. There is no form, no account, no analytics and no cookie on this site, which the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy set out in detail.