June 16, 2025

Dear SIMMER.io community,

I'm heads down focused now on getting SIMMER.io back up and running on a new hosting platform. There's a ton of migration work to do, and new hosting costs associated with the work.

Currently, I *think* I'll be able to restore all old games and accounts.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to reach out! Our discord channel is still alive too.

Rocco at SIMMER dot io

PS. You can support the revival of SIMMER.io financially at https://buymeacoffee.com/simmerio

April 19, 2025

Dear SIMMER and ShareMyGame users,

This is Rocco from SIMMER.io — the WebGL game sharing site you signed up for.

I have some very unfortunate news:
SIMMER.io and ShareMyGame.com are now discontinued.
At this time, there’s a strong likelihood they will not return.

Despite having billing alerts in place, I was hit with astronomical cloud bills while the site was under attack from bad actor(s). I’m currently working with the cloud providers to negotiate forgiveness for those charges.

The events unfolded like this:

• Two upload attacks (which I mitigated)
• Followed by seven DDoS attacks across multiple cloud providers and storage buckets
• All happening in a matter of days

There’s a Reddit post about my worst cloud bill that you can help upvote.

• ✅ No evidence that payment info was compromised (SIMMERconnect used a separate billing provider)
• ✅ No evidence of leaked email addresses or password hashes
• ✅ Sensitive login info was stored via Google Authentication, not SIMMER servers
• ✅ There’s no sign of mass scraping of games
• 🔁 The attacker repeatedly requested a small, nonsensical subset of files — not full games
• 🌐 Some public data (like game names, descriptions, profiles) could have been scraped, as is the nature of open web content

• You’ll get a full refund on your final bill by Wednesday, April 23
• If a payment occurred after April 11, I’ll refund your last two payments
• I may set up an optional form where you can choose not to receive your refund to support me and the project
• Expect an email from me later today

I had to delete the main storage buckets during the attack to stop the financial bleed. However, I backed up game data to another cloud provider:

• ✅ Most games were preserved
• ⚠️ A small number (<0.1%) may have failed to copy during the backup process
• ⏳ I’m working on building a secure recovery tool for you to access your games

Note: I'm also working to reconstruct missing index.html files, which weren’t collected during upload.

• Suspend services across half a dozen cloud providers
• File and escalate tickets across three cloud platforms
• Lock everything down to stop further damage

I had a small team of curators and one support person, but otherwise, I ran SIMMER as a solo indie dev — technical, devops, security, everything.

This has been a devastating blow. I’ve spent nearly 8 years building SIMMER — with 2 years of full-time focus. I quit my job last year to go all-in, hoping to grow this into a sustainable platform for indie developers.

I did what I could to keep it secure — like using Cloudflare CDN — but my resources were limited. I'm relieved there’s no evidence of private data being compromised.

I’m incredibly sorry for the loss of service, especially to those who supported SIMMER creatively or financially.

• I’ll follow up soon with options to recover your uploaded games
• Refund options will be sent to all SIMMERconnect subscribers
• I may offer a way to donate if you’d like to support me personally
• This page is live at https://simmer.io (still under attack)
• Backup updates will be posted at GitHub status page

Thank you for being part of this community — and for giving this project a chance.

—Rocco
Founder, SIMMER.io