Retro Asset Studio is a local desktop application. This page describes exactly what stays on your PC, what leaves it, and who receives it.
Summary¶
- The app has no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting, and no auto-update. It does not contact GameRoad Studio servers at all.
- The only network traffic the app generates goes to the AI provider you configure (currently Google Gemini; other providers will be added), and only when you start a generation or test a connection.
- Your projects, images, and API keys are stored locally in your Windows user profile. API keys are encrypted.
What leaves your machine¶
When you click a generate button (Character Designer, Asset Generator, Pose Editor, Spritesheet Generator, variants) or Test Connection, the app sends a request directly from your PC to the provider selected in Project Settings:
| Provider | Status | Endpoint | Sent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Gemini | Enabled | The Gemini API (generativelanguage.googleapis.com) | Your prompt and any attached reference images, authenticated with your AI Studio key |
| Hugging Face | Coming soon, disabled | The Nano Banana 2 Gradio Space on huggingface.co | Nothing is sent in this version |
| OpenAI | Coming soon, disabled | api.openai.com Images API | Nothing is sent in this version |
"Your prompt" means the text you typed plus what the app adds to it: the project's style description, background color, resolution hint, and the asset-type template. "Reference images" are only sent when you attach them: a project reference with the Use project reference image checkbox, the source asset when creating a variant, the current frame and the rendered skeleton in the Pose Editor, and the character sprite in the Spritesheet Generator.
Once sent, this data is handled under the provider's own terms of service and privacy policy. Check them if that matters for your project:
- Google (Gemini)
- Hugging Face and OpenAI, once those providers are enabled
Nothing else is transmitted. There is no usage reporting, no "phone home" on startup, and no update check.
What is stored locally¶
Everything lives under:
%APPDATA%\Retro Asset Studio\data\
| Data | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Projects, characters, poses, frames, spritesheets, asset metadata, prompts | app.json |
Plain JSON |
| API keys and tokens | app.json |
Encrypted with the Windows Data Protection API (DPAPI) through Electron's safeStorage. Only your Windows user account on this PC can decrypt them. |
| Generated images, thumbnails, reference images | projects\<id>\ |
PNG files |
Uninstalling the app does not remove this folder.
Exports¶
.rasproj archives created with File > Export Project… contain your project data and images but never your API keys. They are ordinary zip files; anyone you give one to can open it. Prompts you typed are included in the metadata.
Bug reports¶
Error notifications you copy or screenshot for a bug report can contain your prompts and file paths. Redact what you do not want to share, and never attach app.json.
The website¶
retroassetstudio.com and this documentation are static pages served through a content delivery network. They set no cookies and run no analytics scripts. The CDN (Amazon CloudFront) keeps standard access logs, which include the requesting IP address, the requested URL, the time, and the browser's user-agent string, for operational and security purposes. These logs are not combined with any other data and are not used to profile visitors.
Downloads are served the same way, so the same access logging applies to the installer and zip files.
Third-party services you interact with¶
Links in the app and the documentation may take you to Hugging Face, OpenAI, Google, GitHub (the feedback repository), and Ko-fi. Each of those sites has its own privacy policy, and GameRoad Studio does not receive data from them about you, except what you choose to post publicly in the feedback repository.
Your choices¶
- You can use every editing feature of the app without configuring a provider, in which case nothing ever leaves your machine.
- You can remove a provider key at any time by clearing the field in Project Settings and saving.
- Deleting a project removes its files from the data folder immediately.
Contact¶
Questions about privacy: support@retroassetstudio.com.
This page describes version 0.1.0-alpha.1. It will be updated if a future version changes what is collected or transmitted, and the change will be noted in the Changelog.