Horror game content concerns

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#1

(Trigger warning for a lot of the content in this post: violence,religous trauma, gambling addiction, mental illness, etc)

Hey, everyone!

I’m making a horror game and need some advice on what’s allowed on roblox and what’s not. (Also, sorry if the things in this post are not explained correctly, since english isn’t my first language)

Okay, so first of all here’s some important things about the game:

  1. The game will be 13+.

  2. All the blood and guts are gonna be blue. (for asthetic purposes and just so it’s less violent. )

  3. No harmful content in the game, excep, will be glorified or condoned.(the abusing for example. )

  4. All the abusive/too violent scenes will be cut out( so for example a character leaps at another character with a knife, then the screen fades to black, and then the other character is shown bleeding, etc. So the actual attack won’t be seen.)

  5. There will be a huge trigger warning in the description of the game and at the beginning of it.

  6. Most importantly this game us about healing and awareness, again, not glorifying any harmful content in it.

And now onto the things in my game that I’m questioning whether they’re allowed or not:

  1. There’s gonna be a scene where the main character fights a wolf, breaks off one of it’s teeth with a shovel, then once it dies she takes it’s flesh (the process of taking it will not be shown, so the screen will black out and then you’ll be holding a piece of flesh)

  2. You(the player playing as the main character) will make spells and stuff, which are based on the religion Wicca. (I’m not sure if I have to mention this, but I’ll do it anyway, and also it will be slightly off from the actual religion, but still based on it)

  3. At a point in the game you’ll sacrifice butterflies by burning them. (They’ll just turn into ash right away)

  4. There will be mentions of religious abuse, where a character cuts a cross into a character’s hand( I will also cut out the part where it happens and just show the actual carved cross)

  5. A creature (not human, nor animal, I can’t really describe it) will be found in a cave eating another creature like it (there’s a reason for it)

  6. Mentions of gambling addiction (I read in the 13+ description that unplayable gambling is allowed, and the gambling won’t be played in any way, you(as the player), will just watch.And also, again, I’ll be highlighting that gambling is not a good thing (I’m not sure how to describe this without giving away the whole plot if the game)

7.An animal starving (again, can’t really describe this without giving away the plot of the game)

  1. A character slitting the main character’s throat (the main character will survive, but nonetheless.)

  2. A character getting hit by a car.

  3. Schizophrenia (I’m not sure how to explain this either), but there will be 2 endings, one where the character heals, and the other where she doesn’t. (The one where she doesn’t will be warned as unhealthy, and the whole game is about healing, changing for the better, and cutting negative people out of your life)

And that’s basically it. Again I do not condone any harmful behavior in this game( I don’t know why I say that so much, I’m just really paranoid of getting banned for some reason). And the reason I’m even making this post is because I started writing the story for this horror game a while ago and almost at the end remembered that ToS exists-

I saw someone on devforum talk about getting banned for a leaf texture, so I’m just really scared-

Anyway, thank you for reading my post!

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#2

I’m a new game developer by the way, so im not sure how this works.

#3

Some stuff is pushing some boundries but since its 13+, I think it should be fine as long as the gore is contained. Don’t know much about the religious stuff tho.

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#4

Thank you! =]

Im gonna wait for sone more people to leave feedback though, just in case.

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#5

You should read this post about classifying violence in games: Upcoming Changes to Experience Guidelines

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#6

Thank you for suggesting the post!

I read it, and it does answer a lot, but i still have some questions.

So i dont teally know wether the religious stuff’s alowed yet.

And also in the post it said that things associated with gambling (poker, etc) are not allowed. Would it be allowed if i didnt show the gambling at all, and instead just said it happened and then showed the consequences? (I just dony really understand that part)

Also i forgot to mention that the animal starves due to the gambling addiction, so would that be considered animal abuse?

(Also, sorry for replying late, i have classes at the moment)

#7

I suggest you take the experience questionnaire that will guide you and answer a lot of your questions you have here. To do that you go here: https://create.roblox.com/dashboard/creations click on your experience > Audience > Maturity & Compliance. Your experience can be empty, this is just to do the questionnaire.

Keep in mind the target audience of Roblox where about 42 percent of users are under 13 years old.

#8

Okay, thank you, I’ll try that! =]

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