(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:
The game will be 13+.
All the blood and guts are gonna be blue. (for asthetic purposes and just so it’s less violent. )
No harmful content in the game, excep, will be glorified or condoned.(the abusing for example. )
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.)
There will be a huge trigger warning in the description of the game and at the beginning of it.
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:
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)
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)
At a point in the game you’ll sacrifice butterflies by burning them. (They’ll just turn into ash right away)
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)
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)
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)
A character slitting the main character’s throat (the main character will survive, but nonetheless.)
A character getting hit by a car.
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-
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.
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)
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.
yeah you cant do that, a very popular game (which i dont remember) got taken down because the player could cut the necks of enemies, and when resetting the character it showed the player oofing hiself. so no.
this CAN be done, but mentioning ANY religion is against ToS. so if you have any religion scene you have to make it fictional, if you dont want to change symbols and references, give a fictional name.
i mean this is a gray zone: if the creature have an humanoid appareance, ehh i dont know. but if the creature is visibly deformed OR has an animal appareance, cool
almost every game on roblox has car crashes, so dont worry
alright thats all, you game should be fine by avoiding these things.
I’m pretty sure that it got banned not because of the throat slitting thing, but because of the character killing herself, because any mention if suicide/self harm is not allowed on Roblox.
Second:
I’ve read some posts on here, and they say that mentioning religion is fine as long as it doesnt offend anyone. So I’m more concerned about the abuse part. But I’ll look into it some more just to be sure.
And thank you for everything else! Have a good day/night. =]
I think we would need more context then. Because if you’re portraying a specific group as the “bad guys” then someone is bound to get offended. It’s probably better to change names and symbols unless they’re not being show as good/bad or right/wrong
Okay, so the game won’t be painting any group of people as bad, and will only strictly focus on the abuse in the community instead of “how thier traditions/beliefs are wrong”. The context would be that one of the character’s parents is strictly religious and not allow the character to have other beliefs than them (Im not really sure how to explain this). Also this would be just a small segment of the game and not the main focus. (I’m sorry if this is worded poorly)
Also this will be mentioned in the warning at the begining of the game if that helps.