Is it OK to make a GTA-type game?

Hello,

So I am making a sort of GTA game. This game includes robbing stores & people and it even includes shooting innocent civilians whom are wandering casually on the streets. The latter seemed a little too violent for me for a kids platform. I know that Jailbreak allows robbing stores and that that is OK, but I don’t know about shooting pedestrians.

Thanks for reading!

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Yeah man, Jailbreak and Mad City are like GTA, so as long as the game follows the Roblox TOS, I think you’ll be fine

Okay I haven’t played Mad City, but I don’t think that game includes shooting innocent civilians. Would it be against TOS to allow players to shoot these innocent civilians? 'Cause it seems a little too violent for me.

Making a M+ mature game,no, but down the road I feel like actually Roblox will have 18 up content

Yeah, no. A realistic game where you’re able to massacre innocent people would definitely be violating the Community Standards.

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Yes, as long as the game is at least rated for 13+
Just remove some of the most disturbing content.

Shooting unarmed people is terrorism, avoid this idea.

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But Roblox themselves made implemented the same idea in their tech demo game. My version doesn’t have blood/gore whatsoever. How can they get away with it?

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This is definitely allowed. Plenty of games function like this. As long as you’re not gory or violent, I don’t see the difference between this and games like Jailbreak, ER:LC, or others.

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it’s a tech demo, teaching material. If you’re publishing a finished game where the gameplay involves the player killing bystanders, that’s a very different delivery vessel of the same idea.
IMO any idea where you have to consider if it’s allowed or not should be avoided

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You can keep the idea of killing civilians as long as they aren’t humans. Maybe make them monsters or something?

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Yeah just be creative… People have been replaced with evil robots you gotta use your car to destroy them - is probs totally fine

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Do never say “this is allowed” just because “others games do it”.

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Thanks for the suggestion. Would it be okay to have the civilians be dressed as criminals so that it is in good spirit?

I wouldn’t call shooting people in general good spirit, but I would recommend arming the people you are shooting and giving the player a good reason to shoot them.

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What if, instead of just “innocent civilians,” there are “innocent players.” Have the population of wherever this is be entirely multiplayer based. Kinda like da hood.

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Yeah that is in the game right now, but I thought it might be a bit boring if it was a dead server so I added pedestrians whom you kill for money the same way you do to players. But I think I will take @Crazedbrick1’s recommendation and give these NPCs a “bad look” by giving them guns or whatever.

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Where does it say in my post, that I said what you wrote?
I stated that as long as your game follows Roblox TOS, you shouldn’t run into issues.
Jailbreak and Mad City are amazing examples of what a Roblox GTA would be like, because they follow the Roblox TOS. If you were implying that just because another game is doing it, so you should do it, then you’re a fool.

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I’ve decided to make the civilians fight back, I’ve being notified about the game GPO having a similar concept. In GPO these civilians will fight back if they’re threatened. In my game, these civilians would be cowardly and fear for their life. I will make it so they will fight back so the player will be sort of punished for attacking the civilians.

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