I’m making a game with some buds and we’re always wondering what’s considered “overly violent” as that was the only context we got in the community rules. Viewing another thread I just decided it would be good to post and ask, rather than to discover a mistake later on.
Would something like this be acceptable? A dead fox being slung over a shoulder? Even the display of animal pelts? Or what about exposed bone on a fleshed enemy?
We want the game accessible on Xbox, so we also understand that there’s rules for that as well. Rules just seem too unclear to us. Maybe we just didn’t look at the right places.
Word.
I told one of my builders to hold off on the guts spilling out of it, I’m just wondering whats “too graphic” as that package just has a chunk missing out of it. But thanks, when I come to think of it, a lot of packages use exposed bone and whatnot.
Exposed bone seems alright since the art style is not realistic. I would probably refrain from putting any kind of blood or other bright red parts on any of the models, since that is usually a pretty clear indicator that it is too gory to pass the console guidelines. As you can see the zombie package is pure bone and skin, no flesh or blood is shown.
As long as there is no blood or gore you should be fine. That is all what ROBLOX satisfies. A dead fox being slung over a shoulder, flesh or exposed bones should be fine. Also as TJT01 said, ROBLOX made a bundle which contains exposed bones and cut flesh, the zombie bundle. That confirms what I said above.
It all depends on how violent you want the game to be. Roblox isn’t going to take a game down over a fox hanging over a shoulder. There are way more violent games out there such as Phantom Forces who uses firearms and blood in their game. I think you’ll be fine if you don’t extend it to extremely graphic content.
Doesn’t seem like it, as the rules for console like someone else posted is pretty much just anything non-child friendly. So anything bloody, or gore, or extreme violence. But harvesting pelts on an animal without any guts or anything hanging out doesn’t seem like a problem.
(And I made a scene where there was a half decomposing skeleton with some guts hanging out.)
For the dead fox, there definitely shouldn’t be a problem, as it says Intense violence. As for blood and guts spilling out, that probably is not allowed because that would violate the category of intense violence and/or blood/gore.
A little bit late to the conversation here but I believe The Northern Frontier makes moderate use of animal pelts in its survival-style environment. I suspect that would be totally fine. I mean Broken Bones is all about fracturing and breaking your body. As long as it isn’t graphic, involving gore or whatnot, I imagine it should be fine.
I am pretty sure blood and gore is allowed on ROBLOX but it is against the rules if you want to make your game XBOX compatible meanwhile it contains blood and gore. I am sure that Phantom Forces is not XBOX compatible.
People ofter talks about the graphism, but i believe the very real issue is the “idea” behind the acts,
Let me clarify in a very simple way : Roblox has banned “or” Reviewed for the following :
Cannibalism (Ro-Ghouls) for their “detailed” eat animation & appearances
Disturbing Actions (Ro-Bio) for their very realistic and horrible situation representing illegal acts
Ro Ghouls was just being told to change their way of doings since you could eat humans or ghouls as “Ghouls”, it may have disturbed a few young players since they are technically not zombie, but owns a human appearance, which may lead to very confusing thoughts “omg a human ate another human !!”, i believe you can still eat humans nowadays but it has been very simplified.
Ro-Bio is a banned game, RIP since i liked it alot, i believe that this was a very worrisome game since this game had a concept that was very cruel, You are a scientists and research “negative effects” products via testing it on Innocent (could i say captured?) humans from the world.
It wasn’t all about it, the whole atmosphere and ambient (BGM & Colors) as well the patient’s SFX and Chats from the humanoid made it results into something very realistic and sad, To the point you’d feel guilty to a extend, the NPC discussions is all about revenge or them asking for mercy, but they all dies whenever you use them as a Test or change patients.
To answer it overall, i’m most likely 100% confident that your current content will be approved, and will most probably not be considered as Gore or Bloody mainly because it’s a act of survival, roasting animals you hunted to prepare yourself a meal is nothing more than natural and is common knowledge to everyone.
It looks really good not going to lie, are you attempting to make that a statue? Or just like an avatar ( custom avatar ) a player can get? If so, this doesn’t seem like it is against ToS at all, considering games like Phantom Forces have blood and MUCH more violence than that. I’d say keep on going on that, it looks really good!
I think the guidelines in general for Xbox Availability need to be re-established, they do seem a bit vague and often lead many like you and myself confused about what it exactly entails.
You have a point, maybe he should make a GUI where the player can enable ‘Child Mode’ causing parts to be deleted ( parts that seem inappropriate ). This can be done by having a folder of those parts grouped , and if Child mode is enabled it deletes the model as a whole, causing the whole thing to delete ( of course making it a local script ). I will be posting an example of this code in a few minutes when I am done testing it.
