Storytelling Issues

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Hi,

I have been working on a game for over a year now, and I have been questioning myself about the lines that my characters have. This is a sort of Half-life/Portal inspired game, and of course I want my characters to feel real and authentic.

The issue is that, when I wrote the lines, I included some swearing (not a lot, but it is there), depending on the situation. The game is rated 13+ so far, but I do not know if this has an impact on how the game’s content is moderated. And since I want my characters to feel real (and all the character are grown-up), well I think it really help to have them swearing at some point.

The game is single-player, so obviously players literally cannot talk to each others, so the swearing problem is literally not affecting the player in any way (and isn’t even implemented in the game because I always been concerned about this).

I thought that I could censor the swears in the game’s dialogs, but hearing a loud sound each time a character swear to censor it wouldn’t be great, and I also thought of changing these words so it could be suited for everyone, but the characters wouldn’t look that authentic anymore.

Can anyone help me with this issue?

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Hello @JustASackboy,

The issue that you can found can be really demotivating for many other developers. I’ve also got this issue by the past, so here is some quick advise for you.

    1. add a ‘‘spoiler effect’’ in the text. You can add a dark bock at the 2nd and after the last of the swearing word;
    1. add the ‘‘beep’’ sound effect when there is a swear. I know you have use it in the past, but try to reduce the volume of the sound effect;
    1. add the *** stars when there is a swear word. This comment technic is useful and used in many popular game who has swears.
    1. Change the story dialog with frailly friendly words/expression. This is more complicated, but the result of this is really promoting for tricking the roblox age resstriction.

Hope this help you with your game. I hope this will make sure that the roblox age limitation can be ticked by those technics.

Have a great day! :smiley:

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Adding onto this, just muting the section with swears should be fine.

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