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Games cannot feature underage individuals in sexual situations. Authors can kinda get around this rule by not specifying an age, calling the character "young", and saying they are in high-school (since high school students can be 18). If said character is involved in any sexual activity, then the image must be of an actor or actress that is 18+.

Nothing provocative or sexually explicit should exist for an underage individual in games.

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[edit by Lashek 10/15/2019]
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Rfpnj wrote:Games cannot feature underage individuals in sexual situations. Authors can kinda get around this rule by not specifying an age, calling the character "young", and saying they are in high-school (since high school students can be 18). If said character is involved in any sexual activity, then the image must be of an actor or actress that is 18+.

Nothing provocative or sexually explicit should exist for an underage individual in games.

Hate to bring this up yet again, but I guess I'll quote myself way back when this rule was proposed as it seems my points were overlooked:

I count three games in the top 10 that potentially run afoul of the nothing sexual with under-18 characters rule as they feature characters in high school or younger in sexual situations: The Masculine Mystique (which may just barely make the cut for not specifying age), Press-Switch, and The Coleman Institute (not just potentially, but absolutely, as it does depict sexual situations involving a character under 18). Off the top of my head, I can think of at least one other fairly popular game not in the top 10 that almost certainly runs afoul of this rule as well, namely Jailbait. There are very likely more which at least have the potential to conflict with this ruling. Overall, judging by past content and this ruling, it seems like this ruling would end up banning things that were previously allowed here, and also a few of the more popular games on this site.

Additionally:

The Masculine Mystique does skirt by with ambiguity despite being set in a high school, but The Coleman Institute does not: the main character's written as 15 when the game becomes sexually explicit. Jailbait also doesn't get by, as the main character regresses to an age written explicitly as 16. The main character of Press-Switch is 17, also under 18. Feel free to tell me if I'm wrong here, but that would imply these games are in contravention of the updated site rules, wouldn't it?

There are more games than the three above. I just picked three more popular games to demonstrate that the rule seems to ban well-liked and pre-existing content. I could give my other arguments against banning this kind of content again as well, but, speaking pragmatically, it seems it should be avoided.

In light of recent events, with revenue generating links, being added to games where the person has not been a part of the design of those games. The Following rule has been added to the IGDB rules:

g. Download links may not be added from any source that generates revenue for the poster. Crowd funding opt-in sites are still allowed. This means sites like adf.ly and all alternatives are strictly banned.

[edited by Lashek to clarify further]

Rfpnj wrote:In light of recent events, with revenue generating links, being added to games where the person has not been a part of the design of those games. The Following rule has been added to the IGDB rules:

g. Download links may not be added from any source that generates revenue for the poster. This means sites like adf.ly and all alternatives are strictly banned.

Just to clarify: This only affects links that rout you through a site for the sole sake of generating revenue? Games associated with sites like patreon are still acceptable?

GateKeeper wrote:

Rfpnj wrote:In light of recent events, with revenue generating links, being added to games where the person has not been a part of the design of those games. The Following rule has been added to the IGDB rules:

g. Download links may not be added from any source that generates revenue for the poster. This means sites like adf.ly and all alternatives are strictly banned.

Just to clarify: This only affects links that rout you through a site for the sole sake of generating revenue? Games associated with sites like patreon are still acceptable?

Yes, Games are still allowed to have patreon accounts.

Rfpnj wrote:

GateKeeper wrote:

Rfpnj wrote:In light of recent events, with revenue generating links, being added to games where the person has not been a part of the design of those games. The Following rule has been added to the IGDB rules:

g. Download links may not be added from any source that generates revenue for the poster. This means sites like adf.ly and all alternatives are strictly banned.

Just to clarify: This only affects links that rout you through a site for the sole sake of generating revenue? Games associated with sites like patreon are still acceptable?

Yes, Games are still allowed to have patreon accounts.

Thought so, but I wanted to confirm (Before someone else inevitably asked.)

Just changed and clarified the rule a bit more for you, GateKeeper.

Actually, I have a question about the age rule (gee, I bet you love answering questions about that one, huh?). I one posted a partially-finished game based on time travel, in which you would, every night, go "back in time" to various points in your past, and have an opportunity to choose how key events play out, before snapping back to the present when you awaken in the morning. Then, you see how your choices in the past have rippled through the timeline and affected the reality of your present day. So, for example, your coworker might initially hate you as a rival, but then when you dream-time-travel back to your first day of school and befriend her at recess, when you wake up in the present she's now your best friend, fondly remembering how the two of you stuck together growing up. Or you might explore how does your life in the present change if you were to sign up for the middle school play instead of junior cheerleading? That kind of thing. What I wonder, however, is how such a game intersects with the definition of "a character" in the rules. That is to say, obviosuly, there is no sexual content with underage persons, or with anyone while your character is underage. However, there might be sexual content with adults, as an adult, in the "present day" and in the "college" flashback segments.

The question, then, is how this intersects with the "if a character is engaged in any sexual activity, the image must be of an actor that is 18+" rule. In short: if your character can have sex in the present, does that make it against the rules to have a character picture for you in the past, even though no sexual content occurs then? Or are "child you" and "Adult you" separate characters for the purposes of this rule? I suppose the same question would apply to other games, where one "bad end" might lead to your character being turned into a little girl, while a different path has you turned into a prostitute. Both are the same character ("you,") so does that mean if there's sex on the prostitute path, the AR bad end can't have pictures, even though there's no suggestion of sex therein?

Lashek wrote:Just changed and clarified the rule a bit more for you, GateKeeper.

Thank you. Since I had seen some of the earlier conversation on the subject, I was pretty sure I knew how it was, but when I saw the phrasing, I felt the need to play devil's advocate to clarify.

Scipio Africanus wrote:Actually, I have a question about the age rule (gee, I bet you love answering questions about that one, huh?). I one posted a partially-finished game based on time travel, in which you would, every night, go "back in time" to various points in your past, and have an opportunity to choose how key events play out, before snapping back to the present when you awaken in the morning. Then, you see how your choices in the past have rippled through the timeline and affected the reality of your present day. So, for example, your coworker might initially hate you as a rival, but then when you dream-time-travel back to your first day of school and befriend her at recess, when you wake up in the present she's now your best friend, fondly remembering how the two of you stuck together growing up. Or you might explore how does your life in the present change if you were to sign up for the middle school play instead of junior cheerleading? That kind of thing. What I wonder, however, is how such a game intersects with the definition of "a character" in the rules. That is to say, obviosuly, there is no sexual content with underage persons, or with anyone while your character is underage. However, there might be sexual content with adults, as an adult, in the "present day" and in the "college" flashback segments.

The question, then, is how this intersects with the "if a character is engaged in any sexual activity, the image must be of an actor that is 18+" rule. In short: if your character can have sex in the present, does that make it against the rules to have a character picture for you in the past, even though no sexual content occurs then? Or are "child you" and "Adult you" separate characters for the purposes of this rule? I suppose the same question would apply to other games, where one "bad end" might lead to your character being turned into a little girl, while a different path has you turned into a prostitute. Both are the same character ("you,") so does that mean if there's sex on the prostitute path, the AR bad end can't have pictures, even though there's no suggestion of sex therein?

They are separate for the purposes of this rule, as they are not in the same space-time location during the sexual content. They may be the same person but they are not the same "Character"