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Rule inquiry -No glorification, endorsement, or instruction of self-harm or suicide.

A topic by Krazy created Jul 23, 2024 Views: 212 Replies: 1
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Good morning Team.


I was reading the rules over for the jam and had a question for the following rule

"No glorification, endorsement, or instruction of self-harm or suicide."


With this said, how much "gore" or implication can we have ?

While i understand that not all horror has to involve murder or something, but what if i was to have some sort of death game concept ?

What if a person wanted to use a "Yandere" type of character in the game. Are those allowed?


As per the first rule i'd like to just get a few concept done and chose wich of my OC's i'd like to use 

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The rule is about suicide and self harm, and unless your concept or OCs revolves around that, it's mostly irrelevant to the line of questioning.

The only major content restriction beyond that is that we don't permit NSFW, specifically erotic works.  Otherwise just make sure you're using appropriate content warnings to inform your audience and judges.  We recommend taking a peek at the ESRB definitions to help guide you in labelling.

https://www.esrb.org/ratings-guide/#cont_desc