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Gore definition

A topic by Antunes10 created Dec 07, 2021 Views: 218 Replies: 4
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Submitted

Greetings, my team is participating on the jam and we're implementing a game based on north mythology and it can be considered and epic. So we are writing some battle scenes and some violence, where there is depiction of blood and death. We would like to know in what parameters should we limit the "writing descriptions" of violence, so our game can be framed in the "no gore" policy of the jam.


Thank you in advance!

Host(+1)

An example of gore would be a scene that depicts a massive injury such as cutting open body parts to the point where in shows innards, or cutting off body parts.

So, using a murder mysteries as an example: A murder scene like in the first season of Dexter (cutting off body parts) or Hannibal (cutting open body parts) would be gore, but a murder scene in BBC's Sherlock or Hercule Poirot would not be gore.

Blood can be shown.

The submission guideline is to encourage video creators to be comfortable to livestream playthroughs without accidentally stumbling upon gore.

I hope this helps answer your question.

Submitted(+1)

Yeah your explanation was pretty clear, thanks!

Submitted

Are descriptions allowed? Such as "Mary broke her arm." or "Mary had blood on her." etc.

Host

Yes, text descriptions are allowed so long as it doesn't go into gore as I described above.