The rule says
"Submissions containing depictions of suicide or self-harm will be disqualified and removed. Text, whether in-game or in the files of the submission, containing instructions, encouragement of, or statement of intent of suicide or self-harm are similarly disqualified."
I'd like to know where the lines are on this, because that takes some stuff off the table with a horror game.
If the lines are "depiction" (I assume direct depiction or what might be considered immediate indirect depiction), "instructions" "encouragement" and "statement of intent" does this mean that anything that isn't those things is allowed with regard to themes of suicide? Allusion, historical incident, detections of mental states where there is no statement of intent to commit suicide but one might conclude that they're in that state of mind, and less direct stuff like that, for instance?
Where does the line fall between suicide and murder with regard to horror (PARTICULARLY J-horror - I have a Cure/Pulse double feature planned tonight so this limitation is on my mind) tropes like possession or hypnosis? What about things like willing human sacrifice or any other form of consensual death, which might fall under the definition of something like assisted suicide?
Any other guidelines here? Or is it a blanket ban on depicting any world in which suicide and self-harm provably happen?