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Make "Show content warning" available without the "Has sensitive content" option

A topic by npckc created Nov 22, 2020 Views: 1,607 Replies: 4

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Hi, I think it'd be nice to let games show content warnings even without the "Has sensitive content" option. Currently the "Has sensitive content" option specifies that it is for games which are "not suited for minors or the workplace", but a lot of times, games may want content warnings for different reasons even if they aren't NSFW titles.

Currently my workaround is to have content warnings shown in the game summary, but having it shown as a pop-up before accessing the game would ensure that everyone gets to see it.

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Wechenbetelly3 years ago

If I had made a game that isn’t strictly for adults but still covered mature themes, then I would tag it as a game to be filtered out. I would expect that teenagers that think they can handle adult content and got the okay from their legal guardians would browse itch with that kind of content enabled. And those who don’t don’t.

There are several tags that trigger that warning besides NSFW. As far as I’m concerned the Adult tag would seem to be the closest to what you are looking/asking for. While things with that tag could include sexual content they don’t necessarily do. (The current definition reads: “For adults, often containing sexual or mature content.”)

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Orion Studios Interactive3 years ago

I think theyre talking about excessive violence or smt similar rather than any sort of nudity. Perhaps he feels his game has too much blood pr something. In case he is talking about nudity, you are required by a majority of national and international law to mark anything even close to that as nsfw.

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Wechenbetelly3 years ago (1 edit)

Given their regular content[*] I would rather imagine complicated gender stuff - but I wouldn’t want to assume anything.

It’s a bit hard for most kids to grasp the concept since they themselves are asexual, from an adult’s perspective. Real life example: I know a couple that have a biological child, but due to the blessing of gender confirmation surgery there are now two fathers. Their offspring still calls one of them “mom” because that’s what they are used to.

[*] like what I would call their springs series

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pastellexists3 years ago(+3)

I think KC here is referring to a need to have content warnings or trigger warnings before viewing a game-page which may have the warning, but also potentially triggering content in view.

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