Forgive the ignorance, but I thought Gamejolt only banned suggestive stuff or for mature audiences, does LGBT Stuff fall into that category for them? Unless they only allow gay romances with nothing sexual.
I'm surprised to learn that, given that I just saw that there is an internal Gamejolt group dedicated purely to LGBT stuff.
I had thought similar too. But it would seem that they think that their main audience are 6 year olds and thus ban anything not approved for 6 year olds. So, a gay version of say, Inuyasha would no longer be allowed. I would argue most of my sfw work is somewhere between tv14 and tv16 with Air Gear still being slightly more intense than my own work. Certainly, nothing that should be banned unless you want to start killing off anime altogether, but still a shame as it means I am unable to safely post there.
I'm guessing if it's entirely safe without any humor, deeper story, or anything for teens. Say Mushroom Pup, then it probably can go on gamejolt just fine. Anything past that may not be allowed, so not sure how all the fnaf games stay on there, they're literally about dead children. (I also don't think they specifically target lgbt specifically, just that seems to be rather popular for indie creators. most of the straight stuff is already mainstream)
I guess Gamejolt banned those things because they have an image to maintain, since I downloaded games as a kid from that site it seemed like a 'family' site to some extent. Gamejolt has stuff like creepypastas and FNAF fangames both years ago and now, that's not supposed to be for kids, I suppose, although as a kid that was my daily bread and butter. Not to disparage well-done creepypastas or things like that, but I would think they leave that stuff in Gamejolt because even if it's horror stuff, it's still something that kids are interested in. (Horror suitable for kids? Like Luigi's Mansion? It's not a new concept).
I have no interest in doing mature erotic games, maybe because I'm just starting to be an adult and I have no interest now. Still, I know that a lot of other people want to make those games, and a lot of other people want to play them. Itch.io allows these things, and with the large amount of erotic games I imagine they make a lot of money, I guess, I don't know how Itch.io makes money. That's fine with me, although I would like an option to filter tags so I don't find erotic games mixed with games with sexual elements but not entirely erotic (please tell me if this makes sense). I think it's good that you have found a place used by many to publish your work, at least I would be satisfied with that. I hope you do well with your visual novels of furry lesbians having sex.
lol thanks. this is not my sfw account though so my sfw games are not attached to TheCrimsonNight. Those are on TheCrimsonDM Rated T
what your saying makes perfect sense, its why I like itch actually. As far as what you said about kids, I mean why do you think we all stayed awake to watch toonami and then adult swim? Because Kagome shower scenes are the best lol (Its also one reason digimon beat pokemon for me, they know what's up), but then again so is the gallons of blood from the Wind Scar. To put it in easier to access movie terms, it seems like gamejolt bans pg13 and above games, but really until you hit rated R, your still a pg13 movie, all the saucy ladies, butts, and side boobs in the world won't change that (looking at you Dumb and Dumber 2)
but I like itch because I can still get lots of perfectly normal stories without having worry about seeing erotica mixed in if I'm avoiding it. No reason I should be able to buy a copy of Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle without any problems but I have to worry about a video game with similar jokes being taken down by overly stingy paranoid people lol.
update: I just had to post this because this is probably the exact reason why the lgbt community feels targetted. Both Dayshift at Freddies, and Five Nights at F**k Boys are both still on gamejolt. in one of them you can yiff the robot with sex toys, (off camera of course) in the other well... the name says it all.
So to take down similar but queer focused games kind of sends the wrong message for gamejolt when they leave these on there
