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Basic Age-Rating System

A topic by IronProject created Aug 11, 2020 Views: 697 Replies: 2
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I don't think it's required, but it would be helpful for developers to tell their audience what the suggested age-range is.

You can already kinda do this with the warning system saying this is only for mature audiences, but how about a game suggested towards Teens? You could take the user's birth date to say whether or not they're at the right age, I just don't want some kid to be traumatized by my adult game because he didn't care about the warning.

It could either be in a similar way to ESRB's (E, T, M, etc.), or by number like Pegi (9-13 and/or 9+).

Part of the problem is the many differing laws in the world. The other is that the “rating” of a piece of media is highly subjective. The ESRB seems to consider 17+ to contain “partial nudity” at most, while I don’t see the problem of restricting nudity at all.

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Yeah, that's why I created my own "Age-Rating System" when other people won't review/rate my games (like Common-Sense Media, ESRB, Pegi, etc.) because they aren't big enough or I don't have the money.
Again, I don't thing a required feature (at least from where I live) but, it would definitely be helpful

Also, I think you miss understood me, it wouldn't be automatic, the developer would select the age(-range) and parameters, maybe their could be an automatic option so that, depending on the parameters set by developers, it would select an age range.
Like a rating of 'Nudity' would set the minimum age to 17, 18, or something.

It could even detect where the user (player) is from and change parameters, so the default age would be 8+ or something, and each rating would change that number (Basic Examples: Nudity adds 10, Bloodshed adds 4, Blood & Gore adds 6, etc. and with a max number of 19 or somewhere around that), these changes would be different for other countries based on their standards, but that would turn this from a Basic Age-Rating System to an Advanced Age-Rating Algorithm.

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