SIDEWINDER'S PROFILE

author=Strak
That picture is a Gibdo, not a ReDead. Specifically, that's Paula's dad who was in the PROCESS of being turned into a Gibdo in Majora's Mask.

Shoot a Gibdo with a fire arrow.

See what happens.

I'd love to be able to retire RPGmaker 2003, but so far there just hasn't been anything up to my standards.

Probably going to switch over to Godot, at some point.

Mostly I just buy a lot of retro stuff. Not a huge fan of modern graphics or mechanics.

I guess what I tend to look for is stuff with a high degree of player agency, but also a game that isn't open world.

Good spritework. Looks very cute.

author=Strak
Although appealing to a wide audience is great, if your game is intended for a specific audience should it be moderately censored to consider audiences outside of its target? Should games have more accessibility options to enable player-chosen censorship on more than just blood and gore, such as course language and nudity? And how much profanity is considered to be too much?

Accessibility options might sound like a good idea on paper (and sometimes they work fine) but my problem is that there are double standards with what content is deemed socially acceptable, and oftentimes rules are very inconsistently applied to begin with.


Even if you're not interested in Adult Content, I'd still recommend this channel. Annie is an intelligent person who makes a lot of interesting observations, and I think she's absolutely right when she says that Steam doesn't really have a set of guidelines for what is and what isn't acceptable, and may be disproportionately targeting games with a focus on LGBT content and games with a focus on female sexuality.

This is a little off-topic since the thread is specifically about video games, but I'd recommend reading 6 Bizarre Realities of How Movies Get Their Rating from Cracked.com.

The tl;dr is that this is by no means a problem endemic to Steam and has been a problem in American culture for decades.

Because even if there's no sex or swearing in a gay film, it still means a nigh-automatic R rating. And what little sex that does lube up and slip by is always from the straight-male perspective. The MPAA will cut just about any female sexuality beyond "get topless and dance around for the menfolk" out of a film. Name a recent movie with sex in it and, 99 times out of 100, the act is filmed with a clear male perspective. When films do try to get scenes from the female perspective, such as the recent Charlie Countryman, that's the first scene the MPAA will say has to go to avoid a higher rating.