{"id":972,"date":"2023-01-28T21:06:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T02:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/?p=972"},"modified":"2023-01-28T21:06:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T02:06:45","slug":"repost-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/repost-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"Repost – Ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry about the long gap between updates.\u00a0 I still haven’t figured out how to work regular updates into my normal schedule again.\u00a0 Hopefully sometime soonish.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When designing and developing a game, it\u2019s normal to have a target ESRB rating in mind.\u00a0 Depending on the game\u2019s target audience, you may want to make sure it doesn\u2019t get rated higher than E or T.\u00a0 While M games are certainly much more common, and popular, than they used to be, a M rating still limits your audience.\u00a0 There are plenty of people who won\u2019t buy a game (for themselves or others) if it has a M (or, in some cases, T) rating.\u00a0 On the other hand, it\u2019s pretty rare to find someone who won\u2019t buy a game because the rating is too low (E or T instead of M).\u00a0 And, honestly, anyone like that is an idiot.\u00a0 Everyone has different tastes, sure, but thinking that you can\u2019t enjoy a game because it doesn\u2019t have a M rating is utterly ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Even developers making M rated games need to be careful to avoid an AO rating, since that carries a pretty serious stigma, at least here in the US, and ensures that the game can\u2019t be released on consoles or sold in any major retailer.\u00a0 Though admittedly, it\u2019s really difficult (though not impossible) to get an AO rating for anything other than graphic nudity and sex.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I\u2019ve mentioned before that I\u2019m aiming for a T rating with Aurora\u2019s Nightmare.\u00a0 Due to the subject matter and themes of the story, not to mention blood in some of the art, it would be impossible to get an E rating.\u00a0 On the other hand, M would limit the audience a bit more than I\u2019d like and I\u2019m pretty certain that nothing in Aurora\u2019s Nightmare would push it to that level anyway.\u00a0 I\u2019d actually have to add more graphic violence and and\/or some serious bad language for that to happen.\u00a0 And, as I also mentioned in the past, I don\u2019t plan on going the route a lot of Japanese visual novels do and adding some token sex scenes. I don\u2019t have any strong interest in writing scenes like that and they wouldn\u2019t enhance the story in any way.\u00a0 I suppose that, in theory, having separate “all ages” and “mature audiences” versions of the game would be possible…but I’m not planning on it.<\/p>\n

All that said, there\u2019s a good chance that I won\u2019t be getting Aurora\u2019s Nightmare officially rated.\u00a0 Getting a game rated costs money and Aurora\u2019s Nightmare\u2019s budget is fairly limited.\u00a0 Steam doesn\u2019t require ESRB ratings for its games and neither does Google (if I do an Android version).\u00a0 Though if I decide on an eventual console release (dependent on budget, mainly), then a rating would probably be useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry about the long gap between updates.\u00a0 I still haven’t figured out how to work regular updates into my normal schedule again.\u00a0 Hopefully sometime soonish. When designing and developing a game, it\u2019s normal to have a target ESRB rating in mind.\u00a0 Depending on the game\u2019s target audience, you may want to make sure it doesn\u2019t … Continue reading Repost – Ratings<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}