@woodspeople
don't stop posting, please don't... and do understand that if I would make a game about a purple monster pimp, it would gladly label it as an R game even if the esrb wouldn't agree with it, I respect our younger minds. My game would be oriented to a very specific segment of people from my own generation, to create a feeling of nostalgia. I realize that well.
If I were to make a kids game, I would mix the gameplay of monster rancher with dungeon keeper, which would be a complete other niche market. Given time and effort, I might actually get that some day, hopefully within terasology.
basically, my ideas never make any monetary sense, yet i keep persuing them. And just like you, I see the potential in Terasology, that's why we're here.
It actually opens the discussion of how much Terasology as a project should commit itself to label mods etc as kid friendly etc. I certainly do believe that, as an open source project, it should bare some of the responsability, and I'd gladly volunteer as a childless and uninvolved contributor to include a rating system within the game by default, so parents who are involved at least have an option to make sure their kids enjoy playing their game, be it by enabling some admin option as "parental control". Then again, i was a (weird?) kid myself , and I never did pay much heed to parental advisory stickers and the like, and as my parents never knew just what I was doing, I never had much trouble circumventing those options myself given a little effort, so i do realize it's a fight against windmills, if your kid is really determined to play mod xxx
don't stop posting, please don't... and do understand that if I would make a game about a purple monster pimp, it would gladly label it as an R game even if the esrb wouldn't agree with it, I respect our younger minds. My game would be oriented to a very specific segment of people from my own generation, to create a feeling of nostalgia. I realize that well.
If I were to make a kids game, I would mix the gameplay of monster rancher with dungeon keeper, which would be a complete other niche market. Given time and effort, I might actually get that some day, hopefully within terasology.
basically, my ideas never make any monetary sense, yet i keep persuing them. And just like you, I see the potential in Terasology, that's why we're here.
It actually opens the discussion of how much Terasology as a project should commit itself to label mods etc as kid friendly etc. I certainly do believe that, as an open source project, it should bare some of the responsability, and I'd gladly volunteer as a childless and uninvolved contributor to include a rating system within the game by default, so parents who are involved at least have an option to make sure their kids enjoy playing their game, be it by enabling some admin option as "parental control". Then again, i was a (weird?) kid myself , and I never did pay much heed to parental advisory stickers and the like, and as my parents never knew just what I was doing, I never had much trouble circumventing those options myself given a little effort, so i do realize it's a fight against windmills, if your kid is really determined to play mod xxx