No, I'm not talking horror horror, but more like spooky-ish game horror. I'm going to assume jumpscares are probably in the not allowed zone, but I'd like to know how far I can go with a game I'm working on. I want it to be just scary enough for most, but not so scary that it gets reported. Speaking along the lines of other games (not on scratch), would roblox “Apeirophobia” be too scary? What about “Weird strict dad?” I plan to make it somewhat along the scariness of Lethal Company, (in the sense of, no jumpscares but still scary-ish). If anybody has an opinion, please share it with me!

Well, if you want it to be NFE'd, you would probably want it to be 8+, but idk. If you don't want it to be NFE'd, then I recommend making the project appropriate for all ages.

What does NFE'd mean?

Icarus253 wrote:

What does NFE'd mean?

NFE'd means when your project is marked as NFE [Not For Everyone] by the Scratch Team, which makes your project unable to be searched up or appear in the Front Page.

If you will, remove jumpscares & make it barely unnerving

Cartoon violence is ok; just no blood, jumpscares, or realistic features.

Scratch--TheCat wrote:

Icarus253 wrote:

What does NFE'd mean?

NFE'd means when your project is marked as NFE [Not For Everyone] by the Scratch Team, which makes your project unable to be searched up or appear in the Front Page.

So then, if it does get NFE'd, how can it be found? sharing the direct link?
And- can you tell if a project of yours get NFE'd?

usefun wrote:

Cartoon violence is ok; just no blood, jumpscares, or realistic features.

I don't plan on adding blood, nor jumpscares
However, are any “monsters” allowed?
for example, would the classic backrooms entity be too scary?
What about a giant industrial machine that may or may not totally be based off the bagger 288?

And- if I do add jumpscares, IF I make a setting turning them on or off, and have it set to off by default, would the game still get NFE'd?

Icarus253 wrote:

Scratch--TheCat wrote:

Icarus253 wrote:

What does NFE'd mean?

NFE'd means when your project is marked as NFE [Not For Everyone] by the Scratch Team, which makes your project unable to be searched up or appear in the Front Page.

So then, if it does get NFE'd, how can it be found? sharing the direct link?
And- can you tell if a project of yours get NFE'd?

The direct link does get you to the project, but you cannot know if a project is rated NFE.

usefun wrote:

Icarus253 wrote:

Scratch--TheCat wrote:

Icarus253 wrote:

What does NFE'd mean?

NFE'd means when your project is marked as NFE [Not For Everyone] by the Scratch Team, which makes your project unable to be searched up or appear in the Front Page.

So then, if it does get NFE'd, how can it be found? sharing the direct link?
And- can you tell if a project of yours get NFE'd?

The direct link does get you to the project, but you cannot know if a project is rated NFE.

Soooooooooooooooo
theoretically speaking…………..
(i do not plan to do this)
but if you were to make a project that is not NFE rated, and post a link to the NFE rated project in that other project, that not NFE project could get to the front page.
Now, I do recognize that there is a fine line between: This project is empty and is just a link to the NFE project
and: This is a genuine game, but I happen to have “NEW GAME: link to NFE game” in the description

Icarus253 wrote:

usefun wrote:

Cartoon violence is ok; just no blood, jumpscares, or realistic features.

I don't plan on adding blood, nor jumpscares
However, are any “monsters” allowed?
for example, would the classic backrooms entity be too scary?
What about a giant industrial machine that may or may not totally be based off the bagger 288?

Cartoon monsters are allowed

Icarus253 wrote:

usefun wrote:

Cartoon violence is ok; just no blood, jumpscares, or realistic features.

And- if I do add jumpscares, IF I make a setting turning them on or off, and have it set to off by default, would the game still get NFE'd?

yes