I'm making a project that features all of my old projects from when I was still new.

When I was porting the 5th game, I was a little worried, because the goal was to stop evil muffins from reaching the end by impaling them with a thorny vine.

The project wasn't taken down from my old account, but it barely got any views, so I'm not sure if it would have.


I got rid of the muffin's face, and I hope that makes it acceptable for scratch, but I wanted to get another opinion.
Is it still too violent? or was it alright in the first place?

Old on left, new on right

Here's the link to my project so you can see for yourself. Use the arrow keys to switch games until you find one titled “Staked Goods.” Then press “Z”
https://forkphorus.github.io/#494284307

Any faces arent violent unless it has blood and creepy.

boncuk18 wrote:

Any faces arent violent unless it has blood and creepy.

I thought it was bad because visible pain

Does the game contain blood?

ninjaMAR wrote:

Does the game contain blood?

No

Think about spikes in platformers. They are allowed.
So is this.

BitTheDrone wrote:

ninjaMAR wrote:

Does the game contain blood?

No

I think the project should be fine to share

han614698 wrote:

Think about spikes in platformers. They are allowed.
So is this.

I'm pretty sure I've seen plenty of (popular) platformers featuring spikes in some way, most likely either red triangles or grey/white triangles.

I'm tempted to say that it's fine to feature spikes as long as your character does something like instantly teleport back to spawn.

It's most likely not safe to detail the spikes to look realistic or like knives or anything. I'd obviously avoid doing that; a triangle would probably be enough.

Impaling is too violent for children.

I think removing the face and them just disappearing seems fine

The vine grows up along the screen before sprouting thorns, if a muffin is caught when it sprouts thorns, it will be impaled before the vine retracts and the muffin goes down with it.

Here's the link to my project so you can see for yourself. Use the arrow keys to switch games until you find one titled “Staked Goods.” Then press “Z”
https://forkphorus.github.io/#494284307

BitTheDrone wrote:

The vine grows up along the screen before sprouting thorns, if a muffin is caught when it sprouts thorns, it will be impaled before the vine retracts and the muffin goes down with it.

Here's the link to my project so you can see for yourself. Use the arrow keys to switch games until you find one titled “Staked Goods.” Then press “Z”
https://forkphorus.github.io/#494284307

It seems fine to me. It doesn't necessarily come across as frightening. The “characters” also just look like rolling muffins.

Nice game, too! I got 165 on that mini-game.

Austinato wrote:

BitTheDrone wrote:

The vine grows up along the screen before sprouting thorns, if a muffin is caught when it sprouts thorns, it will be impaled before the vine retracts and the muffin goes down with it.

Here's the link to my project so you can see for yourself. Use the arrow keys to switch games until you find one titled “Staked Goods.” Then press “Z”
https://forkphorus.github.io/#494284307

It seems fine to me. It doesn't necessarily come across as frightening. The “characters” also just look like rolling muffins.

Nice game, too! I got 165 on that mini-game.

Thanks. I'll keep the faces off though.

I don't think it would be much of a problem. I've seen worse platfromers that haven't been taken down and have many views.