I want to make a horror game, however, don't know if I'm aloud to, so I'm wondering if I can make a horror game if it has a warning at the start

Warnings will not influence the Scratch Team's decision to take down a project. Just don't make a horror game, if you do decide to make one, no jumpscares, intense topics, disrespectful langauge, or violence.

warnings do nothing, so it can still be removed even with a warning. No jump scares, gore, realistic weapons, scary images, etc.

ninjad

ThisIsTemp1 wrote:

Warnings will not influence the Scratch Team's decision to take down a project. Just don't make a horror game, if you do decide to make one, no jumpscares, intense topics, disrespectful langauge, or violence. The maximum is Beetlejuice or Hocus Pocus.

Both of those movies have some inappropriate content.

Horsekatto wrote:

ThisIsTemp1 wrote:

Warnings will not influence the Scratch Team's decision to take down a project. Just don't make a horror game, if you do decide to make one, no jumpscares, intense topics, disrespectful langauge, or violence. The maximum is Beetlejuice or Hocus Pocus.

Both of those movies have some inappropriate content.

Oops…

why the heck is Beetlejuice and Hocus Pocus rated PG the late 1900's were wild

joeyiscooler wrote:

I want to make a horror game, however, don't know if I'm aloud to, so I'm wondering if I can make a horror game if it has a warning at the start

i dont think having a warning matters as long as it fits scratch's guidelines! ( this is my first “post” dont mind me )

ThisIsTemp1 wrote:

Warnings will not influence the Scratch Team's decision to take down a project. Just don't make a horror game, if you do decide to make one, no jumpscares, intense topics, disrespectful langauge, or violence.

thank you, I don't plan on having gore, I only use gore in projects I don't care that much about lol, I also don't plan on having that kind of langauge, and really, the game's “jumpscares” would just be loud sound with evil scratch cat image then game over screen, and the “scary” images would just be scary if you think scratch cat but dark with realistic-ish eyes is scary, I'm not trying to make the next big horror game that keeps people up at night, I would use godot or unity for that, lol it's just your run of the mill “youtuber play spooky game” type horror game

joeyiscooler wrote:

I want to make a horror game, however, don't know if I'm aloud to, so I'm wondering if I can make a horror game if it has a warning at the start

You can't put a warning as it's against the TOS. The reason is that there's nothing stopping kids from bypassing it.

spraypaintdev wrote:

joeyiscooler wrote:

I want to make a horror game, however, don't know if I'm aloud to, so I'm wondering if I can make a horror game if it has a warning at the start

You can't put a warning as it's against the TOS. The reason is that there's nothing stopping kids from bypassing it.

Adding on: People may argue “It’s the kid’s fault for ignoring the warning!” But that’s simply not fair, because kids are… kids, and they will be curious and it’s Scratch’s duty to make sure their rules are good enough to prevent this stuff.

Projects with anything that breaks the Community Guildlines are not aloud, even with warnings it‘s still against the rules. If your unsure these are the guidelines, https://resources.scratch.mit.edu/www/posters-printables/en/ScratchCommunityGuidelinesPoster18x24.pdf

You can still make awesome projects but without horror.
I wonder what you will create.
-PumpkinTalks

joeyiscooler wrote:

ThisIsTemp1 wrote:

Warnings will not influence the Scratch Team's decision to take down a project. Just don't make a horror game, if you do decide to make one, no jumpscares, intense topics, disrespectful langauge, or violence.

thank you, I don't plan on having gore, I only use gore in projects I don't care that much about lol, I also don't plan on having that kind of langauge, and really, the game's “jumpscares” would just be loud sound with evil scratch cat image then game over screen, and the “scary” images would just be scary if you think scratch cat but dark with realistic-ish eyes is scary, I'm not trying to make the next big horror game that keeps people up at night, I would use godot or unity for that, lol it's just your run of the mill “youtuber play spooky game” type horror game

You shouldn’t use gore in any of your projects, even if you don’t care about them.

PumpkinTalks wrote:

Projects with anything that breaks the Community Guildlines are not aloud, even with warnings it‘s still against the rules. If your unsure these are the guidelines, https://resources.scratch.mit.edu/www/posters-printables/en/ScratchCommunityGuidelinesPoster18x24.pdf

Why would you link to some obscure .pdf file that I have never seen until now and now the much more known page on the main site?

Content warnings aren't allowed, on the grounds that anything that needs them shouldn't be on Scratch anyways
(source: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/168506/ )

han614698 wrote:

joeyiscooler wrote:

ThisIsTemp1 wrote:

Warnings will not influence the Scratch Team's decision to take down a project. Just don't make a horror game, if you do decide to make one, no jumpscares, intense topics, disrespectful langauge, or violence.

thank you, I don't plan on having gore, I only use gore in projects I don't care that much about lol, I also don't plan on having that kind of langauge, and really, the game's “jumpscares” would just be loud sound with evil scratch cat image then game over screen, and the “scary” images would just be scary if you think scratch cat but dark with realistic-ish eyes is scary, I'm not trying to make the next big horror game that keeps people up at night, I would use godot or unity for that, lol it's just your run of the mill “youtuber play spooky game” type horror game

You shouldn’t use gore in any of your projects, even if you don’t care about them.

I never do it in scratch, don't wanna be banned lol

BigNate469 wrote:

Content warnings aren't allowed, on the grounds that anything that needs them shouldn't be on Scratch anyways
(source: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/168506/ )

People say this, as if epilepsy warnings and such aren’t allowed too.
A better phrasing would be; “Content warnings for things that you think would break guidelines also break guidelines, it doesn’t change anything.”

joeyiscooler wrote:

ThisIsTemp1 wrote:

Warnings will not influence the Scratch Team's decision to take down a project. Just don't make a horror game, if you do decide to make one, no jumpscares, intense topics, disrespectful langauge, or violence.

thank you, I don't plan on having gore, I only use gore in projects I don't care that much about lol, I also don't plan on having that kind of langauge, and really, the game's “jumpscares” would just be loud sound with evil scratch cat image then game over screen, and the “scary” images would just be scary if you think scratch cat but dark with realistic-ish eyes is scary, I'm not trying to make the next big horror game that keeps people up at night, I would use godot or unity for that, lol it's just your run of the mill “youtuber play spooky game” type horror game

That jumpscare doesn't sound allowed. You have to consider that many Scratchers are extremely young and you cannot expect them to handle jumpscares the same way someone of older age might.

spraypaintdev wrote:

joeyiscooler wrote:

I want to make a horror game, however, don't know if I'm aloud to, so I'm wondering if I can make a horror game if it has a warning at the start

You can't put a warning as it's against the TOS. The reason is that there's nothing stopping kids from bypassing it.

This is only partly true. You can put a warning, it just wouldn't affect moderation action. The ST won't take your project down just because you put a warning.

Warnings will not do the thing. I encourage you to read this this, i have gone through this bubble as well

https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/746200/