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• Cartoon violence. Violent actions involving cartoon - like situations and
characters. May include violence where a character is unharmed after
the action has been inflicted.
• Fantasy violence. Violent actions of a fantasy nature, involving human
or non - human characters in situations easily distinguishable from real life.
• Violence. Scenes involving aggressive conflict. May contain bloodless
dismemberment.
• Intense violence. Graphic and realistic - looking depictions of physical
conflict. May involve extreme and/or realistic blood, gore, weapons and
depictions of human injury and death.
When designing violence in games you should realize that it ’ s all about
context. The more violent activities the player does themselves, the higher
the rating. Ask yourself these following questions to help determine the
proper rating for your game:
• Does the player do the violence themselves? Do they use realistic weapons?
• How frequently does the player perform the violent act?
• Does the game reward the player for performing violent acts? Does the
game show that violence is “ not appropriate ” in any way?
• How graphic is the violence? Is there dismemberment? Do the game
visuals linger on the violence?
• Is there leftover residue like bloodstains or gibs? Better graphics equal
more realistic graphics equals more realistic violence.
• Is the violence against “ bad guys? ” Do the enemies suffer as they are
being killed/defeated?
Now that you know how violent your gameplay will be, let ’ s start to design
how it is going to happen.
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When designing combat moves for your character, first consider your
character ’ s personality. Is your character acrobatic like the Prince of Persia?
Is your character jumpy like Mario? Stealthy like Solid Snake? Brutal like