The point of the game is to educate people about abuse in relationships, uniquely looking at it from a queer perspective. In the realm of unjustified removals, game designer Laura McGee took to Twitter to express her dismay at the removal of her game Curtain, which is a game about the evolution of a relationship that becomes abusive. Following the bans and public outcry, it seems the game-hosting website has also decided the best course of action is to ‘be snarky’ and reply to criticism with GIFs. This has led to a number of games wrongly being removed, with games involving LGBTQ+ themes getting banned in the process. While this is all well and good on the surface, with someone finally thinking about the children (Helen Lovejoy is very relieved right now), this blanket ban has seemingly not only banned ‘porn games’ but has ultimately removed any game that mentions sex or sexual identity. Our users asked us to clean up, so here we are. This occurred after Game Jolt reportedly “made the decision to no longer allow content that depicts, solicits, promotes, normalises, or glorifies sexual acts, sexual solicitation, and sexual violence.” Henceforth, the games are no longer available to access on Game Jolt, with users already owning the games being allowed access to them through the website for one year.įor folks looking to host their porn games, we recommend or Game Jolt is a platform with a large audience of 13-16 year olds. Now, they’ve decided to get rid of any games with even the slightest mention of sex.Īccording to a report by VICE, the indie-hosting platform has been shelling out emails over the past few days to game developers to let them know their games are being removed for being ‘porn games’. Over the course of time, the website has continued to host games but has also begun to market itself as a space for fandoms to conglomerate with a ‘social app’ in the works as well. Game Jolt, starting in 2008, was initially created as an itch.io-type website which allowed indie developers to easily make their games available to download or buy. Judging by one of our most frequently-visited articles to date, this will be sad news for many. From this point forward, you will not be able to see a boob in a game you download or buy from Game Jolt.
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