Question about game design: sensitive content option.

[tcassat]

Hello guys!

My Visual Novel has sensitive content and I want to put an option where the player can turn this on/off. But I still do not know what would be the best solution for this.

The best thing I thought was put an option on the Main Menu, called Sensitive Comment. The player could access it anytime and "on / off" whenever he wanted. However, I suspect that such a solution could cause some kind of problem in the progress of the game (I'm not sure about that). For example, if the player decides to turn on the content, save the game, turn off the content and load the game. I'm not sure if that would cause some sort of problem, but I'd rather not risk it.

Would anyone have a suggestion to solve this problem? Is there a better way to turn on / off sensitive content?

P.S: I'd rather not put this in the beginning of the game because I want to give the player the option to turn off the content without having to start a new save.

[Imperf3kt]

The search currently isn't working, but when you can, look for 'profanity'. You should come across a thread detailing how I used a custom filter in one project, though the code could use some optimising now.

With some tweaks, it should do what you want.

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[LateWhiteRabbit]

You can do it with a simple boolean variable check. Your options screen can toggle this variable true or false based on what the player selects, and then you just need to have variable checks in the game, where you say: If SensitiveContent == True, do this, Else, do this other thing.

[Ulalaria]

On Queen At Arms, we had an on/off toggle in the Preferences menu for timed choices, and we did it with the basic boolean variable check as well. As far as I know, we never had any issues with it interfering with saves.

[PyTom]

I did an example on how to make a custom preference on my Patreon, https://www.patreon.com/posts/custom-11704433 .

[Mammon]

The programmer and I did something like this in S&Y, as already said before me it's as simple as putting a $ = False or True and then adding that distinction to the parts you want to censor with that persistent.

[tcassat]

Thanks, guys!

I did an example on how to make a custom preference on my Patreon, https://www.patreon.com/posts/custom-11704433 .

I decided to use this method myself, it's the simplest and I do not intend to do anything complex in my little game. To help you, I made a pledge on your Patreon!

Bye!

[verysunshine]

Yeah, having a Boolean could fix this. You could even use multiple boolean preferences, like "censor graphic images" and "censor graphic text", if you want.