My fellow lagooners,
This feels like a snowball rolling down a clif.
I cannot stay put and not open my heart on this matter. I am also an enthusiast new artist, eager to show the world my art.
Let's just settle the facts for a minute:
a) JBGames, the autor, opend this thread to promote his game and his site. A game about a normal family, that will explore the theme of corruption, sex discovery and normal family issues. Nothing more. The theme seems perfectly inocent comparing to other games already and still being promoted around here.
b) The author, opened this thread to promote interactivity with his future public - something I am totally suporting and willing to do for my games - with the purpose of directing his game, still in production, regarding people's opinions.
c) Like I said, the game is still in production. The author denied having in mind using incest in his game. There was nothing related to incest made so far in this game.
d) Some lagooners asked about that theme, incest. For what I know, it is not off-topic the least because the thread, in Projects, is about opinions on the game, what it is now and what it should be during production and in the future. Promoting a project and listening to people's receptability involves, of course, to listen to demands, questions, doubts. Someone asked about incest. A simple question, in-topic.
e) The theme is controverse. That question raised a debate, in which I participated with 2 comments. Is the debate off-topic? Could be, or not. Again, in the nature of discussing possibilities for his game the question came as if it was ok to use such a controversed theme when there were other games around that used sensible themes too. In essence, the discussion was still about the game JBGames is promoting. Was it ok to include or not this and that in his game. Still in-topic in my most humble opinion.
f) Still, it was considered off-topic, or the theme incest considered inapropriate for this forum. One, there are less severe penalties to end off-topic issues, like just ordering to end the discussion. Two, how can the theme incest - not used in the game, nor planed to be used in the author's words - dictate the removal of the link the author gave, said link only leading to a site where there is no game made yet and no incest at all?
g) For all this reasons, and because I already expressed in PM my opinion, I have to say here that I think it is a harsh decision and do plead for the admins to reconsider and allow JBGames to promote his site and his game freely, because, most sincerely, I do not think he violated any moral or written laws of this forum.
h) Sorry for the long alphabet. Cheers JBGames.