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First Draft
[http://www.miriamruiz.es/tags/vocabulary.gz First draft] of the ?DebTags structure for the rating. Please note that this is just a draft, and also that many tags are still missing, especially those related to educational software and the skills needed to play a game.
Things that you might not want your kid to see
- Violence
- Bloodshed and Gore
- Nudity
- Sexual Content
- Sexual Violence
- Alcohol / Drugs / Tobacco
- Discrimination
- Language / Bad Words
- Gambling
- Fear
- Religious Issues
Positive Issues to be taken into account
- Edutainment (Skill development is an integral part of product)
- Informational (Contains data, facts, resource information, reference materials or instructional text)
Aptitude Related
- Classify the games according to the skills needed to play them, taking into account the development stage of the kid
Categories
Violence
Facet: rating:violence
Description: Violence contents
- Reflects whether the package shows any kind of violence.
Tag: rating:violence::none
Description: No kind of violence appears in any part of the program
Tag: rating:violence::brief
Description: Violence does only take part in brief parts, and is not a core element
Tag: rating:violence::minor
Description: Minor Violence
- Violence might be a core part of the program, but in a very light kind of way, like platform games in which the character must jump over other characters or shot at them to make them disappear.
Tag: rating:violence::non-realistic
Description: Non-realistic characters commiting acts of violence
Tag: rating:violence::realistic
Description: Realistic characters committing acts of violence
- Violence is a core part of the program, and the characters themselves might be shown or not, as long as the program shows the violence in a way that is felt as real. This might include first person shooters in which the characters are designed to look as realistic as possible, realistic car races in which the purpose is to act violently against other cars, flight simulators with a violent goal such as bombing or fighting with a realistic look and feel, etc.
Tag: rating:violence::hard
Description: Acts of violence that are sadistic, cruel or bloody
Sexual contents
Facet: rating:sex
Description: Sexual contents
Tag: rating:sex::none
Description: No sexual contents of any kind appear in the game
Tag: rating:sex::nudity
Description: Graphical depictions of nudity
Tag: rating:sex::non-realistic
Description: Non-realistic depictions of sexual activity
Tag: rating:sex::realistic
Description: Realistic depictions of sexual activity
Tag: rating:sex::hard
Description: Strong sexual contents without violence of sexual nature
Tag: rating:sex::violence
Description: Violence of a sexual nature or references to it
Language issues
Facet: rating:language
Description: Bad words or crude language
Tag: rating:language::benign
Description: No crude language or bad words are used
Tag: rating:language::insults
Description: Includes insults
- Examples: fretsonfire
Tag: rating:language::bad-words
Description: Includes or promotes the usage of crude language
Tag: rating:language::violence
Description: Verbal violence
Tag: rating:language::religious-expletives
Description: Includes religious expletives
Discrimination or prejudice
Facet: rating:discrimination
Description: Prejudice or discrimination
Tag: rating:discrimination::none
Description: No prejudice or discrimination is shown
Tag: rating:discrimination::racism
Description: Discrimination based on race
Tag: rating:discrimination::sexism
Description: Prejudice or discrimination based on gender
Tag: rating:discrimination::other
Description: Involves some kind of discrimination
Social issues
Facet: rating:theme
Description: Sensitive themes
Tag: rating:theme::war
Description: Armed conflict against an enemy
Tag: rating:theme::horror
Description: Provokes intense and profound fear
Tag: rating:theme::genocidal
Description: Deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group
Tag: rating:theme::gambling
Description: Promotes gambling or gambling is a core element
Tag: rating:theme::health:alcohol
Description: Promotes or enhances the usage of alcoholic drinks
Tag: rating:theme::health:tobacco
Description: Promotes or enhances the usage of tobacco
Tag: rating:theme::health:drugs
Description: Promotes or enhances the usage of illegal drugs
Tag: rating:theme::health:unsafe-sex
Description: Promotes or enhances unsafe sexual acts
Tag: rating:theme::religion:atheism
Description: Affirms the nonexistence of gods or rejects theism.
Tag: rating:theme::religion:christianism
Description: Involves religion, sacred matters or religious institutions as a core element
Tag: rating:theme::religion:other
Description: Involves religion, sacred matters or religious institutions as a core element
Tag: rating:theme::heretic:catholic
Description: Holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church
Tag: rating:theme::heretic:other
Description: Contradicts established religious beliefs or practices
Controls
Tag: rating:control::none
Description: Negative issues cannot be removed by configuration.
Tag: rating:control::minimal
Description: Some negative issues can be removed by configuration, but at the expense of losing functionality.
Tag: rating:control::some
Description: Some negative issues can be removed by configuration with no loss of functionality.
Tag: rating:control::all
Description: All negative issues can be removed by configuration with no loss of functionality.
Pending tags
- Skills Needed:
- Skills::Baby
Skills::?PreTeen
- Skills::Teenager
- Educational Contents:
Edu::Lang:English
Edu::Lang:Spanish
- Edu::Technology
- Edu::Geography
- Edu::History
- Edu::Maths