Here are the legal and ethical considerations that I wrote about for our game. I took into account the audience that we are planning to sell our game to when writing the age ratings consideration, how copyright will affect our game and the ethical side of the characters in the game.
Age Ratings:
Age Ratings:
The age rating of the game must be applicable to the PEGI age ratings for games.
We have decided to make our game suitable for people of 12 years and older. This is because it will contain mild violence during the situations and will involve online gaming. The examples of mild violence that will be included in our game are injuries and confrontations between the players on the court.
The main copyright issue that we will have to deal with is that of using the ‘NBA’ in our game.
Another issue that we will have to investigate is the music that we will be using in our game. We are going to use music from the Hip-Hop genre in our game as this is the type of music that is generally associated with basketball. We are planning to contact a record label/artist to ask for permission to use some more wider known songs that users would enjoy listening to.
Ethical:
To make sure we have no ethical issues with our game in terms of the characters, we will give the users the option to either choose a player from the NBA to play as or the option to create their own player.
In this option we will make sure we have no racial issues so the user can choose to be a black, white or brown player. The user will also have the option to select what nationality they would like their player to be, therefore eliminating any ethical issues that could appear in the game.
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