Goonhub
08-31-2025, 11:09 AM
Some thoughts on this:
- I don't think we'll ever be able to fully say in confidence that this game has no content that could trigger photosensitive epilepsy, since there are a lot of mechanics in the game that could potentially cause a flashing or strobe-y adjacent effect. It's something we should avoid when we can, but there'll likely always be some things that could cause it that are unintended or difficult to fix. Possibly the game should display a disclaimer about this on first login or something similar?
- The wizard spell mentioned (I believe) is pandemonium, which can give players LSD and psilocybin (hallucinogenic drugs) at the same time. I think these effects should probably be toned down a bit, both for these two and other color changing drugs. Maybe like a one-time gradual change into a color filter? Instead of repeatedly changing like it does now.
- I'm more in favor of changing drug effects instead of adding a meta tag that shows a player is photosensitive, since there are a lot of ways to administer drugs in this game that aren't targeted and generally I don't think we should be putting the onus on players to manage this. Like, people should feel free to distribute LSD in this game, it just shouldn't have a triggering effect.
- This game does have a saturation effect in the settings menu, though in my testing it doesn't massively reduce the flashiness of these effects all *that* much. Still, could be useful here. It could be a good idea for us to unlock the lower cap on it and let players set it to whatever value they want I suppose. Not that setting your game to black and white is *ideal*, but I don't see why we need to restrict it when it's something a player can reproduce using software of their own anyways.
- Party button and miracle matter I have fewer ideas about how they could be positively changed. Ideally something that keeps their visual coolness while toning them down in some way. idk this is for someone smarter than me
All that said, sorry to hear you had a seizure, that really sucks! Again, I don't think we'll ever be able to actually confidently say this game has nothing in it that can trigger photosensitive epilepsy, even if we fix these issues. Unfortunately, to some degree you'll always have to play at your own risk. We should still definitely fix these sorts of obvious flashy things though, IMO.
- I don't think we'll ever be able to fully say in confidence that this game has no content that could trigger photosensitive epilepsy, since there are a lot of mechanics in the game that could potentially cause a flashing or strobe-y adjacent effect. It's something we should avoid when we can, but there'll likely always be some things that could cause it that are unintended or difficult to fix. Possibly the game should display a disclaimer about this on first login or something similar?
- The wizard spell mentioned (I believe) is pandemonium, which can give players LSD and psilocybin (hallucinogenic drugs) at the same time. I think these effects should probably be toned down a bit, both for these two and other color changing drugs. Maybe like a one-time gradual change into a color filter? Instead of repeatedly changing like it does now.
- I'm more in favor of changing drug effects instead of adding a meta tag that shows a player is photosensitive, since there are a lot of ways to administer drugs in this game that aren't targeted and generally I don't think we should be putting the onus on players to manage this. Like, people should feel free to distribute LSD in this game, it just shouldn't have a triggering effect.
- This game does have a saturation effect in the settings menu, though in my testing it doesn't massively reduce the flashiness of these effects all *that* much. Still, could be useful here. It could be a good idea for us to unlock the lower cap on it and let players set it to whatever value they want I suppose. Not that setting your game to black and white is *ideal*, but I don't see why we need to restrict it when it's something a player can reproduce using software of their own anyways.
- Party button and miracle matter I have fewer ideas about how they could be positively changed. Ideally something that keeps their visual coolness while toning them down in some way. idk this is for someone smarter than me
All that said, sorry to hear you had a seizure, that really sucks! Again, I don't think we'll ever be able to actually confidently say this game has nothing in it that can trigger photosensitive epilepsy, even if we fix these issues. Unfortunately, to some degree you'll always have to play at your own risk. We should still definitely fix these sorts of obvious flashy things though, IMO.