Difference between revisions of "Game Jolt"
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https://web.archive.org/web/20220102133529/https://gamejolt.com/help/guidelines | https://web.archive.org/web/20220102133529/https://gamejolt.com/help/guidelines | ||
https://web.archive.org/web/20220103212540/https://gamejolt.com/help/guidelines | https://web.archive.org/web/20220103212540/https://gamejolt.com/help/guidelines | ||
Game Jolt offered this statement in response to an inquiry from Vice News. "While the roots of Game Jolt have been around hosting games, the site has grown to become more of a social media platform for the next generation of gamers. As such, Game Jolt recently implemented a policy that ensures games that feature explicit adult content will no longer be available. We are currently working with developers to make sure they have an opportunity to move their games to another platform, and are responding to any categorizations that may need to be reassessed." | |||
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7w779/indie-hosting-platform-game-jolt-suddenly-bans-porn-games | |||
== Discovery == | == Discovery == | ||
It appears there is an easy way to discover based on sequential IDs: <code>https://gamejolt.com/site-api/web/discover/games/overview/id?ignore</code> (replace "id" with the sequential ID), which is accessed on normal game metadata page viewing. | It appears there is an easy way to discover based on sequential IDs: <code>https://gamejolt.com/site-api/web/discover/games/overview/id?ignore</code> (replace "id" with the sequential ID), which is accessed on normal game metadata page viewing. | ||
Revision as of 00:53, 8 January 2022
| Game Jolt | |
| URL | https://gamejolt.com/ |
| Status | Unknown |
| Archiving status | Unknown |
| Archiving type | Unknown |
| IRC channel | #gamejilt (on hackint) |
Game Jolt is a social platform for video games. It also hosts games, including downloadable ones for different operating systems and HTML5 ones.
On January 3, 2022, with no prior warning or official announcement, they removed their adult tag and locked a number of adult games behind a new "GAME_LOCKED_STATUS_ADULT" category. This change can be seen in their open source website/client code:
https://github.com/gamejolt/gamejolt/pull/893/commits
They also added the ability for users to report games as explicit, which may lead to further removals.
The public webpage for a locked game doesn't show up, but users who purchased a locked game can continue to download it until December 31, 2022, according to e-mails sent to developers whose games were locked.
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1478500373484564483
No one has yet investigated whether there is a workaround to download locked games that were previously free, such as by modifying their client.
2 closest WBM captures for the policy change: https://web.archive.org/web/20220102133529/https://gamejolt.com/help/guidelines https://web.archive.org/web/20220103212540/https://gamejolt.com/help/guidelines
Game Jolt offered this statement in response to an inquiry from Vice News. "While the roots of Game Jolt have been around hosting games, the site has grown to become more of a social media platform for the next generation of gamers. As such, Game Jolt recently implemented a policy that ensures games that feature explicit adult content will no longer be available. We are currently working with developers to make sure they have an opportunity to move their games to another platform, and are responding to any categorizations that may need to be reassessed."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7w779/indie-hosting-platform-game-jolt-suddenly-bans-porn-games
Discovery
It appears there is an easy way to discover based on sequential IDs: https://gamejolt.com/site-api/web/discover/games/overview/id?ignore (replace "id" with the sequential ID), which is accessed on normal game metadata page viewing.