Submitting a Release
Once you create a project, click the Add Release button. This takes you to the main submission page
where we ask for information about the game, your classification of the game, your
screen shots, a link to a video, and finally your .ccgame package.
Next, you’ll need to classify your game in terms of its
content. Classification has to do with the violent, sexual, or mature content
contained in your game. While classification ratings are subjective, we try to provide
clear guidelines for each area with specific examples for each numeric level.
The classification is designed to help like-minded people to
do like-minded things. A game with 3’s across the board will still be allowed
on Xbox LIVE Marketplace. However, we want people browsing Xbox LIVE
Marketplace to understand what type of content they can expect by downloading
and playing your game. Of course, there are also specific guidelines about
prohibited content. We’ll talk about these more in the peer-review section. For
now, bear in mind it is important to classify your game accurately.
Once you’re satisfied with the accuracy of your
classification, you may provide up to three screen shots and a link to a video
if you care to post one on http://msn.video.com.
The screen shots may be either in .png or .jpg format. The
maximum allowed resolution of these images is 1280 × 720 with a 2 MB limit
per screenshot.
You are almost done! The final step is to upload your
.ccgame package.
Be sure to click the Save
Draft button. Depending upon your network connection and the size of your
upload, your upload time could be … a while. Now would be a great time to crack
open a cold one and revel in the fact that you are about to share your game with
the world!
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The feedback seems particularly geared towards addressing the obvious issues, for example it is assumed that primary content will be violence.
I find it unfortunate that strong sexual content or nudity should be excluded without question or only addressed in the simple form of "sexual overtones" and "nudity". Why is it that violence is broken down into motivation, including cruelty, but sexual content is only displayed by it's inclusion? I quickly googled to try and find out a bit more clarification about the sliders so there may be more finesse in the definitions but it certainly can't be as extensive as for the other aspects.
There are perfectly legitimate contexts in which nudity or sexual content could feature. The reason fiasco over Mass effect demonstrates the deliberate ignorance in certain parts of the community but that is not a problem solved by sanitising content.
It is understandable that the overtly pornographic games may not be consistent with objectives of the xna project but surely games should press on for equivalence with other forms of media.
Would it not be more appropriate to have gratuitous or inappropriately sexual content flag? Or sexism?
How could it categorise political content?
Alternatively is it not possible to have an over 18 rating? and ability for the user to create there own classifications? similar to sites such as youtube. There peer review seems to work fairly well.
Not that I have a game ready for submission as yet, just curious as I am studying a Bachelor of Games & Interactive Entertainment and xna is just such a great and affordable way to reach a global audience. Thanks