It sucks, but there is still a major segment of the population of the US with a puritanical mind-set, and because of this corporations based here have policies to help prevent them from getting complaints from such people. Alas, I can only hope that by 2050 the streets are paved with ***** and every doorway is sculpted to look like a *****.
Edit: I just learned the word ***** is censored on these forums.
Sorry to revive this thread,but I have question. If I were to make a erotic game call TurboDude. Now according to I have to remove the trademarks,logos,and any other proof that Turbodude was made with UE4. Ok I got that. Now here question If my game TurboDude made $5.000 with in the quarter. Do I owe Epic any Royalties? Seeing as epic want nothing erotic related linking back to them.
Yes.
Money and publicity are different things. They still very much require the money.
I see. If that the case can I still promote Turboman as being made with UE4? I know I can’t post here but say at a site like Hongfire,Dlsite or my personal blog. Can I tell people that I made this game using UE4?
I don’t think so, but you should ask your own lawyer for the interpretation of the EPIC license that applies to your case if you want to know for sure.
Just say “made with world-leading game engine technology” and call it good 
lol, or just say
Made with world-leading game engine technology, and that it’s not unity, and it’s not crysis… Draw your own conclusions… lol
So Udk…?
Interesting information for sure, as I have considered making a paroday/hentai game of my own. Now we shall see if the term vajazzler gets turned into asterisks.
It is hard to understand why sexual content is not allowed on the forum, when at the same time such an explicit amount of graphical and interactive violence through gaming is exposed to young people on the Epic Forums. Any Gears of War 4 reference should not be allowed either, for example.
I’m with you.
The reason is that the cultural climate in the US (where EPIC is based) is ENTIRELY DIFFERENT from the cultural climate in Europe or South America.
It’s hard to understand just how different they are, unless you’ve lived in both places (which I have.)
My guess is that this can be traced back to the US being settled by Puritans in the 1600s …
If it were my game, I would take the word “promote” to be the key.
If a user asked me on the forums for my game whether I used Unreal Engine or not, I wouldn’t think it would be bad to answer “yes.”
Meanwhile, if I made a YouTube trailer, or was asked by a reporter, or made a press release, or did some other “promotion-like” activity, I would not put the two together.
Your interpretation and risk profile may be different.
Meh, they should just check the age through the forum profiles and lock automatically any thread from view if the user accessing them is underage.
I mean, technology anyone? Good enough to do a game engine but not so much for an age check ?
Even , if a user fakes the age on the forum registration it would not really be Epic’s problem anymore if they modify the joining agreements.
Everyone who’s above 18 is being disserviced right now, I’m hella curious
I’m with you.
The reason is that the cultural climate in the US (where EPIC is based) is ENTIRELY DIFFERENT from the cultural climate in Europe or South America.
It’s hard to understand just how different they are, unless you’ve lived in both places (which I have.)
My guess is that this can be traced back to the US being settled by Puritans in the 1600s …
If it were my game, I would take the word “promote” to be the key.
If a user asked me on the forums for my game whether I used Unreal Engine or not, I wouldn’t think it would be bad to answer “yes.”
Meanwhile, if I made a YouTube trailer, or was asked by a reporter, or made a press release, or did some other “promotion-like” activity, I would not put the two together.
Your interpretation and risk profile may be different.
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Man that suck,but I have to agree with you. The thing is UE4 not just the engine but the brand name would have help me. The game I’m trying to make are called eroges. Half to majority of them or terrible to average. Made by Rpg maker and Unity3d. Unlike Unity3d UE4 don’t have a Polycount limit,it open source and it powerful. Plus The brand will atleast can help separate from other Eroge Developer which will help me generate revenue.
Wait a minute! I got another question. What If I Made two version of the same game one clean and one Adult. For example using Turboman. What if I made a rate E Turboman and promoted here as the clean version. While I make an Adult Version of Turboman at a another but adult site. Would that be okay?
As long as you are not promoting the 18+ version on this site or linking to it, that’s probably fine (I don’t know what the content looks like in general so I’m assuming). Like I said, it’s just about the content that you’re displaying or linking to on the forums. If the website hosting both the E and AO versions uses the same link for both, don’t post that either.
The point of having these forums be family friendly is to avoid age gates entirely. We have middle school and high school aged students here. I think knows quite well that age gates online are meaningless except as a means to pass off legal obligations and expecting to make sure to mark their content as “NSFW” on a per-post basis is unreliable.
I don’t see any problem in a group of people starting a private forum of their own for posting these things elsewhere, but this forum in particular is not somewhere that will be allowed.
Ah I see thanks. But Don’t we still need an age gate. Even if you remove the Sexual content? For example say I made a gory game similar to Manhunt. It still be rated M for mature. But I’m not sure if that counts as Family friendly.
There isn’t a legal age gate requirement for violent materials.
However, we do not allow games that are overtly violent to the point they get an AO rating to be posted here either. This can be seen in the instance of the game “Hatred” which was made, but not allowed to use UE4’s logos in its promotions nor post their content on these forums.
Regarding using UE4 as “extra promotion” for the eroge: That can’t be done.
If EPIC has an office in your country, and your country generally has a different culture, you may be able to talk to them about differences, perhaps. But this forum is not right for that.
My advice would be to make a game that looks so good that you don’t have to talk about the game engine; instead just talk about how awesome it looks and how great it runs 
Just curious on this topic. Although am not looking to make any type of so-called adult game per-sey I was working on one that has brief nudity in the off the map type places that people would have to actively search for, and can include the ratings, but like the game thief 2014 it has some near nude woman and totally nude woman in it. Does this mean if I was to release it at some point I would have to take all logo from Unreal off it, and not post it assosciating with the Engine, or is that ok, because it does not have actual sexual material in it?