I’ve played a few IFComp games that I think warrant additional content warnings beyond what’s on the comp page. I’ll note them here, and invite others to contribute any you notice.
This first post is a wiki, so feel free to edit it to add any CWs that you find. Note that if you edit it, you can see all the blurred spoilers, so if that’s something you want to avoid, you can write your contribution elsewhere and copy/paste it while trying to avoid looking at the others. Use [spoiler] and [/spoiler] to make your own blurred text. - Hidnook
(Authors, please don’t view this as a judgement on you or your work—these are just things I think some players would like a heads-up about. And to anyone who dislikes CWs or doesn’t see the need for them, please just pass this thread by.)
First Contact: explicit sexual content
Awakened Deeply: Mass murder, dismemberment, blood, brief descriptions of corpses and injuries. Ending spoiler: One ending has the protagonist die in a suicide mission.
Imprimatura: brief description of a car accident, mention of a loved one’s death in a car accident [Has been updated on the comp page]
String Theory: While the CW on the comp page says “indirect descriptions of a car accident,” depending on your choice at a certain moment you may get a very direct depiction of a car accident
(Also, you can update your entry’s content warnings at any time during the competition, so if an author wants to add these to the game itself, they can!)
Not sure if you can make a post a wiki page after the fact, but if you can, I’d recommend doing so so that the warnings are in one centralized location instead of throughout the thread.
Personally, as Italian and European, I disagree on one specific word, but I follow your suggestion; this is also my stance on the content warning, at least during the judging period.
Oh this is a good point. I had not considered the car accident description!
Edit: I have updated the CW to say the following: “Brief verbal descriptions of a loved one dying of cancer; a verbal description of a car accident involving a death; some descriptions of anxiety, depression, emotional abuse, and the threat of physical abuse. Light cursing.”
I added “threat of physical abuse” because there is a passage where an adult threatens to hit a child and raises their hand as if they may do it, but ultimately does not.