Deutsch • Re: Luanti for Youth Work - Dimensions of Laws and how to get a "legal" use of the Game

I do think heading for a lower IARC rating would be a valuable step on the roadmap. It is getting more useful lately (see https://kanzlei-kramarz.de/die-anerkenn ... alen-raum/), and even in cases where it is not yet legally binding, the IARC rating often serves as a significant first orientation for authorities or organisations which can provide a binding assessment.

A possibility would be to act similar to what Fortnite does, and register as an IARC member who acts as a content distributor. Authors of ContentDB-accessible modules could then fill out the IARC survey and get a rating for their content, while the client would have to enforce the age restrictions obtained this way. But this would require a legal entity as the IARC member, and someone would have to be willing to pay for the membership.

A more lightweight (community-wise) approach would be not to be a content distributor, but leave that to the channels where the client is distributed. It would still make sense to head for proper tagging of the ContentDB entries in a way to cover what is relevant for IARC. Then, it's possible to decide which restrictions to impose in order to get e.g. an IARC 6 rating, create a Luanti build which allows only fetching ContentDB entries which have compatible tags, and get that Luanti build rated. Still, the client-side restriction should be seriously implemented avoid the risk of the IARC rating being disputed.

Statistics: Posted by zeuner — Thu Apr 09, 2026 21:26