Sex and video game

The inclusion of sex and nudity in video games has been controversial since the early days of the video game industry. While many video games have used scantily clad images or characters to sell or enhance games, some go further, using sex acts or nudity as a character motivation that is, the reason for a character's behaviors and actions , in-game reward, or simply as a gameplay element. These games originate worldwide, on most platforms and can be of any video game genre. While releases in Europe and North America have been sporadic and often unlicensed, Japan has seen the emergence of a pornographic video game subgenre— eroge , first appearing on the NEC PC computer platform in the s.

An open-source video game , or simply an open-source game , is a video game whose source code is open-source. They are often freely distributable and sometimes cross-platform compatible. Most free games are open-source, but not all open-source games are free software ; some open-source games contain proprietary non-free content. Open source games that are free software and contain exclusively free content conform to DFSG , free culture , and open content and are sometimes called free games. Many Linux distributions require for inclusion that the game content is freely redistributable, freeware or commercial restriction clauses are prohibited.

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