Board Thread:Site Questions/@comment-14304530-20130803033843

First, let me say that I completely agree with the whole "no more haunted games" rule. I personally always thought that they came off as laughable at best and just flat-out terrible at worst, and more often than not, they ended up around the "flat-out terrible" end of the spectrum (BEN being the exception to the rule, of course.)

Now that that's out of the way, I was simply wondering; what constitutes as a "haunted" game? For example, if a game is sentient- and by sentient, I mean that the characters are totally self aware, or even that the game is self aware, and can feel pain and emotions, not that they are possessed by another sentient being*- would that make the game haunted? Like, if you had a game that could recognize its surroundings, that could feel pain, that could be actively malevolent but is not possessed, would that fall under "no haunted games" rule? I ask because I'm currently writing a story with a premise similar to this, and I don't want to get too far into it if it's going to be deleted.


 * Sorry for the run-on sentence.

TL;DR, if a game is sentient, does it break the "no haunted file/games" rule? 