No Kids?

Development limitations and gameplay reasons. There could be a reason Lorewise, though. What I'm wondering is why we don't have any guys who are the same height as the girls, and vice versa.

I think a better question to ask is what would happen if a cripple wound up in the Fog?

So, I'd be against having children personally even if it made sense lore wise and the reason is perception. We already deal with people shouting at video games as the cause of all the worlds violence problems, can you imagine what they'd do if a video game gave them Children being kidnapped and sent to a world where they were killed over and over and over again by a demented killer?

@βLAKE said:
How come there are no children present in the Entity's world? No kid survivors or kid killers? Wouldn't kids be an easier target since they are easily prone to losing hope and do the bidding of the entity?

I think this is a poor question. Who wants a child killer? Seriously? I know its all fiction and fun, but some borders/lines don't need crossed.

Children are precious and sacred and innocent. We don't even need that... even in a fantasy fiction horror game.

But would you feel good about yourself after killing a kid though?

Fun fact, guys--while it's not illegal to show the death of children in a video game or film, it does cause the rating to go up and can greatly impact sales. That's why in most games where children can die (Telltale's TWD, Detroit: Become Human, Heavy Rain for examples), its not shown on-screen. On top of that, sales would be impacted in countries with higher censorship laws, such as Australia. It's an issue of morality.

On a lore basis, I like to think the Entity is incapable of eating children simply because they're too hard to catch. Outside of its realm, hope is a repellent, and children are especially hopeful. It's harder for a child to truly despair, even at the worst of times.

Can't say for the lore explaination but

The comercial explaination is that some country could ban the game for containing explicit violence against children.
Australia already ban game for FAR less

Laurie is only 17, and Quentin can't be that much older.

One possible lore reason is that the Huntress refuses to intentionally kill little girls. I imagine she was ready to kill for the entity from the start and i would think it's too smart to go against her one rule. I guess that doesn't go against the possibility of adding boys but i think others have already stated plenty of reasons, even lore ones.

The entity does not take children in to it's realm

think about this in a real sense and not a lore sense...how would it look to have a game where you can kill little kids by hanging them on meat hooks.

I don't think it will be appropriate to see a 12yo child being chainsaw in two piece by a savage killer, for exemple Leatherface with his memento

@Chrismor said:
children and terror and gore have always been a taboo very few movies have had the "courage" to show or even suggest child deaths that are not in the context of an accident

right now I only remember The Blob and the Japanese movie Battle Royale about a child killer, what about that "little boy" in the movie Trick'r treat kill with a lollipop would be fun

Go watch Lord of the Flies. All about crazy kids that turn on each other . They even kill one kid by pushing a huge boulder on top of his head!

@Twitchin said:
View model and animations would be harder because obviously, smaller the player model the harder it is to see in grass, on the map in general.

Not sure it's something the developers would like to really do, considering it would require a lot of balances.

I'm also not sure how the story would be written for that either.

What do I know though.

@Dizzylizard said:
difficult to pull off without causing an uproar about connotations with a case like the poor Jamey bulger murder in Britain, in ether case it would be risky to introduce a child in some way without ensuing a lawsuit from someone regardless of which side of the game the are on.

Also this ^

here the lore, little timmy went a little too far away in recess and was never seen again

From a lore perspective...."The Entity needs each Survivor to feel hope," - I think a kid would be instantly terrified to the point that hope wouldnt be a thought in their mind at any point of the trials.

I personally think it would be a cool idea, I am sure some others would agree, but kids being killed is a bad look for the game, even if it is just a game. Some people cannot accept that.

We can pretend story/lore wise that there may be or are children, even if the devs have not mentioned anything about it. But it really just comes down to how it would look to the rest of society.

And with how things have been the past few years, I can't say it would be a positive outlook. Even if the general audience does not care.

But I do think a child as a killer has more potential to get into the game than a child as a survivor.

I think kids would lose too much hope and besides, being another survivor and seeing/hearing a kid being put on a meat hook would really lower your sanity.