Here are some ideas my partner and I came up with:
- Plain game packaging, like cigarettes.
- Change parental perception of the medium.
- Consoles/PCs need better and more accessible parental controls.
- Parents need to be playing/learning about these games with their kids.
- Extra verification for online purchases.
- Vendors offering PG versions of games.
- Ability to turn off adult content in games. Eg. Blood, gore, swearing and sexual content.
- R-Rated games should be segregated further in game stores.
- Kids games need to be more prominent in game stores.
- Order games by rating or genre rather than alphabetically.
- Section for kids/kid-suitable games in stores.
- Age recommendations for games, as on board games and toys.
- Educate kids about what they're seeing in these games.
- Get the media to stop dramatising video game-related violence.
- More psychological help for kids that are struggling with mental illness.
- Encourage parents to engage with their children rather than using TV/gaming as a babysitter.
- Time restrictions on video games, like they do with TV.
- Parents shouldn't play adult content while the kids are around.
- Advertising for adult games should be in adult time slots on TV.
- R-Rated games should not be publicly advertised. Eg. On sides of buses, in magazines, etc.
- Ban kids from playing games altogether.
- Make consoles that read the age of the player before they are allowed to play.
- Make consoles more friendly to parents, and encourage them to set them up for their children first and put parental controls in place.
- Limit childrens' screen time.
- Make it punishable by law to allow your kids to view adult content.
- Make the games "uncool" among kids.
- Unlock violent features of the game by requiring an adult-level question to be answered.
- Scan ID cards to access adult content on consoles.
