Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks agoYou mean patent. You don’t choose to copyright things or not, all media is inherently copyrighted. This comment is technically copyrighted once I hit send. It sounds like your referring to Shadow of Mordor’s/War’s Nemesis system being patented.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Potato Pohtato
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and patent infringement are all very different.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Cool, but the difference doesn’t matter for this context, the result is the same
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
The difference does matter. Two copyrighted games can have similar mechanics. Just look at literally any pair of games in the same genre. First person shooting isn’t patented, so anybody can make an FPS game. They patented the nemesis system. Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War are copyrighted.