Pro@programming.dev to Piracy@programming.devEnglish · 1 month agoLast week, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company received a U.S. patent on summoning a character and letting it fight anothergamesfray.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up128arrow-down1external-linkLast week, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company received a U.S. patent on summoning a character and letting it fight anothergamesfray.comPro@programming.dev to Piracy@programming.devEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square7fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoWhat aboutl an “NPC” ? Patented.
minus-squareChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoExisting game industry patents already mention NPCs off-hand as an existing concept. Not that it would stop the US Patent Office.
What aboutl an “NPC” ? Patented.
Existing game industry patents already mention NPCs off-hand as an existing concept. Not that it would stop the US Patent Office.