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.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 week ago
Copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and patent infringement are all very different.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Cool, but the difference doesn’t matter for this context, the result is the same
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 week 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.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Cool. The result is the same