There’s been some, Bamco had the parent for minigames during loading screens until 2015.
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Hegar@fedia.io 5 days agoYeah you can tell this is not real because a) it's greentext and b) you can't copyright game mechanics.
If you could we wouldn't have video game genres, or like 99% of board games.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 5 days ago
radix@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Active Time Battle (ATB) was under patent until 2010.
Games are just software, and software patents are definitely (and unfortunately) a thing.
denaggels@feddit.org 5 days ago
Mini Games during loading screens are patented which is why no one does it.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 days ago
This is about patents. There have been plenty of game mechanics patents ever since Richard Garfield opened the floodgates by patenting the collectable card game concept.
Tore@piefed.world 5 days ago
There is one major exception where Warner Bros. holds a highly restrictive patent on the Shadow of Mordor Nemesis system. The mechanic allows non-player characters to remember past encounters with the player, dynamically changes their personalities, and rise (or fall) through enemy ranks. If you never played it, it was a unique mechanic that I’ve never seen in other games since. The patent prevents other studios from utilizing this system and is set to expire on August 11, 2036.
TL, DR: Fuck Warner Bros for patenting this.
IronBird@lemmy.world 5 days ago
the patent wasnt even granted until last yesr or 2 iirc, because it kept on getting found too general…long as you don’t exactly copy their code your good.
the reason noones done something similar since is because you have to build your whole game around it
gurty@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The patent went through in 2021.
IronBird@lemmy.world 5 days ago
and the game was released in 2014
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
I keep hearing this one, the system was ok but I didn’t really care for it that much. It’s just an eternal list of respawning orks that I will kill.
TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk 5 days ago
Not sure that’s fair. It was the first pass at something that couple have been embraced, expanded and developed. Hell, it signposted the changed aspects and immunities of the orks as they grew.
But throw that into another harder game type where it’s on you to remember who has escaped and got wiser and it has real potential. Especially with the superhero meme of catching villains but never ending them. Some real organic potential to hit the pained hero arc where this one is such a pain maybe I should just kill this one…
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah I remember it being underwhelming