• @Grangle1@lemm.ee
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      46 hours ago

      So the first two seem to deal with throwing a capture item at a creature (wild pokemon) and/or releasing a character’s own creature to fight it (essentially first seen in Legends Arceus, tossing a ball at a pokemon to aggro it and then fighting it with your pokemon). The third one is, as others have said, Mount transitions (at least in pokemon, also first seen in Legends Arceus if you only count ride pokemon; if vehicles are included I believe the first would be Sword/Shield). Though if vehicles are included Nintendo would have a hard time fighting that one. Vehicle transformation, especially in racing games, has been around forever.

    • blargbluuk
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      9313 hours ago

      How do these not apply to the majority of games, these sound so insanely broad. Patents are so stupid.

    • @MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world
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      1410 hours ago

      The solutions here don’t seem to really be solutions in my opinion, especially the third one. It’s like if the problem a patent solves was “being able to individually package sandwiches on a conveyor belt” and the solution was “have a machine that recognizes where one sandwich ends and another begins so it can stop and start packaging appropriately.” Like, no kidding, but how?

    • @einkorn@feddit.org
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      2913 hours ago

      Hold my bacon, one can patent the idea that a game character switches mounts depending on a given state? (Image 3)

      • @YukiA
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        1913 hours ago

        Seems like it. So when you come down from the sky on your flying mount and get close to the ground, you swap to a horse mount for example.

        How can one patent this… wtf!

      • TimeSquirrel
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        Software patents are fucked, ain’t they? You can implement a thing using completely different code, algorithms, hell even programming languages/CPU architectures, and you’d still be infringing. There was some stupid fight over a simple slider UI element to unlock a phone a few years back.

        • @JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz
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          1212 hours ago

          Yeah software patents should be like “this exact code” or something along these lines. I mean patenting “hello world” should give you billions

          • @VonReposti@feddit.dk
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            710 hours ago

            Code is already copyrighted by default, so no need for software patents. Luckily software patents are null and void in EU, so I don’t have to worry about that.

    • @Grofit@lemmy.world
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      38 hours ago

      If these were stories I was picking up to implement I would be asking the BA to elaborate some more 😂