the company i worked for at the time got these letters back in june or july...
we laughed at them then and will laugh at them now.
there is so much prior technology that it's laughable that they think they can enforce this.
don't give in - just perpetuates patent fraud as a business model
there are many open source freely avialable game engines out there that let one developer (or a small team) create their own games that are comparable, or better than commercial games...
http://rfactory.uber-geek.ca
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This is the engine that I have been using to build my own game - the engine was programmed by one developer almost exclusively, with a few others contributing code fixes & features here and there...all open-source & independent...no big corporation here...
http://www.uber-geek.ca/games/turing/
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just an example of what can be created with no budget, no publisher...
the indie community is just gettin started;P
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the company i worked for at the time got these letters back in june or july... we laughed at them then and will laugh at them now. there is so much prior technology that it's laughable that they think they can enforce this. don't give in - just perpetuates patent fraud as a business model
there are many open source freely avialable game engines out there that let one developer (or a small team) create their own games that are comparable, or better than commercial games... http://rfactory.uber-geek.ca [begin shameless self promotion] This is the engine that I have been using to build my own game - the engine was programmed by one developer almost exclusively, with a few others contributing code fixes & features here and there...all open-source & independent...no big corporation here... http://www.uber-geek.ca/games/turing/ [/end shameless self promotion] just an example of what can be created with no budget, no publisher... the indie community is just gettin started ;P