Simple Mod For Vampire/Zombie FPS Based on New Patent? Thread

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Against the growth of the corporate-state? Wouldn't the author of the patent and all of these ideas be the same person who is profiting gratuitously should this idea succeed? I mean, it almost seems hypocritical.

Also, I notice that the one blog post there says that one of the problems with Bioshock was that you could embrace a vice and still win the game. As I stated before:

Someone mentioned "Starwars RPG" before. Starwars Knights of the Old Republic already goes exactly that. Ideas have consequences (your choices can turn you to the light or the dark side) and soul, character, and honor do matter on the light side. The only difference is that the character is free to turn to the dark side if he so wishes.

I don't believe you have a billion dollar idea.

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I doubt we will ever get a direct response to any of our questions or observations.

Also, after looking at some of his links, they do not directly address what he is talking about. I believe the idea here is to make it look like something is going on where it really isn't; that's to say that he has a site with a lot of text talking about his ideas, but nothing has been produced so far, as far as I can tell. There is no way to know if this is what the people want if you haven't even given them a real sample yet.
That said, you would gain a considerable amount of respect from me if your next post did not contain a wall of text but instead addressed each of our recent comments individually, and without a bit of superficial text and a million links.

Edited by: Kyogreex

Well. I've read what you've written, and I've read at least half of the literary works you're referring to. Of your patent I've read three, maybe four pages. I really lost it when you mentioned that 1984 could be improved. Come on.

What is it that you're licensing? A morality based consequence mechanic, preferably morality of your personal preferences? It has nothing to do with game development! At one point you're illustrating a dialogue tree, it has been done! Such games have rarely been very successful, and while there are some artistic merit to them, they wont make you a billionaire. A strong foundation of "healthy" moral values wont change that. The amount of work you have put into a game like this is huge. This patent wont make the workload easier, if you had invested your time in writing an engine or a RPG framework perhaps, but these are just lofty ideas. Lofty ideas that have been realized to some degree. Try to look past the (un)moral values and see it from a technical standpoint, you'll realize that it has been done.

Edited by: monkeyface

Care tell the ignorants like me on why him being Dr. McGucken would be relevant?

patents aren't cheap ... they cost thousands of dollars ... hes probably trying to get his money out ...

It explains the ranting as well ... people with doctorates are generally long winded ...

But in general Dr. McGucken (if thats who you really are) ...i think you fail to realize that the modding community is different than a paid organization ... we don't really follow anybody with the latest idea and the most demanding voice ... ideas are extremely cheap ... generally its the people with some actual developmental skill that we follow ...

We may be a pretty technically inclined community, but our bureaucratic heirarchy is nothing but wolfpack mentality ...

and to us you look like a small barking dog ... all bark no bite ...

Show us some models, some ingame pictures ... if you can't show us "bite" ... its very unlikely anyone here will follow you unless you pay them for it ...

Edited by: Assaultman67

I find it highly unlikely that any of the game companies that could "stand to make money" from this venture will do anything either. You can call something "the next big thing" and "a cultural renaissance" all you want, but that won't make it true. People won't accept it as that unless it becomes widely utilized in various forms of media. I would assume that's why there is a magazine, book, film, etc but I have a feeling that all this will get is a small following at the most.

I admire your adoration of classical works of literature, but not the way you intend to use them in media.

Haha

Haha.
I'm going to get a patent for my nick name...

Well, that's not good. I really feel this patent is unnecessary in the first place.
I don't think anyone would have stolen the idea.

Edited by: ngs616

Wow, you are an engeneer too, where do you find the time?
Are you studying Phisics and metalorgy too?
I suppose you have to...

Yea we have to take physics and alot of other classes that don't have a immediate connection with mechanical engineering which kinda sucks ... like this summer i just took a required class that covers basic circuit design ... like RLC alternating circuits, amps, digital logic circuits, etc

Ive already taken all my physics and a bit of materials classes ...

I have yet to take some of the more complex things such as thermodynamics though ...

Oh and thats a trademark ...

Well, thats the deal ... they're just too damn expensive to fill out unless you are absolutely sure its a great idea ... and if you can get the patent it still becomes hard to market it (you have to get someone to buy the rights to produce it from you ...)

Generally most engineers patent stuff under the company they are working for ... so the company owns it, but the engineer is credited for the work somehow with some sort of co-signature (not quite sure how that works ... i kinda stopped looking into it after i heard the catch for university funding )

Edited by: Assaultman67

Kyogreex wrote:

Someone wrote:It explains the ranting as well ... people with doctorates are generally long winded ...

Problem is, he's not ranting, he's copying text he posted earlier and on his own website and rehashing it for our enjoyment.

so hes a lazy ranter?

I bet he spends no more than 10 seconds in posting. Maybe the odd few times he may actually look at one of our posts and reply with something out of context, but that's about it I guess.

Edited by: Toyoka