SvennoJ said:
IkePoR said:
Well it says they attempted to reach out to Hello Games and haven't gotten a response. It's important to note that there's no timetable for this - they could have contacted them ages ago and still haven't heard anything.
If I'd been trying to contact you over something I owned and knew you were plagiarizing to make profit and you ignored me, I'd make noise around the same time Genicap is. Just before you could make a red cent off my patent. Right now there's no way to tell if this is the case but if it is, it makes a lot of sense.
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NMS has been in crush time game development for a long time. When you're trying to finish a game on time, there's not much time to discuss how it all works. That's what Gielis seems to want from Hello games.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-07-21-why-no-mans-sky-fans-are-worried-about-a-patented-superformula
- It would be great to exchange knowhow with Hello Games. We believe No Man's Sky is the beginning of a new generation of games. What Hello games did with the formula is very impressive. Johan Gielis, the founder of Genicap and the one who discovered the superformula, is extremely proud.
- If Hello Games used our technology, at some stage we will have to get to the table. We have reached out to them but understand they have been busy. We trust that we will be able to discuss this in a normal way.
It's the Telegraaf that's stirring things up
The Telegraaf quotes an ICT lawyer, called Arnoud Engelfriet, as saying if No Man's Sky infringes on Gielis' patent, then there should be "a compensation", and "distribution should be discontinued".
It's not even Genicap's patent lawyer.
So in the end I guess that even if NMS uses the super formula, all that Genicap wants is their knowledge to further their own work to create a working engine
- Genicap is working on a project to create revolutionary software based on the superformula that can be used likewise by indies and the major game studios.
- Using the superformula to generate natural objects enables you to create endless varied and original objects such as trees, rocks, beaches, planets and mountains. Currently most of this work is still done manually. We are still in the conceptual phase. We expect to be able to tell you more in autumn.
You can use our formula, if you show us how you made all of that with it. Of course then the patent lawyers step in as Hello games could just as well patent their applications. It would all just be a lot nicer without patent lawyers!
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honestly that sounds to me like they just want to know how Hello Games is making their game, in an attempt to use the same technology in their software. sounds like a scam to try copy/steal what Hello Games did, and try come out as the "nice guy" in the attempt.
