Game Design, Programming and running a one-man games business…

Lots going on

cliffski

There is a lot of stuff happening right now. Mac GSB on steam is imminent. I have released a bundle of the DLC for GSB getting all 4 packs for $9.99, which you can get here:

http://www.positech.co.uk/gratuitousspacebattles/dlcbundle.html

(That bundle might not last forever, so be quick)

I am working on campaign stuff, which is going well. I also fixed a GSB bug where limpet launchers and plasma torpedoes launched from the wrong place in multi-hardpoint slots. How did I not spot that one before eh?

In the news I notice this insanity:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11531677

Frankly, if your business model relies on preventing your competitors from advertising, then your product must suck. The best way to beat your rivals out-advertising you is to have a better product, better service, or even to spend a bit mroe on ads or make better ones. Reaching for the lawyers is a cynical, desperate and ultimately doomed move. Interflora don’t own a patent on the idea of selling flowers. If I owned shares in interflora I’d dump all of them immediately.

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  2. Actually, I don’t follow you with the interflora stuff. I think it is about time someone is trying to defend themself. Interflora is not suing M&S because they advertise for selling flowers, they are suing them because they are registering the keyword interflora. I know this is common practice but this is absolutely unfair and it would be normal that this stuff was not legal or at least that people could prevent it.

    Would you be happy if I started a campaign registering Positech, GSP, etc… and make sure I spend enough money to garanty I will always get first position? So, I can stil a lot of your business. That is exactly what M&S is doing (at least for the word INTERFLORA).

  3. Thats a scary precedent itself though. Does a certain mobile phobne company own the rights to prevent everyone on earth using the word ‘orange’ in an advert?
    There are a lot of companies, and a lot of names, how long before advert keywords become like domain names, with every conceivable one protected?

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