I'm an idoit please enlighten me
I'm an idoit please enlighten me
In terms of games, what does IP mean?
Re: I'm an idoit please enlighten me
Intellectual Property?
Unless you mean Intelligence Points for a select few RPGs?
Unless you mean Intelligence Points for a select few RPGs?
Re: I'm an idoit please enlighten me
I am guessing in the context you want it means intellectual property - could also be entitled franchise.
The most common meaning is internet protocol...
The most common meaning is internet protocol...
Re: I'm an idoit please enlighten me
Yeah those are the 2 things that pop into my head.
I've seen it used loads lately, and yes its in the context of talking about a company franchise of games. I was trying to think of that word earlier but my mind was blank as usual.
I guess Intellectual Property does make the most sense although I'm not sure if it would the phrase that I would use to descibe a series of games.
I've seen it used loads lately, and yes its in the context of talking about a company franchise of games. I was trying to think of that word earlier but my mind was blank as usual.
I guess Intellectual Property does make the most sense although I'm not sure if it would the phrase that I would use to descibe a series of games.
Re: I'm an idoit please enlighten me
damn, IP means new franchise?
I always thought it was a new gameplay type when they were saying
"We are looking into new IPs"
like you have puzzle, strategy, RPG, Shooters...like they were looking for something new
I always thought it was a new gameplay type when they were saying
"We are looking into new IPs"
like you have puzzle, strategy, RPG, Shooters...like they were looking for something new
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Re: I'm an idoit please enlighten me
nah,
when "looking for new IPs", you're looking for new faces to a game design.
Other words have been used as well like "franchise" and "license"... but those words aren't very descriptive in the sense that a franchise is a licensing the use of property to a private person.
i.e. - the state franchises the customs process to privatized custom dealers in the port of Miami
OE
Wendy's franchises the rights of the Wendy's name and product to private citizens to open.
A franchise is a private endeavor that follows the rules of a more generalized public icon.
license also isn't very descriptive because a license is a allowing the rights to a property to a certain individual.
Of course these properties that these words have been describing can have both of these actions done to them. They aren't those though. Sonic is not a franchise, just as Wendy's is not a franchise. When you walk into a Wendy's that specific store is a licensed franchise.
What game developers are making are properties for themselves. What kind of property??? Intellectual Property. It's intellectual property because it has no physical form. The idea of Sonic the Hedgehog or the game series "Virtua Fighter" has no physical form. That is intellectual property. The games made from these Intellectual Properties are then franchises or licenses of the intellectual property. Hence the long misnomer of calling "IP"s names like "franchises" or "licenses".
IPs can consist of game play ideas and the sort that can kinda be considered "genres". But that also comes into limitations of what you can patent and copyright. It's kinda hard to copyright the RPG genre, so it wouldn't particularly be considered an "Intellectual Property". IPs have to be a bit more specific then that. The head room of which is so absurdly abstract that it has allowed companies to copyright IPs that really are dumb and just make headaches.
Like SEGA copyrighting the "hand pointing the direction you go" thing in games like that Simpson car game and Crazy Taxi. Though it kinda is an IP, it isn't... I mean come on.
Either way, the way it's "supposed" to be is that Intellectual Properties can be easily distinguished and supported. For instance the entire game play idea of Sonic the Hedgehog is an intellectual property. You are a blue hedgehog that runs very fast in a side scrolling platform style game fighting the evil Dr. Eggman from turning your friends into robots.
when "looking for new IPs", you're looking for new faces to a game design.
Other words have been used as well like "franchise" and "license"... but those words aren't very descriptive in the sense that a franchise is a licensing the use of property to a private person.
i.e. - the state franchises the customs process to privatized custom dealers in the port of Miami
OE
Wendy's franchises the rights of the Wendy's name and product to private citizens to open.
A franchise is a private endeavor that follows the rules of a more generalized public icon.
license also isn't very descriptive because a license is a allowing the rights to a property to a certain individual.
Of course these properties that these words have been describing can have both of these actions done to them. They aren't those though. Sonic is not a franchise, just as Wendy's is not a franchise. When you walk into a Wendy's that specific store is a licensed franchise.
What game developers are making are properties for themselves. What kind of property??? Intellectual Property. It's intellectual property because it has no physical form. The idea of Sonic the Hedgehog or the game series "Virtua Fighter" has no physical form. That is intellectual property. The games made from these Intellectual Properties are then franchises or licenses of the intellectual property. Hence the long misnomer of calling "IP"s names like "franchises" or "licenses".
IPs can consist of game play ideas and the sort that can kinda be considered "genres". But that also comes into limitations of what you can patent and copyright. It's kinda hard to copyright the RPG genre, so it wouldn't particularly be considered an "Intellectual Property". IPs have to be a bit more specific then that. The head room of which is so absurdly abstract that it has allowed companies to copyright IPs that really are dumb and just make headaches.
Like SEGA copyrighting the "hand pointing the direction you go" thing in games like that Simpson car game and Crazy Taxi. Though it kinda is an IP, it isn't... I mean come on.
Either way, the way it's "supposed" to be is that Intellectual Properties can be easily distinguished and supported. For instance the entire game play idea of Sonic the Hedgehog is an intellectual property. You are a blue hedgehog that runs very fast in a side scrolling platform style game fighting the evil Dr. Eggman from turning your friends into robots.
Re: I'm an idoit please enlighten me
I knew I could count on you to turn up with a typically verbose explanation 
I Consider myself enlightened - IP means 'Intellectual Property' which the games press use as an alternative to the term 'Franchise' which is technically a misnomer in the first place 
Thanks
I Consider myself enlightened - IP means 'Intellectual Property' which the games press use as an alternative to the term 'Franchise' which is technically a misnomer in the first place Thanks