Well, the "Poor Man's Copyright" is to print out whatever it is, put it in an envelope, *mail it to yourself and never open it* until proof is needed in court. The post date stamped on the envelope by the post office acts as the proof of date.morph_basic

that doesn't work. You can sent opened unsealed envelopes in the mail, have them postmarked and then put whatever you want into the envelope. It hold just as much legal clout as simply asserting your copyright

Again, I would just say don't worry about it. Your copyright begins when you write it down, and if it came down to a court of law, you would probably be able to win

Also, Xaosil, just because someone pays to register a copyright for something doesn't automaticaly make it a brilliant and marketable idea. I could scribble on a piece of paper and register it with the government just as easily as a 500 page masterwork novel. In the eyes of the government, they have just as much legal weight. A developer isn't going to look at a game proposal and say "oh, wow, this is copyrighted, this is better by default"

First, put it in the sticky

Secondly, I find it an enjoyable and entertaining diversion from the rest of the game. No, it's not the most developed story, nor does it really bring anything new to the table, but it's nice nonetheless.

Also, you don't have to play it if you don't want to

Besides the fact that he said, and I quote....

"It's a great game the first time you play."

He said the game itself, not puzzles but the game.

If he was talking about puzzles wouldn't he say something more like "It's a great game after a few puzzles"? or "The first 20 puzzles are terrific"?Jaysonguy

Don't get into a battle of semantics here...you were wrong, get over it

Did you happen to think that possibly he wasn't talking about playing through the entire game, but rather the fact that he booted up the game three or four times and got bored with it?

Your reasoning skills are terrific

Knowledge is power!

solution:R4edwardorito

Of course, that's such a brilliant idea.

I mean, game developers don't deserve money for the games the develop, do they? What they're doing is essentially charity work, and they don't deserve to profit off of years of hard work and expert programming.

Games...mostly

Sometimes as a light source to see my way through dark rooms

I don't understand why you would have a $130 alarm clock, even if there's a game on the horizon that looks "really dry"...which, umm, i don't even know what that means

The good news for you is that when you create something, it's automaticaly copyrighted. You don't even have to do anything. They've changed the copyright laws fairly recently to say that a work passes into copyright the moment it is put in a "fixed media", which means paper, a word document, a .pdf...essentially, if it isn't just in your head and you've put something down, it's your copyright and you hold that copyright for 70 years after your death.

As for someone stealing your ideas...that kind of thing happens a lot less than you would believe, and as long as you can assert your creation of the copyright you should be fine.

In other words, don't worry about it, really, your ideas are safe for the most part.

I'll probably die waiting for Duke Nukem Forever...not because I particularly want to play the game, though...it'll probably just never come out

As for other things...geez, I really don't want to think about dying, I'm 22 :) there are still probably plenty of games coming around that I'll be able to play

I trade all the time...in fact, I don't even own any games for my 360, and the only game i own for the Wii is Super Smash Brothers. My DS is another story, but I frequently trade games for that as well.

I enjoy selling my games because as I figure it I can only play so many games at once, and so I don't need the games I haven't been playing for a while.

I sell my stuff on Amazon, thus avoiding the vicious shafting that places like GameStop and EB practice, so I can actually sometimes make serious money off of selling my games, instead of getting $10 for a game that's still going for $50 at retail, I can get something around $30-$40