The Patent On Loading Screen Mini-Games Is About To Expire
January 01, 0001 | By **A. Sinclair**
For twenty years, Namco Bandai has Y1 com Game held patent US 5718632 A, which y1 com games has given them ownership of the idea of a loading screen minigame. On November 27 (this Friday), that patent expires. This is a big deal! For two decades, companies that wanted to keep players busy during load times (likeRidge Racer’s amazing Galaga) either had to pay Namco, find ways around it (as EA’s FIFA series has) or…give up and go back to writing a ton of boring tips and lore screens for people to read.
Come Friday though it’s open season. To celebrate,there’ll be a Loading Screen Jam held, asking developers to “Create games/interactive material 
based on infringing the now-defunct patent in any way possible!” Don’t go expecting minigames to start turning up in bigger games quite so quickly, though. The patent forbids people from 
even working on minigames, let alone implementing them, so it might take a while to get them ready.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1744705351","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); If you want to read more about the inherent weirdness of Namco having been granted this patent, David Hoppe wrote this thing 
in February Y1 COM which will help you out
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