It's Friday, and well, it's been a busy week. Normally I'd fix the bugs before releasing, but I'm out of time, and the bugs are minor, so why not. There's going to be bugs during development, despite my best intentions.
The most obvious change is that we now have a title screen. Here is it:
Which brings us to the first bug. The instructions fail to mention that we now have jumping too. You can jump by pressing the space bar. Click here to try it out: ActionJump Version 0.004
The second bug is that the TM isn't lined up with the Game Title on the Title Screen. This kind of pickyness is what separates the amateurs from the pros (insert cool smiley face graphics here).
Which brings us to the whole issue of Trademarks. I'm not a lawyer, so please do your own research on this rather than taking my word for it. I now have a trademark for Action Jump, the video game. How did I do that? I released it to the public and used the "TM" letters to let everyone know that it's my trademark. That's all there is to it, no expensive registration or legal fees required. Of course I'm risking incurring the wrath of other companies who might think that I'm infringing on their trademark. A quick Google search tells me that I'm probably OK. I have yet to find another video game or software product with this name. There is a company out there with that name and URL, but they are in a different trademark category.
It's similar to Bentley Bear. The Bentley car company would have a trademark infringement claim against Atari if it weren't for the fact that Bentley Bear isn't a car. By the way, Bentley Bear was originally called "Bear Braveheart" (my idea). This was several years before the famous movie came out. Atari decided that "Bear Braveheart" was politically incorrect (yes, really) and thus the name change.
Am I going to work the weekend? Yes. I can't wait to make the game playable.
-- fxl
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