![]() ![]() In a tweet last week, one of the Innersloth developers claimed that they “didn’t patent the Among Us mechanics” because that doesn’t “lead to a healthy game industry”. The two key intellectual property rights that might have assisted Innersloth are patents and copyright, but neither are likely to apply to protect the Among Us game mechanics. However, has Epic Games actually done anything wrong by implementing the Among Us game concept into Fortnite? Innersloth’s developers have taken to Twitter to make clear that Fortnite Impostors is not a collaboration between Innersloth and Epic Games, and to express their disappointment about that. If you’re at all interested in the video games industry and haven’t been living under a rock for the past year, you’ll know that the game mode being described is conceptually very similar to last year’s viral hit game, Among Us, which was developed by the small indie games studio Innersloth (they have less than ten employees and had only four when developing Among Us). Players must try to work out who the two impostors are and vote them off, while the impostors try to deceive the others and complete their takeover without being voted off by the group. ![]() It involves ten players: eight of which are aiming to maintain the “Bridge” location by completing various “assignments” and two of which are “impostors” aiming to overtake it. What is the legal position?Įpic Games has introduced a new game mode within its hugely popular game Fortnite, called “Fortnite Impostors”. Impostor! Epic Games releases ‘Among Us’ game mode in Fortnite. ![]()
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