Recently some game studios have began applying patents on the mechanism used in their games.
This means other studios can’t make use of similar styles in their games.
Personally I think this is a problem because the way the game industry progresses is by making previous games better in new forms.
What do you think ?
I would say it depends on what property the studios are filing for patents. There are studios that wish to maintain a unique mechanism that they produced just for their video game. The same has started happening with VFX studios as well. However, I agree that this will be a problem when developers take advantage of this and start patenting the most basic mechanisms and locking them from access to others.