US Patent Issued to DISCORD on June 30 for "Game designer tool for scripting complex gameplay actions" (Arizona, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,786, issued on June 30, was assigned to DISCORD INC. (San Francisco).

"Game designer tool for scripting complex gameplay actions" was invented by Joseph Houston (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Preston Hulcy (Burleson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides a scripting tool, built on top of an object component architecture of a game engine for creating games, that binds an event class for a tagged event handler in code at compile time. The event handler in code is tied to movement of one or more objects and associated effects within a game environment. Through the scripting tool, game engineers generate and define...