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Qix was a pioneering arcade game made by the Taito Corporation of Japan, which wasn't nearly as good as Defender. You can learn more about it here, but for our purposes it is a metaphor for stupid legal drafting.

Gameplay

You control a marker that can draw lines (“Stix”) on a black screen of unclaimed “playfield”. The goal is to create closed rectangles on the playfield. the playfield is inhabited with a “Qix” (a stick-like entity that perform graceful but unpredictable motions within the confines of the unclaimed playfield), which will kill you if it can touch you or an uncompleted rectangle while you in the process of drawing it. When completed, the captured rectangle becomes a solid colour (depending on what speed you drew it at) and points are awarded. To complete a level, the player must claim 75% of the playfield with solid rectangles.

You die if the Qix touches any uncompleted Stix or if your marker is touched by any of the “Sparx” – enemies that traverse all playfield edges except uncompleted Stix. There is no defence against the Qix or Sparx (that is, no smart bomb or anything like that) and you must out-maneuver them in order to survive.

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 [[Qix]] was a pioneering arcade game made by the Taito Corporation of Japan, which wasn't nearly as good as [[Defender]]. You can learn more about it [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qix here], but for our purposes it is a metaphor for stupid legal drafting.
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 ====Gameplay====
-The player controls a marker that can draw lines (“Stix”) on a black screen of unclaimed “playfield” in an attempt to create closed rectangles on the playfield. the playfield is inhabited with one (or more) “Qix” (stick-like entities that perform graceful but unpredictable motions within the confines of the unclaimed playfield), which will kill you if they touch you while you in the middle of drawing a new rectangle  When completed, the captured rectangle becomes a solid colour and points are awarded. To complete a level, the player must claim 75% of the playfield with solid rectangles.
+You control a marker that can draw lines (“Stix”) on a black screen of unclaimed “playfield”. The goal is to create closed rectangles on the playfield. the playfield is inhabited with a “Qix” (a stick-like entity that perform graceful but unpredictable motions within the confines of the unclaimed playfield), which will kill you if it can touch you or an uncompleted rectangle while you in the process of drawing it. When completed, the captured rectangle becomes a solid colour (depending on what speed you drew it at) and points are awarded. To complete a level, the player must claim 75% of the playfield with solid rectangles.
-The player's marker can move at two different speeds; areas drawn exclusively at the slower speed (orange-red on the screenshot shown) are worth double points. It cannot cross or backtrack along any Stix in progress.
-A life is lost if the Qix touches any uncompleted Stix or if the marker is touched by any of the Sparx – enemies that traverse all playfield edges except uncompleted Stix. In addition, if the marker stops while drawing, a fuse will appear and burn along the uncompleted Stix toward the marker; if it reaches the marker, the player loses one life. The fuse disappears once the player moves the marker again. The player has no defenses against the enemies and must out-maneuver them in order to survive.
+You die if the Qix touches any uncompleted Stix or if your marker is touched by any of the “Sparx” – enemies that traverse all playfield edges except uncompleted Stix. There is no defence against the Qix or Sparx (that is, no [[smart bomb]] or anything like that) and you must out-maneuver them in order to survive.
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