{"id":3664,"date":"2011-01-31T13:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2013-10-09T13:24:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T18:24:44","slug":"is-imitation-the-sincerest-form-of-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/?p=3664","title":{"rendered":"Imitation the Sincerest Form of Theft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube id=&#8221;OmeP1YkaeTo&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221;]This is old news, but most people missed it when it first came through. Borderlands (2009) seems to have been <strong>heavily<\/strong> influenced by &#8220;Codehunters,&#8221; a film short created by Ben Hibon in 2005. It was made for MTV Asia as part of their 2006 Music Awards show.<\/p>\n<p>Randy Pitchford, the president of Borderlands-developer Gearbox, responded basically with an &#8220;everyone does it,&#8221; saying, &#8220;<em>The Incredibles<\/em> was clearly a big source of influence for titles like Battlefield Heroes and Team Fortress 2 (and other amazing games and media).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch it and judge for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5444016\/separated-at-birth-borderlands-and-codehunters\">&#8220;Separated At Birth: Borderlands And CodeHunters&#8221; [Kotaku]<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/features.cgsociety.org\/story_custom.php?story_id=3620\">Codehunters [CG Society]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube id=&#8221;OmeP1YkaeTo&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221;]This is old news, but most people missed it when it first came through. Borderlands (2009) seems to have been heavily influenced by &#8220;Codehunters,&#8221; a film short created by Ben Hibon in 2005. It was made for MTV Asia as part of their 2006 Music Awards show. Randy Pitchford, the president of Borderlands-developer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,106,28],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-borderlands","tag-codehunters","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6126,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions\/6126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}