{"id":36221,"date":"2012-04-18T12:45:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T10:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=36221"},"modified":"2012-04-18T14:32:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T12:32:38","slug":"did-ubisoft-steal-assassins-creeds-animus-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/36221-did-ubisoft-steal-assassins-creeds-animus-idea","title":{"rendered":"Did Ubisoft steal Assassin&#8217;s Creed&#8217;s Animus idea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you ever feel a sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu while playing Assassin&#8217;s Creed, and wonder if perhaps <em>you<\/em> had an assassin ancestor and were reliving his memories through an Animus simulation designed to look like a video game? Or maybe it&#8217;s because you read <a title=\"John Beiswenger\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/24184-John-Beiswenger\">John Beiswenger&#8217;s<\/a> novel, Link, published in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>(Or maybe not.)<\/p>\n<p>Beiswenger is suing <a title=\"Ubisoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11845-Ubisoft\">Ubisoft<\/a>, alleging that they &#8220;have directly copied, and directly and contributorily infringed on the whole of [his] copyrighted work&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawsuit application, his book featured &#8220;the conception and creation of a device and process whereby ancestral memories can be accessed, recalled, relived, and re-experienced by the user&#8221;, so obviously that&#8217;s exactly the same thing as Assassin&#8217;s Creed.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty sure the whole concept of ancestral memories even being a thing was originally Carl Jung&#8217;s, but whatever.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence presented includes the fact that, in both Link and Assassin&#8217;s Creed, characters speak in the first person while experiencing an ancestor&#8217;s memories. Damning stuff indeed.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5902903\/man-sues-ubisoft-claims-he-came-up-with-assassins-creed-first\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an author who definitely thinks so<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":35460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,145,3594,3595,733],"class_list":["post-36221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-assassins-creed","tag-john-beiswenger","tag-link","tag-ubisoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36289,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36221\/revisions\/36289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}