{"id":61585,"date":"2014-01-24T11:44:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T09:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=61585"},"modified":"2014-01-24T11:46:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T09:46:44","slug":"shadow-of-mordor-accused-of-stealing-assassins-creed-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61585-shadow-of-mordor-accused-of-stealing-assassins-creed-code","title":{"rendered":"Shadow of Mordor accused of stealing Assassin&#8217;s Creed code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen the new Shadow of Mordor gameplay trailer? It&#8217;s at the bottom of the article if you haven&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fairly obvious to any Assassin&#8217;s Creed fan that elements of Shadow of Mordor were inspired by the series.<\/p>\n<p>A former Ubisoft developer reckons they were more than inspired though, accusing developer Monolith Productions of stealing code and animations.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Randall was lead developer on AI fighting systems and a senior gameplay coder at Ubisoft Toronto during development of Assassin&#8217;s Creed 2.<\/p>\n<p>He took his complaints to Twitter:<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-61585 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61585-shadow-of-mordor-accused-of-stealing-assassins-creed-code\/attachment\/charles-randall-5'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Charles-Randall-5-96x68.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61585-shadow-of-mordor-accused-of-stealing-assassins-creed-code\/attachment\/charles-randall-4'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Charles-Randall-4-96x68.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61585-shadow-of-mordor-accused-of-stealing-assassins-creed-code\/attachment\/charles-randall-3'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Charles-Randall-3-96x68.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61585-shadow-of-mordor-accused-of-stealing-assassins-creed-code\/attachment\/charles-randall-2'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Charles-Randall-2-96x68.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61585-shadow-of-mordor-accused-of-stealing-assassins-creed-code\/attachment\/charles-randall-1'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Charles-Randall-1-96x68.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7fB64APq_jk\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Those are some pretty serious allegations &#8211; stolen code is surely no trivial matter? 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