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Borderlands

Welded Diablo's randomized loot tables onto an FPS, creating the looter-shooter genre.

Released 2009 Developer Gearbox Software Publisher 2K Games Platform Xbox 360 Genre Looter shooter Era Digital storefronts & indie

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Borderlands inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Experience Points and Levels 1980Procedural Loot Tables 1996Colour-Coded Loot Rarity 1996Branching Skill Tree 1996Drop-In Co-op Campaign 2001

The Borderlands series in this dataset

2009
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2012

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