Public talk by game developer legend Patrice Désilets on 4 October 2022
Patrice Désilets, creator of Assassin's Creed, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and CEO of Panache Digital, will give a talk at ETH Zurich organized by the Game Technology Center in cooperation with Visiting Prof. Johanna Pirker.
Title: You got a minute? 25 years of experience in video game creation
Speaker: Patrice Désilets
Host: ETH Game Technology Center
Date: 4 October 2022
Time: 18:15
Room: CAB G 11, Universitätstrasse 6, 8006 Zürich, external page https://goo.gl/maps/jPLVCydnZutLVaZGA
Abstract:
Through personal anecdotes and game design concepts, it’s 25 years of experience that is shared about the importance of time in multiple facets of video game creation.
Short Bio:
Patrice Désilets is the Cofounder & Creative Director at Panache Digital Games, an independent Montreal-based studio he co-founded in 2014. With a background in film and theater and now counting 22 years of game design under the belt, he is mostly known for his work on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and as the creative director behind the global success franchise Assassin’s Creed from his years at Ubisoft Montreal. His first independent title Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, a historical action-adventure survival game, is throwing players in the African jungle 10 million years ago and asking one simple question: “You Homo Sapiens, can you survive like your ancestors did?”