'Assassin's Creed' Creative Director Reveals New Project: 'Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey'

By Liezl Dunuan, Christian Post Contributor Thursday, June 25, 2015

Patrice Desilets is a game creator and designer who is known for his work on "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time" and more notably, the earlier titles of the "Assassin's Creed" game series. It has been a while since he last released a game – six years to be exact.

But at the recent E3 2015, he announced his comeback in the gaming industry, with a new company and naturally, a new game in the works. His new company is called Panache Digital Games, based in Montreal, Canada. His new project is called "Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey" and is a third-person action-adventure survival game, which is intended to be episodic.

Players will be living through "the greatest moments of mankind with a documentary twist," according to the game's description on the website. Among the "moments" that the game will reportedly cover, according to the game's initial trailer are the following historic milestones in human evolution: Missing Link, First Tools, First Domestication, Out of Africa, Chauvet's Caves, Agricultural Revolution, Tartaria Tablets, Siddhartha Gautama, Fall of the Roman Empire, First Crusade, De analysi per aequationes numero terminorum infinitas, Charles Darwin's Birth, Human Population Reaches One Billion, Wright Brothers First Flight, Penicillin Discovery, Man on the Moon, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Dolly the Sheep and Human DNA Decoded.

The game has gotten the funding it needs to be developed. According to a report in Polygon, Desilets shared some details about the first chapters of the upcoming game. The first chapter will feature an orrorin, which Desilets describes as "our very first common ancestor. Not a chimp anymore; still not a human." The game will be presented "like a documentary," with a narrator and much like the BBC documentary "Planet Earth."

Given that his new company is quite small, he intends to work on the game one chapter at a time, and releasing a new chapter regularly. He has not indicated when the first chapter of the game will be released.