architects Shine New Light on Assassin's Creed Unity
We were commissioned by Ubisoft, creators of the Assassin’s Creed game series to create an architectural model exploring the city of Paris in Assassin’s Creed Unity.
The model, drawing on research from our chapter examining the game in Videogame Atlas, reimagines the city as a landscape of parkour surfaces traversed by the player, demonstrating how walls, chimneys and roofs become the new thoroughfares of Paris.
Through gameplay analysis, and screenshot recording, we recreated a journey through Paris that becomes progressively abstracted the further it is away from the player’s attention, demonstrating a city experienced at speed.
This culminates at the Bourse De Commerce, representing a junction point between the contemporary city and the historic, virtual one.
The model was presented at the Pinault Collection, Bourse De Commerce, as part of Ubisoft’s film, ‘Architects Shine New Light on Assassin’s Creed Unity’
YouTube video by Ubisoft