Assassin’s Creed creator announces new game

Patrice Désilets, the man employed by Ubisoft who once conceived the concept of the Assassin’s Creed series, announces the first game from his new studio Panache Digital Games. The game will be called Ancestors : the Humankind Odyssey and will be delivered in episodes.

Panache Digital Games does not reveal much about Ancestors: the Humankind Odyssey in the announcement. It will be a third person action adventure survival game. The studio wants to split the game into several episodes. In the game, the Canadian studio wants to show ‘the greatest moments in human history’. The series should feel like a documentary, the developer says. Panache will not announce when the first episode will be released and for which platforms.

Panache Digital Games is a small studio founded by Patrice Désilets. He is best known for his work for publisher Ubisoft. During his time at the French publisher, he conceived the concept for the first Assassin’s Creed games. As the creative director of Ubisoft’s Canadian studio, he headed the team that worked on Assassin’s Creed and Assassin’s Creed II. He also experienced the largest part of the development of the successor Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. Désilets then left to start a new studio under the banner of publisher THQ. However, when THQ went bankrupt, Ubisoft bought the studio that Désilets was in charge of and so he was re-employed by his old employer. His second tenure was short-lived; after two months, Désilets had already left, to try again with Panache Digital Games.