ETH GTC | Public talk by game developer legend Patrice Désilets

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

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?”