Assassin's Creed: Building a Credible & Engaging World

A talk for Game Dev Happy Hour, a Hong Kong game-development community, at their October 2020 monthly. The subject: how Assassin's Creed builds worlds that read as credible, grounding every space in real history and culture, then layering gameplay on top without breaking either. Given during my Ubisoft Singapore years, with the franchise work to back it up.