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The Original Assassin's Creed Wasn't Supposed to Have Side Missions, Says the AI Designer

The developers behind Assassin's Creed added all the side missions to the game in 5 days because the CEO's kid had felt the game was boring.

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While replying to a tweet that was asked people to tell a horror story about their jobs in five words, Charles Randall, the lead AI designer behind the first Assassin’s Creed title, started to explain the real story behind the addition of side missions to the game. As he describes, Assassin’s Creed wasn’t supposed to have side missions at first. When the game was ready to launch, the CEO’s kid got to play it but didn’t seem satisfied since he felt it was boring and there was nothing to do in the game. As a result, Randall’s lead suggested that he add some bug-free side missions to the game, and they had only five days to do it.

Randall teamed up with 4 or 5 of other employees in the studio, while no one was allowed to enter their workspace for five days. After the deadline ended, the game was ready to launch with side missions, which were almost bug-free. However, as Randall explains, there were a few game-breaking bugs in side missions that would make it tough to reach the highest gamerscore. One of the bugs, which was related to the assassination of Templars, wouldn’t allow you to kill one of them since the object for that Templar was parented to a wrong group. That said, if you attempted to restart the game, the Templar was gone and dead.

 

[Nankatsu]

Made a topic about it during the afternoon

The first Assassin's Creed game only had side missions because "the CEO's kid played it"

That's the start of the wild story behind the addition of side missions to the 2007 game, as told by then Ubisoft fight system AI lead Charles Randall in a fascinating Twitter thread. Original source Pretty surreal if you ask me.

www.neogaf.com

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Made a topic about it during the afternoon

The first Assassin's Creed game only had side missions because "the CEO's kid played it"

That's the start of the wild story behind the addition of side missions to the 2007 game, as told by then Ubisoft fight system AI lead Charles Randall in a fascinating Twitter thread. Original source Pretty surreal if you ask me.

www.neogaf.com

The difference between ’ and ' In the search bar kills me

 

[Spukc]

no surprises there ubiwank

 

[Bonfires Down]

Ah, the beginning of Ubipadding.

Still, as repetitive as the side missions are, it's insane that they managed to implement them in five days. Did I really understand that right?

 

[Ovek]

To be fair on the kid Ass Creed would have been boring with no side content.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Assassins Creed doesn't miss it's original format it was decent than and sensational now.