Ubisoft Presentation

I have just returned from the Ubisoft presentation. It was cool. We had around 90 people that I could see crammed into a room designed for a few less! There were several people from Ubisoft there, Khatie, Patrick, Mary and Geneveive. The presentation was run mostly by Patrick. He is (among other things) the Lead Game Designer. He ran the computer while the others cringed as he began to tell us things that he should not have because he was so excited to show us stuff.

They passed around a notebook with some early concept art, a lot of which (unfortunately) didn't make it into the final game. It included machinery, scenes and buildings. They showed a clip that they had showed to Peter Gabriel while trying to get him interested in doing a song for the game. After watching the clip, Peter Gabriel agreed to do the song, and a little more (apparently a voiceover of some kind (not a live-action character though)).

During the end of the presentation it moved into a more question and answer session. It was at this point that I realized that I was sitting between 3 of the Ubisoft people. It felt like I was part of the Ubisoft team. After several questions I decided to move to an empty seat so I was out of the spotlight! Devonette told me afterwards that someone watching on the web-cam asked if the bearded guy up with the Ubisoft guys (me) was Rand Miller! NOT!

Well, off to get ready for this evenings presentations.

- devon