Patrice Désilets’ New Indie Game’s All About Our Humanity

<p>Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed creator Patrice Désilets&&num;8217&semi; on-again&comma; off-again relationship with developer Ubisoft has spurred plenty of headlines throughout the past few years&comma; but now he&&num;8217&semi;s finally making new ones with in the indie space&period; Désilet&&num;8217&semi;s <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;assassins-creed-director-intent-new-aaa-game&sol;">promised us a new &&num;8220&semi;AAA&&num;8221&semi; game last winter<&sol;a> from his new team at Panache Games and it&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Ancestry&colon; The Humankind Odyssey&comma; <&sol;em>an episodic look at humanity&&num;8217&semi;s greatest hits&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Showing off the game at the Reboot Develop 2015 conference in Croatia today&comma; Désilet&&num;8217&semi;s shared a sweeping look at mankind&&num;8217&semi;s biggest accomplishments&colon; when we invented tools&comma; Darwin&&num;8217&semi;s birth&comma; the moon landings&comma; and a variety of other cool things we&&num;8217&semi;ve done as a species &lpar;skipping over all that Templar stuff&comma; of course&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;qhaSUZ142GQ<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>More details for the project are on the game&&num;8217&semi;s official website&comma; which reveals that Ancestors is a third-person &&num;8220&semi;action-adventure survival episodic&&num;8221&semi; game due this year&period; Players will relive these high points from our past&comma; but Panache warns that&comma; &&num;8220&semi;our civilization is one idea away from extinction or evolution&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s not known what systems <em>Ancestors<&sol;em> is being released for&comma; but the studio promised to reveal more later in the year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;panachedigitalgames&period;com&sol;&num;&excl;project&sol;c1atk">Panache Games<&sol;a> &amp&semi; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2015-04-23-assassins-creed-creator-patrice-desilets-announces-ancestors-the-humankind-odyssey">Eurogamer<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;