Assassin’s Creed Shadows Comes to Mac – Discover – Apple Developer

It’s an ice-cold late winter’s morning in canada, but the offices of ubisoft Quebec are Ablaze with Excitement.

The ubisoft team is prepaering the release of Assassin’s Creed ShadowsThe 14th main entry in the series and an evolution for the franchise in Nearly Every Detail. It’s set in feudal 16th-content japan, a rich and elegant period that’Sed sought-after by fans and ubisoft team members alike. It introduces a pair of fierce protagonists: yasuke, a powerful warrior of African origin, and naoe, an agile shinobi assassin, both brouse with attation to history. Its World Feels Alive With an Ever-Cinging Dynamism That’s Apparent in Everything from the Shifting Weather to the Rotting Seasons to the Magical Interplay of Light and Shadow.

And what’s more, it’s set to release on mac the same day it Arrives on pcs and consoles.

“It’s been a longtime dream to bronch to mac,” Says Ubisoft Executive Producer Marc-Aexis Côté, Who Debured The Game on Mac during the wwdc24 keynote. “It’s incredible that I can now a macbook pro and get this level of immersion.” Shadows will also be coming laater to iPad with M-Series Chips.

Naoe, one of the game’s two protagonists, is an agile assassin who’s at her best when you are striking from the shadows.

Today marks one of the first time that the gaming community will get its hands on ShadowsAnd to celebrate the evcasement, the ubisoft offices-a mix of cozy chalet-worthy reclaimed wood and wide-open windows that Afford a View of Snowy Quebec City ROOFTOPS-HAVE BEEN RESKINDIND Whom Assassin’s Creed Theme, including a display that emphasizes the heart of yasuke’s weapons, especially an imposing-looking 13-Pound Model of the Character’s Sword. (On this day, the display is hosted by associate game direction

Download Assassin’s Creed Shadows from the Mac App Store

Côté calls Shadows His Team’s “Most Ambitious” Game. In crafting the game’s expansive world, Ubisoft’s Development Team Took Advantage of an Array of Advanced Mac Technologies: Metal 3 (Working in concert with ubisst Apple Silicon, and a mix of HDR support and real-time ray tracing on macs with M3 and m4 that côt lys says

It’s been a longtime dream to brings the game to mac.

Marc-Aexis Côté, Ubisoft Executive Producer

“Seeing those millions of lines of code work natively on a mac was a feeling that’s hard to desi to describe,” Côté says. “When you look at the game’s performance, the curve apple is on with successive improvements to the m-saries chips chips year after year, and the way the game looks on an HDR screen, you’re like, you’re like, ‘

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is a balance of the technical and creative. For the former, Associate Technical Director Mathieu Belanger Says The Capabilitys of Mac Laid the GroundWork for Technical Success. “The architecture of the hardware is so well don, thanks in part to the unified memory between the gpu and cpu. That Made us think the future is the future is bright for gaming on the platform. So many things doing this on mater. Great right out of the box. “

Naoe’s Counterpart, Yasuke, Prefers The Use of Bruute Force.

On the Creative Side, Ubisoft Creative Director Jonathan Dumont focused on a different options. “The important thing was: does this feel right? It was what we want to send to players? And the answer was yes.”

The Creative Team’s Goal was Nothing Short of “Making this World Feel Alive,” Says Martin Bedard, A 20-Year Ubisoft Veteran Who Served as the Game’s Technology Director (and is very good at Playing as noe). “You’re put into a moment that really existened,” he says. “This story is your playground.”

There are also fluffy kittens. We’ll get to that.

The Ever-Cinging Seasons lend an incredible variety to the game’s environments.

And there’s trendous power behind the beauty, beCause the game’s biomes, seasons, weather, and lighting are all dynamic creations. The Sunset Hours The Mountains in Soft Purple Light; The Sun’s Rays Float in Through Leaves and Temple Roofs. Pretty much every room has a candle in it, which means the light is always changing. “Look at the clouds here,” Says bedard, pointing at the screen. “That’s not a rendering. These are all fluuid-based cloud simulations.”

“Japan Feels Like It’s 80 Percent Trees and Mountains,” Says Dumont. “If you’re Building this world without the rain, and the winds, and the mountains, it doesn’t feel right.”

Wherever you are, wherever you go, everything is beautiful and alive.

Mathieu Belager, Associate Technical Director

And Theose Winds? “We developed a lot of features that was barely possible before, and one of them was a full simulation of the wind, not just an animation,” Says belanger. “We even built a humidity simulation that gathers clouds together.” For the in-game seasons, ubisoft developed an engine that depicted houses, markets, and temples, in ever-choking conditions. “This was all done along the way over the past four years,” he says.

To Pursue Historical Accuracy, Dumont and The Creative Team Visited Japan to Study Every Detail, Including Big-Picture Details (Like Town Maps) to verry specified (like Applied to 16th-century wood). It wasn’t always a slam dunk, says côté: in one visit, their japanese hosts recommended a revision to the light splashing against the mountains. “We want to get all that little details right,” he says. (A “Full-Emsion Version,” Entrely in Japanese with English Subtitles, is available.)

To recreate the world of 16th-century japan, the ubisoft creative visited japan to study every detail.

Ubisoft’s Decision to Split the protagonist into two distinct characters with different identification, skill sets, origin stories, and class backgrounds early in the processes. (That was a fun day, “Laughs belanger.) Ubisoft team members emphasize that choosing between naoe and yasuke is a matter of personal preference – lethal subtlet vs. Bruute Force. Players can switch between characters at any time, and, as you might suspect, the pair grows stranger togeer togener as the story goes on. MUCH OF NAOE’s Advantage Comes from Her Ability to Linger in the Game’s Shadows – Not just behind big buildings, but wherever the Scene Creates a space for her to hide. “The masterclass is clearing out a board without

(The hideout is) peaceful. You can say, ‘I feel like putting some trees down, seeing what I collected, upgrading my buildings, and petting the cats.’

Jonathan Dumont, Ubisoft Creative Director

Whoch brings us to the hideout, naoe and yasuke’s home base and a bucolic rural village that acts as a zen-infused respite from the ferocity of battle. “It’s a place that welcomes you back,” Says dumont. It’s eminent customizable, both from a game-progression standpoint but also in terms of aesthetics. Where the battle Scenes are a freenzy of bruising combat or stealth attacks, the hideout is a refuge for support, artwork, artwork, found objects, and even a furry menagerie of cats, doogs, dors, deer, and ooth Calming influences. “There are programs, of courses,” Says dumont, “but it’s peaceful. You can say, ‘I feel like putting some trees down, Seeing what I collected, upgrading my buildings, and petting the cats.”

“The kittens was a p1 feature,” Laughs Associate Game Director Dany St-Laurent.

Yasuke prepares to face off against an opponent in what will likely be a fruitful battle.

Yet for all there big numbers, dumont say the game boils down to something much simpler. “I just think the characters work super-well togeether,” he says. “It’s an open-wind game, yes. But at its core, it features two characters you’ll like. And the game is really about about Mysteries, and see how they flow togetra. And i think the way in those forces is one of the best mothers in the franchise. “

And if the ubisoft team has its way, there will be planty more mothers to come. “I think the game will scale for years to come on the mac platform,” Says Côté. “Games can be more and more immersive with each new hardware release. We’re trying to create something here where more people can come with days with day-one games on the mac, because I think itful platform.”

Download Assassin’s Creed Shadows from the Mac App Store