Jean Guesdon

Jean Guesdon was the Assassin's Creed Brand Content Manager at Ubisoft Montreal as well as the Creative Director for Assassin's Creed: Origins and Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. As a Brand Content Manager, Guesdon was responsible for the Assassin's Creed franchise, and helped to ensure that all Assassin's Creed installments were in line with the core Assassin's Creed story.
==Biography==
===Early career===
Jean Guesdon started his career in the traditional business of toys. He later join Ubisoft Montreal in 2005 and eventually rose to the position of Production Coordinator.					
===Assassin's Creed===
In an October 2017 interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Guesdon revealed that due the setting of Assassin's Creed: Origins being Ancient Egypt, it led to them designing the entire country for players to explore a totally seamless game world for full immersion. The game mechanics behind Bayek's eagle, Senu, was partly inspired by the drone feature in the games, and then expanded upon. Guesdon stated that the new RPG-format of Assassin's Creed games was a necessary change to the formula and encouraged players to shape their own play style.
Guesdon was heavily involved in the early-development stage of the Discovery Tour educational game mode, especially in its conception. First broaching the idea at the end 2014 after Assassin's Creed: Unity was released. Discovery Tour was later implemented in Origins in a February 2018 update and continued in subsequent releases.
At the 2018 Game Developers Conference, as part of the "10 Years of Evolution of the Assassin's Creed Brand" talk, Guesdon revealed that due to being rushed at developing Unity was the reason behind its poor reception. Thusly, the poor reception of Unity then affected the next title Assassin's Creed: Syndicate the following year. Guesdon was part of the decision to allow more development time between titles, leading to Assassin's Creed: Origins releasing two years after Syndicate and more than doubling sales. Also included in this lecture was Guesdon explaining how Ubisoft was able to create as many Assassin's Creed games as they had by splitting the work between different rotating teams.
On 10 February 2023, Guesdon announced via his personal LinkedIn page that he would be leaving Ubisoft after 17 years with the company.
==Assassin's Creed credits==
*Assassin's Creed (2007) – Production Coordinator
*Assassin's Creed II (2009) – Game Designer
*Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy (2010)
*Assassin's Creed: Ascendance (2010) – Writer
*Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (2010) – Brand Creative Director Assistant
*Assassin's Creed: Revelations (2011) – Brand Content Director, Writer
**The Lost Archive (2012) – Brand Content Director, Writer
*Assassin's Creed: Recollection (2012) – Brand Content Director
*Assassin's Creed III (2012) – Brand Content Director
*Assassin's Creed III: Liberation (2012) – Brand Content Director
*Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013) – Creative Director, Writer
*Assassin's Creed: Rogue (2014) – Brand Content Director
*Assassin's Creed: Unity (2014) – Brand Content Director
**Dead Kings (2015) – Brand Content Director
*Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (2015) – Brand Content Director
**Jack the Ripper (2015) – Brand Content Director
*Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China (2016) – Brand Content Director
*Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India (2016) – Brand Content Director
*Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia (2016) – Brand Content Director
*Assassin's Creed: Origins (2017) - Creative Director, Writer
*Assassin's Creed: Rogue Remastered (2018) – Brand Content Director
==External links==
*Jean Guesdon's professional profile on LinkedIn.
==References==
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