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Ubisoft Has Worked On An Assassins Creed VR Escape Room

Published Tue, 07 Feb 2017 13:45:11 -0600

According to VG24/7, Ubisoft and students at NHTV in the Netherlands have collaborated on an Assassin's Creed VR title called Da Vinci's Workshop. The game itself is a co-operative escape room where players have to solve puzzles in Leonardo's workshop in order to uncover a piece of Eden.

Lead designer Tim van Kan explicitly states on his website that "there is no plan for game to be commercially released or released at all." Since there are no plans to release Da Vinci's Workshop, this could be a sign that the company is looking to expand its major titles into VR with very little effort on their part. That, or they're just going to tote it around at trade shows.

All Games Delta uncovered some design work for the project on the web site for a UI/UX designer from Ubisoft Paris that included screenshots of the title screen, icons, and the main menu which give a small glimpse into what the UI looks like.

The project was built on the Unreal 4 engine and designed with the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive in mind, which makes sense given Ubisoft's stated desire to unite all three VR headsets with cross-platform support.

This isn't Ubisoft's first jump into VR (everyone remembers Werewolves Within and Eagle Flight, right?), but it is the first time one of the publisher's major titles took the jump. Honestly, seeing the trailer for Eagle Flight, I always thought it was essentially an Assassin's Creed mini-game. But that's just me trying to connect one group of eagles to another game featuring eagles.

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