I'm not pulling up my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for other drive to work at home edition.

So today we're talking Assassin's Creed and I had the lead designer Cory Owen with us to talk all about it.

Hey Corey. Hey Mark, how's it going? Okay, so let's go back to the very beginning. You were told you were going to lead the design for Assassin's Creed.

What is the first thing you did?

Oh, man.

Assassin's Creed, the first thing I did was look up how many games came out since I had last played in my childhood, essentially.

I had last played around Assassin's Creed Brotherhood,

which I believe was near the original trilogy.

And then since then, so many games up came out.

There was so much more content to, like, devour and learn and absorb.

So did you play a lot of Assassin's Creed in preparation?

I did. I got, like like four to six. I forgot how many.

I got a bunch of different titles from different eras to play a little bit of.

I think the games are, they're so expansive and so big that I didn't finish all of them.

I'm more like I started each of them

to explore what was, felt new, what was fresh, the core of the mechanics were essentially

played them for a few hours each and then started doing other research as well after I felt

like I could take away what I thought the main feel of the games were. Okay, so, you and I have talked about this, and you broke down the design into three qualities

that you thought were the essential qualities of Assassin's Creed.

So the three things you said, that Assassin's Creed are about assassins, about history,

and about movement or parkour.

So we're going to talk about each of the three of them today.

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