Recreating the Viking World in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla

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🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Assassin's Creed: Valhalla has brought the Viking Age to life in stunning detail, and now the game is even being used as an educational tool!

Maxime Durand is World-Design Director at Ubisoft and the mind behind the hit franchise's Discovery Tour, which is a fun way to learn about history in the game's virtual world. Our very own Dr Cat Jarman acted as a historical consultant for the game, making sure it was as accurate as possible. In this episode she sits down with Maxime to discuss the value of historical gaming as an educator as well as a form of entertainment.

AC: Valhalla's latest update 'Dawn of Ragnarok' dropped just last week and is available on all major platforms!

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0:00.0	Have you ever wondered why one of Ruan Cathedral's towers is called the Tower of Butter, or what
0:06.2	animals have faced trials in courts for, or even how the black country got its name?
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0:34.9	Hello and welcome to Gone for Devil. I'm Dr. Cat Jarvan.
0:42.1	Are many people history is something you'll learn at school or in a museum,
0:46.8	read about in books or maybe get through one of your favourite podcasts? But for others,
0:52.4	history might be accessed in quite a different way. I'm talking about computer games and especially
0:59.5	the huge popularity of a historical gaming. But exactly what goes into these games?
1:05.6	How are the fictional words created and how much care if any at all do they take to represent
1:11.2	a historical period realistically? In this episode, we're going to be talking about one of the most
1:17.0	famous of them all, the Assassin's Creed franchise developed and created by Ubisoft.
1:22.5	Its latest version of the game that came out in 2020 is called AC Valhalla and is set in the Viking
1:29.1	age. Something that's unique about this particular game is that it also exists in a version
1:35.2	that aims to be educational, the Discovery Tour, where you both play the game but also learn
1:40.5	about the history behind it, as well as how the game was created in the first place.
1:45.6	I'm really delighted to have with me today to talk about this Maxine Durand, a historian who is
1:50.4	the world design director for Ubisoft's Discovery Tours. Maxine, thank you so much for joining us
1:56.4	on Gone with Evil today. Thanks for having me. It's a real pleasure. Great and I should just
2:00.8	for the record here say that I really didn't have work together in the past because I did actually work
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