{"id":13064,"date":"2015-09-22T12:06:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=13064"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:47:00","slug":"from-dreams-to-realities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/shannon-lecture\/from-dreams-to-realities\/","title":{"rendered":"From Dreams to Realities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        From Dreams to Realities\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h2 id=\"from-dreams-to-realities-performing-history-in-the-assassins-creed-video-game-series\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">From Dreams to Realities: Performing History in the Assassin&#8217;s Creed\u00ae&nbsp;video game series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Maxime Durand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Ubisoft, Montreal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">1:30 PM, Friday, October 23, 2015, Multi-Media Lab, Discovery Centre, MacOdrum Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"abstract\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The past is a puzzle for&nbsp;which we lack&nbsp;most of the pieces and don&#8217;t have&nbsp;the cover art. Yet, the teams working on Assassin\u2019s Creed have mastered a unique method to interpret it through breathtaking digital environments. From assumed inaccuracies to unnoticeable historical details, the procedure is complex but rewarding with tens of millions of fans. This lecture will discuss the methods applied at Ubisoft and how we address the issues of recreating the past in a world leading digital gaming environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/MaximeDurand-240x360.jpeg\" alt=\"Maxime Durand\" class=\"wp-image-13060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/MaximeDurand-240x360.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/MaximeDurand-160x240.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/MaximeDurand-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/MaximeDurand-400x600.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/MaximeDurand-360x540.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"biography\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Maxime Durand is the Assassin\u2019s Creed franchise historian since 2010, weeks after graduating from Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. Yes! A history grad who works with his diploma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Shannon Lectures in History 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Dreams to Realities: Performing History in the Assassin&#8217;s Creed\u00ae&nbsp;video game series Maxime Durand Ubisoft, Montreal 1:30 PM, Friday, October 23, 2015, Multi-Media Lab, Discovery Centre, MacOdrum Library Abstract The past is a puzzle for&nbsp;which we lack&nbsp;most of the pieces and don&#8217;t have&nbsp;the cover art. Yet, the teams working on Assassin\u2019s Creed have mastered a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":58,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[303],"class_list":["post-13064","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cu_page_type-general"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13066,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13064\/revisions\/13066"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=13064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}