Creative director Alex Amancio and level designer Bruno St-André would famously cite in interviews that it wasn’t worth doubling the production work and that it would take “more than 8,000 animations” to include a female protagonist alongside Arno Dorian ex-Ubisoft dev Jonathan Cooper would later call BS on that claim. Ubisoft didn’t so much have selective amnesia about Aveline’s existence as they wanted to reframe the reason for not including a playable female character as being too much trouble.
The company would conveniently forget about this when developing Unity two years later and come under criticism for not including even one female protagonist in a year where the industry was seeing mostly forward strides in diverse representation.īut perhaps I should rephrase that. 10 years ago today Ubisoft surmounted one of their greatest challenges in game development by animating a woman, Aveline de Grandpré, for the protagonist of Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, a PS Vita spin-off of Assassin’s Creed III.
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