Assassin’s Creed Creator Talks Life After Ubisoft, Again – Features – www.GameInformer.com

As Désilets started conceptualizing the next game in the series, Brotherhood, internal discussions brought up the idea of placing him in new role that would name him the creative director of the overall Assassin’s Creed brand. Désilets asked for more creative autonomy and economic incentive, which Ubisoft rejected. In May of 2010, he resigned from Ubisoft.

“I’d been working there 13 years in a row,” Désilets says. “Every single morning and night. I was there since day one of Ubisoft Montreal, when I was 23. When I woke up at 36, I was like, ‘Okay I’m not happy.'”

The realization sank in shortly after the birth of his second daughter. “Three days after Penelope’s birth, I was back at work doing a blueprint of Brotherhood,” Désilets says. “Four months after that I realized I had a second daughter I didn’t know at all. It’s funny, because I still feel like there is this gap between Penelope and I.”