There is a setting that was born in November 2007, it as the very first Assassins Creed. After that we got more and more, some were really good, some were bad and some were flawed to the maximum extent. So as I was contemplating a few things, my mind went back to those ‘golden days’. Not everyone was a fan, but the simple setting was that this IP was novel, innovative and it has been keeping fans going for nearly 20 years over several platforms and also over a few generations.
As I was contemplating a few thoughts I redesigned it into a new game with several new iterations. I made new IP from this.
INTRO
The setting is 1096, the crusades had just begun and the Battle of Civetot was in near full swing. On a morning a commander was testing its Ballista a dat from the battlements of Nicaea, the commander was not taking chances as this was a new crew. For nearly two days these troops were mangled and tested to the max until the commander was ready. He ten ordered 50 troops to load up seven oxcarts with boulders to take to the front. There should be enough boulders around, but the tactic to blow opposition away with overkill giving them no time to react was his preferred method and as such the Siege of Nicaea was about to commence.
Unknown to anyone his test builders had a more profound impact. They hit a cave where a prisoner was kept. As the boulders hit the roof of the cave, the cave started to collapse in places and the prison was disjointed. Soon there would be no escape, the Black King had been released.
INTRO 2
As the Black King was released, he crawled out of his prison, He might be immortal, but after being imprisoned for nearly a thousand years without sustenance the Black King was as damaged as he had ever been in thousands of years. He slowly crawled like a snail over the cave floor. He then saw a light coming in from the ceiling. It was the sun that came through and as he felt the sunlight hit his skin, he was revitalizing to some effect. He was a long way from being better, but this was the best he had felt in over a century. He let the sun caress him and it took hours before the darkness set in. He then moved to the open air and more energy came to him, still slow to react to anything, he decided to stay out of sight until he felt more and more alert. It was the next day when the noises of battle came to him, they were far away and that was OK. Where there were battles, there were should to collect and there was the option of control of others.
As he slowly gained some powers, he saw a lone soul, but not something he had ever seen before. Did he remain unaware of so much change? He saw a rat and he possessed the rat and took the route towards the person sitting on a stone. As he closed in of that person, he felt the invigorating power of fear, he had never face a man so fearful before and it gave him energy, he was careful not to face the man as he was unaware how quickly the rat could be killed, so he observed from a distance. /he started to hear the voices in that mans head. And an unknown language came to him. He had heard that language before in Egypt in the time of the Roman general Marcus Antonius. He knew that language, but there was a second language he had never heard before. As such he had to learn what this man was.
That is how the game begins. You are the Black King, rejuvenating himself and as you become his servant you get more powers and more abilities. The fortress of Nicaea where you become a cook. You get to do chores, all whilst serving the Black King.
Now consider how the setting changes. You can be killed and when it is done in a later stage you get to inhabit another person, if too early you have to start from scratch. It will be (for the most) pure stealth. This game doesn’t have ‘viewpoints’ rather a setting where you can map at any given place at any time, when you get higher, you get a much better setting of what you can see. In addition, when yup learn how to possess birds they will bring you the layout of your lands. And that is where the plot changes. You get to see acts of violence, acts of crimes and you observe it all, more important you get to see it all and as you observe, you get to find clues about these new people. The game starts with observation which will leads to more powers and soon you will see the options to observe people from different points. Horses, dogs, wildlife. They all have a point of view and they care to the needs of the Black King and that is to provide sustenance. A simple setting from 2007, now with a much larger scope. You get to see the powers of the people and what they destroyed. From the Siege at Nicaea you will go to the foundations of Jerusalem where the actual game begins. The game is set on displaying what happened and the lore of the Back king. This is how far I got in a few hours. Perhaps Tencent can use this (they pretty much own Ubisoft now).
Have a great Sunday to the west of me, your almost at the foot of Monday.
Ubisoft, Tencent, Assassins Creed, Black King, Al-Malik al-Aswad, Nicaea, Jerusalem,
