Jade Raymond: It’s Time For Games To Grow Up

I have a lot of respect when it comes to the lovely Jade Raymond. She’s the Managing Director of Ubisoft Toronto, producer of Assassin’s Creed, and volunteer for LOVE. Not to mention she’s gorgeous. But recently she spoke about how she believes games can be a more inspirational form of art than they currently are and I agree with her.

“I really do feel it’s time for our medium to grow up. I think we don’t need to make the equivalent to a Michael Bay flick in order to sell five million copies. I think things can be exciting, have meaning and hit important topics, and I’m not the only one that thinks that.

There are major franchises trying to have more meaning and be something more interesting. We obviously tried a bit – and I hope it was obvious – to make a story with more meaning and mature themes in Assassin’s Creed.

It’s definitely something that we’re pushing for at Ubisoft Toronto. I think every other entertainment medium or art form does manage to have commercial success and have the viewers or audience think or be inspired.

Games, I think, have even more potential than that given that on top of the narrative side we do have all of the gameplay mechanics and we create rule sets from scratch which can have any kind of meaning embedded in them.

It’s not easy to do that, because it requires breaking our recipe and trying to find new recipes, but I think it’s an important thing for us to strive for.”

Source: GoNintendo