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Working in the Shadows: how an Assassin's Creed researcher braved the backlash
A researcher who worked on Assassin's Creed Shadows reveals how she contacted the online trolls targeting her with abuse, with surprising results.
Impressed with Schmidt-Hori's knowledge, Ubisoft soon invited her to work more closely alongside Shadows' writing team, analysing the game's script for historical inaccuracies and inconsistencies, as well as anything that could be deemed culturally insensitive. But while an expert on the subject matter, Schmidt-Hori had not worked on anything like Assassin's Creed before, and says it took time for her to find her groove providing assurances of historical authenticity in a game where players can also run around like ninjas and leap hundreds of metres into hay bales. Schmidt-Hori's day job as a university lecturer, as well as her status as a published author, meant that much of her life was in the public sphere and easy to find, as Shadows became a lightning rod for those with an axe to grind over how they saw the game handling its Japanese setting and choice of protagonists.
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