Ubisoft has appointed sport designer Katie Scott as vp of editorial.
Based in Vancouver, Scott is the most recent addition to Ubisoft’s international inventive workplace, which launched in October 2022.
In her new function, Scott will probably be answerable for making certain alignment between Ubisoft’s worldwide manufacturing groups and its general editorial technique.
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During her decade-long profession within the business, Scott was most lately sport design director on the Gears of War universe at Xbox studio The Coalition.
Prior to that, she labored in sport design at Electronic Arts, the place she contributed to 4 FIFA video games.
“A passionate range and inclusion advocate within the online game business, Katie has over the course of her profession designed and applied a wide range of initiatives, comparable to a framework to assist manufacturing groups guarantee significant illustration of their video games,” mentioned Ubisoft. “She additionally acted as The Coalition Studio’s Accessibility Champion.”
Scott commented: “I’m excited to hitch Ubisoft and collaborate with its proficient, worldwide groups to construct memorable experiences that convey collectively gamers from all over the world.
“Ubisoft’s manufacturers are a number of the most beloved within the business, and I look ahead to working with our manufacturing groups to assist form the inventive imaginative and prescient behind them.”
Ubisoft’s senior VP of studio operations, Marie-Sophie de Waubert, mentioned of Scott’s appointment: “I’m assured that as a member of the Global Creative Office, she’s going to empower our manufacturing groups to co-build Ubisoft’s inventive imaginative and prescient throughout our portfolio, and assist us proceed to develop inclusive titles that gamers from each stroll of life can take pleasure in.”
In January, it was introduced that former Dead Island 2 design director Bernd Diemer had additionally joined Ubisoft as an editorial VP.
Diemer, who has beforehand labored on Crysis, Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Battlefield V, and Horizon: Zero Dawn as each a inventive director and sport designer, will primarily give attention to in-game social experiences for Ubisoft’s service video games.
