Jade Raymond
Jade Raymond (born August 28, 1975 in Montreal ) is a Canadian video game producer, known among other things for the production of the first title in the Assassin's Creed series .
biography
Raymond studied computer science at McGill University . After working for Sony and Maxis in San Francisco and New York, among others , she returned to Montreal for a job at Ubisoft .
At the Game Developer Awards 2003 Raymond received an offer for a job in the video game-related TV show The Electric Playground of the US channel G4 . She became known outside of the gaming scene through her international promotional tour for Assassin's Creed . After experiencing massive attacks on the Internet as a woman in a senior position in video game development, Raymond pulled out of the public eye for the production of Assassin's Creed II .
She founded the Ubisoft Toronto studio and headed it from 2009. In October 2014, she left Ubisoft after 10 years of employment. In an interview, she announced that she would not go public with new plans until summer 2015 at the earliest.
In July 2015, Raymond announced that she would take over the management of Motive Studios in Montreal - a subsidiary of Electronic Arts - and develop Star Wars games together with Visceral Games and game developer Amy Hennig.
She has been head of Google's gaming department since 2019.
Games
Sony Online Entertainment
- Jeopardy (programmer)
- Trivial Pursuit (programmer)
Electronic Arts
- The Sims Online (2002) (producer)
- Star Wars: Battlefront II (2017) (Producer)
Ubisoft
- Assassin's Creed (2007) (producer from 2004 to 2007)
- Assassin's Creed II (2009) ( Executive Producer from 2008 to 2009)
- Watch Dogs (2014) (Executive Producer from 2008 to 2009)
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist (2013) (Executive Producer from 2010 to 2013)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.g4tv.com/electricplayground/features/51427/Jade_Raymond_QA.html
- ^ Spiegel Online of October 29, 2007
- ↑ a b c edge-online.com ( Memento from July 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ): People: Jade Raymond , May 11, 2012 (English, accessed October 20, 2014)
- ↑ a b c d e Ubisoft Toronto founder Jade Raymond leaves company ( Memento from October 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), October 20, 2014 (English, accessed October 20, 2014)
- ↑ Interview on Polygon.com from February 2015. Accessed April 10, 2015 .
- ^ Brian Crecente: Former Ubisoft studio head Jade Raymond opens EA studio in Montreal . July 13, 2015. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
- ^ Jade Raymond: Motive Studios: Motive, Means And Opportunity . Electronic Arts . Retrieved July 13, 2015.
- ^ Project Yeti & Project Stream: Game veteran Jade Raymond will lead Google's new gaming division . googlewatchblog.de. March 13, 2019. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
- ↑ Interview with Jade Raymond on Xbox Gazette
Web links
- Jade Raymond in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raymond, Jade |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian video game producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal |