When an invitation to work on Assassin’s Creed Shadows first dropped into Sachi Schmidt-Hori’s email inbox, the Ivy League professor deleted it without a second thought. She’d never heard of the franchise before, nor Ubisoft – the company that was now keen to secure her services. And so when another email arrived, asking for a second time if she would like to lend her expertise to Shadows’ development, Schmidt-Hori deleted the request once more, continuing to believe it was spam.
