How the Opposite: 1999 workforce tailored for an Murderer’s Creed collab

• Opposite: 1999 developer Bluepoch teamed up with Ubisoft for an Murderer’s Creed crossover in two levels.
• The Murderer’s Creed franchise has offered greater than 230 million gadgets globally.

As time shuttle RPG Opposite: 1999 attracts nearer to its 2d international anniversary, Chinese language developer Bluepoch has spent the previous six weeks that includes its first crossover with any other sport IP.

A collaboration with Ubisoft noticed content material impressed by means of Murderer’s Creed II and Murderer’s Creed Odyssey land in-game, together with playable protagonist Ezio and more than one tale arcs.

It marked the primary time Opposite: 1999’s Chinese language and international variations had been synchronised, with the previous usually some months forward in updates and new characters. The replace additionally took the sport’s narrative out of doors of the 20 th century for the primary time.

To discover how Bluepoch got here to paintings with the world-renowned Murderer’s Creed franchise and the way the developer built-in characters like Ezio, Kassandra and Alexios into Opposite: 1999’s gameplay taste and global, we discuss with the dev workforce, who ask to stay nameless.

“This collaboration took place naturally from the best way our two sport worlds align,” says the developer. “Each Opposite: 1999 and Murderer’s Creed discover historical past in distinctive techniques. Murderer’s Creed’s ancient settings and mystical parts supplement Opposite: 1999’s personal sport global.”

Breaking all of the laws?

Opposite: 1999 teased the collaboration with Murderer’s Creed this January. The primary segment went survive August seventh, 2025 with the debut of Ezio in its gacha and a brand new tale match set in fifteenth century Renaissance Florence.

This offered Opposite: 1999 protagonist Vertin and pals to the area of Murderer’s Creed II, and broke clear of the sport’s twentieth century identification. It additionally reinforced day-to-day participant spending on Google Play and the App Retailer by means of 1,021% on replace day, as much as $744,000 by means of AppMagic estimates. The sport has made an estimated $134.9 million on cell so far.

The second one segment of the collab, which introduced on August twenty eighth and concluded on September nineteenth, took characters even additional again to historical Greece.

Avid gamers have in the past travelled to occasions just like the Wall Boulevard crash throughout the in-game phenomenon referred to as “the Typhoon” and feature encountered characters like soviet pilot Lilya and Nineteen Sixties pirate radio host Regulus.

In our final interview, the workforce attributed a part of Opposite: 1999’s good fortune to such “unconventional characters”.

Till this collaboration, time shuttle has all the time saved inside the twentieth century. The sport opens by means of travelling again from New Yr’s Eve, 1999. Now that travelling even additional again is within the playing cards, we ask whether or not this Murderer’s Creed crossover in fact suits with Opposite: 1999’s lore and branding.

The workforce confirms time shuttle in those Murderer’s Creed occasions used to be no longer attributed to the Typhoon: “This Murderer’s Creed collaboration does no longer depend at the Typhoon to shuttle via time as the primary tale does.

“Via the usage of the Degree within the Rain environment, we keep inside our present worldbuilding whilst permitting Opposite: 1999 characters to discover Renaissance Florence and historical Greece right through the Dionysia – each occasions wealthy in historical past and stuffed with Murderer’s Creed’s distinctive surroundings.”

This new type of time shuttle additionally assists in keeping the door open to long run occasions set in more than a few time classes, because the workforce teases “extra hidden tales and secrets and techniques are certain to look” at some point. In the meantime, the primary storyline continues to discover what precisely the Typhoon is.

The creed of collaboration

Ultimate 12 months, Bluepoch labored with Discovery to convey new outfits to Opposite: 1999 themed round Celtic mythology and Egyptian tradition, carried out to pre-established characters. The focal point used to be basically on garment designs and aimed to convey “real-world landscapes and cultural historical past” to the sport.

As for the Murderer’s Creed crossover, the workforce aimed for a “deeper connection”, crossing barriers between sport worlds and appearing characters from each franchises into the similar timeline.

“We imagine this collaboration brings one thing new and thrilling for lovers of each video games.”

This supposed reinterpreting characters like Ezio, Kassandra and Alexios in some way that blends with Opposite: 1999’s global whilst keeping up a powerful recognize for his or her unique paperwork. In relation to artwork design, this led to Ezio maintaining his vintage hood and hidden blade outfit, in addition to his iconic Altaïr outfit, however reimagined with Opposite: 1999’s color palette and artwork taste to suit the in-game global.

In the meantime, designing suitable abilities required the workforce to check the Murderer’s Creed video games and grasp “many rounds of debate”, adapting parts of Ubisoft’s real-time motion emblem into Opposite: 1999’s turn-based machine.

“All through all the procedure, we labored carefully with the Ubisoft workforce, adjusting each element via consistent comments. We’re really grateful for his or her agree with and make stronger all through this collaboration.

“After all, Ezio won a number one and secondary weapon machine, whilst Kassandra and Alexios saved their talent tree methods. Thru this, we are hoping avid gamers can sense the consideration and appreciation we now have for the unique video games.”

Over the process the development, avid gamers had been in a position to procure Ezio and Kassandra as playable characters throughout the in-game gacha. Alexios used to be to be had as a log-in praise with complete portraits to be had via participation in an in-game match.

This supposed all avid gamers may just ensure unlocking no less than one of the vital 3 crossover characters by means of enticing with the sport.

Now, the crossover has wrapped up only one month ahead of the worldwide model’s 2d anniversary. The Opposite: 1999 workforce teases “many paths to take and numerous moments to find” forward, however “received’t expose an excessive amount of” but.

“The adventure forward is also tough, nevertheless it holds nice promise. We will be able to stay operating laborious to create extra top of the range content material at some point.”

Be informed extra in regards to the Asia video games marketplace on the Pocket Gamer Connects Summit Korea on October thirty first, 2025.