Assassin’s Creed: Origins was finally announced last weekend, and since then, we’ve learned a lot about the game’s new world set in Ancient Egypt, its revamped combat system, and its array of collector’s editions. Today, game director Ashraf Ismail said that there’s still a mystery left to solve, and it’s hidden in a cryptic image of hieroglyphics.
In the press kit Ubisoft provided to GameSpot, there’s an image of a wall of hieroglyphics that also appeared in the publisher’s press conference. It seems like simply a logo image on face, but Ismail told GameSpot today that the hieroglyphics actually convey a message.
“It’s not just a setting for us, we take pride in representing things properly in a game form,” he said. “So there are a lot of references to actual historic stuff. You know, the hieroglyphs, it’s not just art on a wall; they actually say stuff. You know that giant mural behind me yesterday when I was doing the conference? There’s a meaning there.”
Unfortunately, and despite my best efforts–that is, spending too much time perusing the Wikipedia page on hieroglyphics–I haven’t been able to translate it yet. No one else at GameSpot is well-versed in hieroglyphics, so we’ve decided to post about it and let the public take a crack at it. You can see the image at the bottom of this article.
Origins launches on October 27 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and you can watch a lengthy gameplay demo of it here. You can also read our hands-on impressions of the game here.
The image: