Working on a game fully within Apple’s ecosystem was a dream I finally realized with the port of a full Assassin’s Creed game to iOS.

When I first joined Ubisoft, I was handed the Anvil Mobile Team — a small, ragtag group assembled to answer a single question:

Could the massive, console-class Anvil engine run on Apple devices using only Metal?

There was no goal. No project. Very little support (the updates I provided on my team to the other Engine teams was often just a footnote in the bigger scheme of updates). Just a handful of us staring down an unknown future and a graphics stack designed entirely around DirectX. Apple doesn’t support DirectX or Vulkan at all — everything would have to run through Metal. That meant reworking the entire rendering pipeline, reimagining asset loading, and eventually rewriting parts of the engine itself.