We’re known for our consultancy and collaboration on Assassin’s Creed Mirage (Ubisoft, 2023) and its educational Codex feature, now freely available in Discovery Tour: Medieval Baghdad (Ubisoft, 2025). Media coverage and more on our work with Ubisoft in the client case study below.
Accurate, equitable historical and cultural representation in games matters. We help developers get it right.
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Interested in hiring support for your project? Request a consult call with Founding Director and Principal Consultant Dr Glaire Anderson
Expert Support for Games & Entertainment, GLAM, & Education
We are singularly well-placed to advise on any public-facing projects inspired by historical Islamic societies, globally. By providing an efficient route to specialist academic knowledge, we help clients avoid risk, inaccuracies and stereotypes, enhance their ability to create authentic, diverse worlds in the age of AI, and stand out from competitors in a competitive global sector.
Client Case Study
Follow the links below to learn more about our consultancy and collaboration on Assassin’s Creed Mirage (Ubisoft, 2023) and its educational Codex feature, the ‘History of Baghdad’.
The 'History of Baghdad' Codex feature is now freely available in Ubisoft’s Discovery Tour Medieval Baghdad (2025) mobile and web apps for ages 12+.
“The ‘History of Baghdad’ is our new historical codex feature – information that players can find in the world, telling them about the culture, tradition and daily life of 9th century Baghdad.
In addition to providing intensive seminars on medieval Islamic Art to the Ubisoft in-house history team, Glaire and her students contributed directly to this feature, reviewing texts written by our in-house historian Raphaël Weyland, and suggesting illustrations from museum collections.”
Creative Director for Assassin’s Creed Mirage at Ubisoft Bordeaux
“We’re very proud to have supported Glaire in her work on Assassin’s Creed Mirage. It’s a brilliant example of the knowledge and expertise our CAHSS academics can bring to a whole range of industry applications – from gaming to international law to sustainable finance.”
Edinburgh Innovations’ Head of Business Development for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
"Dr Anderson provided expertise on medieval Islamic history, art, architecture, archaeology and civilisation to Ubisoft’s in-house history team, and contributed to a new educational feature, ‘History of Baghdad’, which offers players an interactive way to learn more about the game’s rich setting."
University of Edinburgh
“I've taught approximately three or four thousand university students in the US and the UK about the architecture, art, and history of the caliphal period over the course of my career. That's ordinary impact. Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed games have introduced millions of players of all ages around the globe to medieval Islamic art, architecture, and history. That's extraordinary impact.”
Founding Director & Principal Consultant
With an experienced team and extensive network of collaborators and experts across the UK and around the globe, the Digital Lab offers services at all project stages, from planning to post-launch
Advising on historical architecture, technologies, figures and events over a range of historical time periods and geographical locations
Avoid risk, avoid inaccuracies. Historical authenticity and cultural sensitivity reviews to support accurate, respectful content
World building support for development teams, with validated historical inspiration
Interested in hiring support for your project? Request a consult call with Founding Director Dr. Glaire Anderson
“It was a pleasure working with Glaire and I strongly recommend her to game designers who wish to develop projects related to her academic expertise...Glaire’s expertise was crucial in two ways. On one side, Glaire ensured that our output [Lion Rampant: A Viking in the Sun] was historically as authentic as possible. On the other ...Glaire was absolutely fantastic in the way she contributed to brainstorms, in the way she provided suggestions, and the way she pointed to useful scholarship."
“Not only is Glaire a pleasure to sit down and talk with, she is a font of information about Islamic art and approaches her work with care. Glaire will give direct and honest feedback about various aspects of your project, along with actionable improvements (when requested and where needed). Glaire gave me insightful feedback on several public-facing texts for a forthcoming exhibition, helping me ensure that they were historically accurate and culturally sensitive. She also outlined resources I could consult for additional information. Since Islamic art is not my area of expertise, I was deeply grateful for her attention to detail and broad knowledge base.” (Heather Alexis Smith, Assistant Curator, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis)
"I contacted Dr Anderson when developing a display about Islamic science for a major exhibition. Being new to the topic, I sought her guidance on what I had devised, whether my interpretations were sound, my object selections appropriate, and what I had overlooked. Dr Anderson provided expert and accessible feedback, which I appreciated due to my unfamiliarity with the subject. Her assistance helped me to identify a key pairing of objects, which I am now negotiating to borrow for the show."
"Glaire Anderson’s expertise in Islamic art has been invaluable to me for my curatorial research on Arthur Melville, a Scottish artist who visited North Africa in the late nineteenth century. She was swift and efficient in checking the display label for historical accuracy and assisted me in using the correct terminology, suitable for a modern audience"
"Thank you! It felt like a really fruitful and useful conversation both in the context of the exhibition, and for ongoing relationships and thinking about our work as an organisation. Your contributions were fantastic in terms of taking us from research to broader thinking about the issues raised.”