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11 Career at Ubisoft
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33 Patrik Methe spent over 17 years at Ubisoft Montreal, working across three of the company's biggest franchises. He was Game Director on Far Cry 3, Far Cry 4, Far Cry 5, and Far Cry New Dawn. He also directed Rainbow Six: Extraction and worked as Game Designer on Splinter Cell: Conviction.
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55 Before entering game development, Methe owned a game store and was deeply involved in tabletop role-playing games, including Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer. That background in pen-and-paper worldbuilding shows up in how he talks about Project Windless.
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77 Founding KRAFTON Montreal
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99 Methe became KRAFTON Montreal's first employee in October 2022. He had spent eight months in discussions with KRAFTON before making the move from Ubisoft. The studio was officially announced in February 2023 as KRAFTON's first Canadian AAA game studio, with a target of 150 employees over three years.
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1111 The Montreal office assembled a senior team almost entirely from Ubisoft veterans:
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13-Benoit Frappier, ProducerFrederic Duroc, Game DirectorMartin Paradis, Technology DirectorIain McCaig, Design Director (Hollywood veteran who designed Darth Maul for Star Wars, with credits on The Avengers, Terminator, and Harry Potter)Son Kwangjae, Art Director
13+Benoit FrappierProducerFrederic DurocGame DirectorMartin ParadisTechnology DirectorIain McCaigDesign Director (Hollywood veteran who designed Darth Maul for Star Wars, with credits on The Avengers, Terminator, and Harry Potter)Son KwangjaeArt Director
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1515 Vision for Project Windless
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17-Methe has described Project Windless as a game where "legend is not something you observe, it is something you actively create through play." In the PlayStation Blog post accompanying the State of Play reveal, he wrote: "For us, that meant giving players real agency, not just in combat, but in how wars unfold, how alliances are formed, and how history is written."
17+Methe has described Project Windless as a game where "legend is not something you observe, it is something you actively create through play." In the post accompanying the State of Play reveal, he wrote: "For us, that meant giving players real agency, not just in combat, but in how wars unfold, how alliances are formed, and how history is written."
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1919 His design philosophy emphasizes minimal hand-holding, organic exploration without glowing trails or cluttered HUDs, and a world that feels like it belongs to the player rather than the developers.