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French video game designer (born 1972)

Michel Ancel (French pronunciation:[miʃɛlɑ̃sɛl]; born 29 March 1972) is a retired Monégasque-French video game designer.

He is best known for creating the Rayman franchise and was the lead designer or director for several of the games, including Rayman Origins and its sequel Rayman Legends. He is also known for the critically acclaimed video game Beyond Good & Evil, as well as for King Kong, based on Peter Jackson's 2005 film of the same name.

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In 2017, he began work on Beyond Good and Evil 2, although he left the project in 2020.

Early life

Born in Monaco in 1972, Michel Ancel spent his early years traveling all around the world due to his father's military career.^[1] It was in Tunisia where he first discovered a video game console.

Since then, Ancel had been drafting game concepts while learning to program in his computer. At the age of 16, he dropped out of high-school in order to purs