Philippe Morin, David Chateauneuf and Hugo Dallaire were originally video game developers for Ubisoft Montreal and were hired in 1997–1998, with Chateauneuf working on Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, and Morin and Dallaire developing Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.[2] Morin left Ubisoft Montreal in 2009 and worked for EA Montreal in 2010 for an original intellectual property concept by Dallaire, but was cancelled within the same year.