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11 CommentsCD Projekt Red planning release of REDkit for modders and new games based on its brands
By Jenna Pitcher on Mar 22, 2013 03.22.13
The Witcher 3: The Hunt developer CD Projekt Red plans to expand to the U.S. in addition to releasing REDkit to modders and developing three smaller titles based on its brands, according to the company's four year strategy document. As outlined in the document, written in Polish, CD Projekt's strategy for the year of 2013 includes opening a marketing and PR branch in the U.S., and release an open beta of its REDkit editor and provide support to community development modders. For the period of 2014 to 2016, the developer plans to release two smaller "chart-topping quality titles supporting one of the product lines" of approximately 20 hours of gameplay each and a cross-platform game on mobile platforms based on one their brands. For the same period, the company plans to release The...
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6 CommentsCyberpunk 2077 will have 'multiplayer features,' says CD Projekt Red
By Alexa Ray Corriea on Mar 13, 2013 03.13.13
Futuristic role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077 will include "multiplayer features," developer CD Projekt Red has told Eurogamer. None of CD Projekt's Red's The Witcher games had multiplayer modes, and it is currently unknown if it will be included in upcoming title The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Studio managing director Adam Badowski confirmed with Eurogamer that current plans for Cyberpunk 2077 include multiplayer. "It will be a story-based RPG experience with amazing single-player playthroughs, but we're going to add multiplayer features," he said. Badowski said the game is still in the beginning stages of development, but the studio plans to eventually make the team working on Cyberpunk 2077 as big as that working on The Witcher 3. The team is "smaller right now" during the game's...
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37 CommentsCyberpunk 2077 characters may speak in multiple languages
By Samit Sarkar on Mar 01, 2013 03.01.13
Characters in Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red's upcoming science-fiction RPG, may speak in their native language, said lead writer Sebastian Stepien in an interview with Dubscore (translated by a user on the game's forums). Night City, the setting of Cyberpunk 2077, is an diverse metropolis, with people and languages from around the world. CD Projekt Red is considering recording every character's voice in their native tongue, and the player would have to buy a translation implant in order to understand them. "We're thinking about a system that could tell the world's story," said Stepien. "The idea is to record everything in original languages, i.e. if we'll meet Mexicans in the game, they'll be taking [sic] — Mexican slang even, portrayed by Mexican actors." The quality of the...
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17 CommentsCD Projekt Red announces REDengine 3, will be used to develop Cyberpunk 2077
By Alexa Ray Corriea on Feb 01, 2013 02.01.13
Polish developer CD Projekt Red unveiled the latest version of its in-house engine this morning, REDengine 3, crafted specifically for the development of role-playing games with open-world environments with non-linear storylines. In a press statement the company describes the engine as a "next-gen-ready solution" that will blur distinction between pre-rendered and real-time graphics. Color grading and lightning systems have been tweaked to make graphics look more true-to-life, and new animation systems for body movement and facial expression will broaden the range of emotions characters can convey. The engine uses an updated version of CD Projekt Red's REDkit editor, a toolset tailor-made for producing RPGs. The tool allows developers to build numerous quests in a branch-like pattern...
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14 CommentsCyberpunk 2077 staying true to its roots with printable character sheets, player choice
By Griffin McElroy on Jan 11, 2013 01.11.13
Fans of pen-and-paper role-playing games can be difficult to satisfy when it comes to the digital adaptations of those games; perhaps not unreasonably, given the gap between the improvised theatrics of the former and rigid, predetermined programming of the latter. CD Projekt Red, developers of The Witcher series — which itself had a tabletop RPG interpretation before becoming a video game — is taking the seriousness of this group's concern with its next title, Cyberpunk 2077. "The whole team are fans of the original system and have warm feelings for it," Cyberpunk 2077 lead writer Sebastian Stępień told Polygon in a recent interview. "We are aware of the large fanbase out there, too, so we have to keep them in mind. That's why we actually read the comments on our blog and forum....
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6 CommentsCD Projekt Red teases open-world 'other project' to be announced Feb. 5, possibly new Witcher title
By Griffin McElroy on Jan 10, 2013 01.10.13
Hidden within a few frames of the recently released debut trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 is a message to fans of the Polish video game developer, promising an upcoming reveal of its next project, an open-world game. The message, spotted by NeoGAF user EatChildren, gives some background into the development of Cyberpunk 2077, explaining what the game will be like, and why the company announced it so long before its intended release. Near the end of the Easter Egg, the message reads, "And that's not all that's new, we are about the reveal our other project which is much closer to being completed. And yes, it will also be a fully open-world game with an intense story. You can probably guess the game we're talking about. On the 5th of February it will be all clear." Rumors about The Witcher...
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9 CommentsAt CD Projekt Red, the development devil is in a game's many details
By Dave Tach on Dec 14, 2012 12.14.12
At CD Projekt Red, the Polish developer of the Witcher series of RPGs and the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077, development is all about sweating the details, and the studio is swimming in them, according to a post on the developer's blog by senior quest designer Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz. CD Projekt Red splits development responsibilities between two teams: story design and quest design. The former creates "the very foundations for the game that we all build upon." The latter operates "at the micro level of the storyline, thinking what solutions could and what solutions couldn't be implemented in game, what could work in quests and how to implement them in a way that will appeal to the players," according to Tomaszkiewicz. "Quest design work is a constant striving for perfection, and, being...
CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 sends Cyberpunk universe far into the future
By Michael McWhertor on Oct 18, 2012 10.18.12
The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red announced the final name of its Cyberpunk-inspired video game at a press conference in Warsaw, Poland today. The game will be titled Cyberpunk 2077, sending the sci-fi role-playing game franchise further into the future. CD Projekt Red says Cyberpunk 2077 will be an open world, sandbox-style game set in the "corrupt and tech-advanced world of the year 2077." The goal, the game's developers say, is to give players the freedom to explore the locations of Night City on their own terms. The game, which is still undated, promises advanced RPG mechanics based on the pen-and-paper role-playing game upgraded to match the 2077 setting. "We've always seen Cyberpunk as part of a continuum," said the original game's creator, Mike Pondsmith, who likened it to...
CD Projekt Red press conference to reveal 'Cyberpunk' details and more October 18th
By Griffin McElroy on Sep 25, 2012 09.25.12
CD Projekt Red, developer of the high fantasy Witcher series, will hold a press conference on October 18th, during which the studio will reveal the official title of its upcoming video game adaptation of the Cyberpunk pen-and-paper RPG franchise. The press conference was announced on the studio's official blog, which also promises that further details about the futuristic IP will be dropped as well. Other expected announcements include information on The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings OS X release, information on a "new operating system" for titles on the GOG.com distribution platform, as well as the opening of a "unique chance to get some of the greatest classic games ever made for a literally unbeatable price" on said store. The event will be streamed live on the company's Facebook...
'The Witcher 2' RedKit development tool could lead to 'Cyberpunk' mods
By Emily Gera on Aug 17, 2012 08.17.12
The in-development RedKit mod tool, created by The Witcher 2 developer CD Projekt RED could allow users to modify the studio's upcoming role-playing game Cyberpunk and even create their own titles from scratch. According to lead designer Marek Ziemak, despite the mod tool currently being developed for fans to create both simple and complex mods for The Witcher 2, the team is not opposed to the idea of allowing users to create "different stuff" as well. "We'd like people to create different stuff. Maybe not Witcher stuff. Maybe a cyberpunk game!" Ziemak laughed. RedKit will let users create "huge, visually stunning game worlds and complex engrossing stories" that can be easily developed and shared. Those using the tool will be able to toy with terrain, vegetation, camera angles, the...
