Blood, sweat and tears (Cyberpunk 2077)

The head of CD Projekt RED Marcin Iwinski talks about the development and the full announcement of the most ambitious project in the history of the Studio.




Ha E3 the developers Cyberpunk 2077 communicated c the press almost continuously: in the journalistic environment one of the main questions of the exhibition was "a you've seen Cyberpunk?". Went to regular employees, and management.

From the co-founder and Executive Director of CD Projekt RED Marcin Iwinski had time to give a detailed interview with GamesIndustry to talk about the development of Cyberpunk 2077. We have collected the most interesting moments of the conversation c Marcin.





About the presentation Cyberpunk 2077
"B this game invested a lot of blood, sweat and tears. This is very important — we can finally proudly show the world what they're actually working".

About modesty
"We need to stay humble". Developers must understand that to prove your worth you need to constantly, regardless of the success of the previous projects. "If we fail to keep promises and not live up to the hopes placed in Cyberpunk, everyone will be like: Hey guys, what's with you? You now suck?".

About moving forward
CD Projekt doesn't want to do endless sequels or games built on the same mechanics. "We want innovation, we want to raise the bar higher and higher. That is what we try to do that with Cyberpunk — and therefore takes a long time."





About five years of silence
The Studio had planned to work simultaneously on The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077, but not out — all power had to give to the Witch. The project tackled only after the release of add-ons for The Witcher 3.

About closed presentation
CD Projekt is going to move forward very cautiously, in small steps. That's why Cyberpunk 2077 was first shown to journalists — it was important to see the reaction of the small audience, and then gradually began to talk about the game.

About the public demonstration of gameplay
The developers feel a little guilty because they didn't show the fans gameplay. Will have to wait a bit: the public demonstration will hold when it's ready. B CD Projekt don't want to throw out for the fans, I y them.





About crunchy in the development of Cyberpunk 2077
Processing is a common problem in the industry. Game development is not a place where you can always work well 9 to 5: sometimes there are periods of time when you have to work overtime, tell about it to all beginners. Overtime hours are paid generously.

To create really new games without krana impossible — anyone who tells you otherwise, is either disingenuous, or know the secret, inaccessible Iwinski. C additions, or games based on the same technology all usually a little easier.

About the schedule
Demo was shown on PC. It is too early to say how the game will look on consoles, but on PC the picture is in the Cyberpunk 2077 in any case be the most advanced. The game is developed on a new version of the engine, the rendering system being finalized — maybe it is possible to squeeze out something else.

About the success of The Witcher 3
"The Witcher 3 clearly gave us to understand that we are on the right track and are doing everything correctly. Hence, we can move forward, to invest more resources and funds".




About the game in other people's universes
Neither the universe of the Witcher, nor the world Board game Cyberpunk 2020 does not impose on developers a special limitation: in both cases, they use the worlds as the Foundation and tell their own history.

About own universe
The Studio really wants to create some kind of own world. Universes The Witcher and Cyberpunk, CD Projekt gives a lot of opportunities, y developers have a lot of ideas.