M.Iwiński (CDP co-owner) retrospective on the Witcher series history

[Ptosio]

Quite interesting. Apparently it was Matt Finley from Interplay/inexile himself who personally convinced them to start developing games.

It's also quite funny when he talk about how they first started making The Witcher simply as big RPG and Witcher fans who were full of ambitions but had no fucking clue about how does the game development process really works.
Apparently they still keep early design documents which describe "the best game evah" they were sure to bring into the market in less than a year. There was a lot of butthurt in the studio when they hit, well, some obstacles in their adventure and they had to strip the game off most of content as some of its creators really fell in love in what they'd made and did not want to let it go.

also how the big publishers hate the gamers and are in the constant fight to destroy videogaming and nice things

It's really quite a miracle on Vistula river they did not go bankrupt somewhere along the way.

 

[Immortal]

Quite interesting. Apparently it was Matt Finley from Interplay/inexile himself who personally convinced them to start developing games.

It's also quite funny when he talk about how they first started making The Witcher simply as big RPG and Witcher fans who were full of ambitions but had no fucking clue about how does the game development process really works.
Apparently they still keep early design documents which describe "the best game evah" they were sure to bring into the market in less than a year. There was a lot of butthurt in the studio when they hit, well, some obstacles in their adventure and they had to strip the game off most of content as some of its creators really fell in love in what they'd made and did not want to let it go.

also how the big publishers hate the gamers and are in the constant fight to destroy videogaming and nice things

It's really quite a miracle on Vistula river they did not go bankrupt somewhere along the way.

I do appreciate the summary and I definitely plan to watch this video.. but is there a transcription of the of Q&A that I can read as opposed to watch?

 

[Paul_cz]

That was awesome QA, Marcin is so likeable.

 

[Ptosio]

I'm afraid they're not gonna provide the transcriptions:/

But if you have time to watch/listen, you can check out other speeches and discussions. Not only from Polish developers but also the likes of ineXile or Obsidian.



Seeing Brian Fargo coming to Cracow as a guy who, well, also makes RPGs but hardly on a scale and budget of what is produced here locally feels kind of...weird, I have to say