The Witcher 3 director explains why he had to leave CDPR to make the vampire RPG of his dreams

Konrad Tomaszkiewicz is best known as the director of The Witcher 3, and he also worked as co-director on Cyberpunk 2077 before leaving CDPR. The obvious question is: why would an established and proven director want to leave the place where he helped create such success?

Indeed, Rebel Wolves appears to carry a serious role-playing legacy with Conrad at his new studio Several more former CD Projekt developers joined, including game design director Daniel Sadowski, as well as creative director Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, both of whom worked on The Witcher.

Tomaszkiewicz is the game director for the new fantasy role-playing game Rebel Wolves, The Blood of Dawnwalker, which puts gamers in the shoes of Cohen, a half-human, half-vampire. In the story, Cohen fights a group of powerful vampires who have kidnapped his family and captured the entire valley of the Carpathian Mountains in which they live - the Sangor Valley.

It seems that the developers of Rebel Wolves are not going to stop there: the studio is committed to developing the RPG genre in some interesting ways, including a new "time as a resource" mechanic that ties each completed quest or task to the passage of time in a loop "day-night". This allows the game to take a "narrative sandbox" approach, where gamers shape their own story in the game, choosing which quests and tasks they will undertake (and which not, since they cannot do everything at the same time) in order to cope with the antagonists. vampires.