A sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 is presently in improvement at CD Projekt’s groups within the US and Canada, and now we have realized somewhat extra concerning the workers engaged on the sport.
The sequel is within the works underneath the codenamed Venture Orion, and it is solely within the “early phases of improvement,” CD Projekt mentioned in a news release. The staff engaged on the sport contains numerous senior staffers from the unique sport, together with Gabriel Amatangelo (sport director), Paweł Sasko (affiliate sport director), Igor Sarzyński (artistic director), Andrzej Stopa (cinematic director), Kacper Niepokólczycki (atmosphere artwork director), Sarah Grümmer (performing lead quest designer), and Kacper Kościeński (engineering director).
All of those individuals are engaged on the sequel at CD Projekt’s new workplace in Boston, Massachusetts. As for individuals who joined the Boston studio to work on the sequel, these embody former lead product supervisor at Blizzad, Dan Hernberg, who’s an government producer on the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel; IO Interactive and Huge Leisure’s Ryan Barnard as design director; and Mortal Kombat technical director Alan Villani, who’s engineering director on the Cyberpunk 2077 follow-up.
Moreover, author Anna Megill (Management, Dishonored: Demise of The Outsider, Guild Wars 2, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora) is becoming a member of the Cyberpunk sequel as its lead author. Megill additionally labored on the narrative parts for Microsoft’s upcoming Fable sport. Lastly, novelist and comedian ebook author Alexander Freed is engaged on the writing for the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel. Freed was beforehand a lead author at BioWare on Star Wars: The Outdated Republic, and he additionally wrote or consulted for DICE, Obsidian, and Wizards of the Coast.
Cyberpunk 2077 launched in December 2020 and had a rocky begin, however has since rebounded considerably and has shifted greater than 25 million copies. A gradual stream of updates and enhancements helped get the sport in a a lot better state, and an growth, Phantom Liberty, was launched in September 2023 to sturdy important opinions and tens of millions in gross sales.
The sequel was introduced in October 2022, and not too long ago, we realized that CD Projekt is exploring the potential of introducing multiplayer.
CD Projekt can be engaged on The Witcher 4 and a remake of the unique Witcher, amongst different initiatives.