Insurgent Wolves might not have but launched its first sport, The Blood of Dawnwalker, however the studio’s CEO and co-founder, Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, is already eager about not simply additional video games within the saga, however a complete new IP.
From nearly the beginning of The Blood of Dawnwalker’s promotional marketing campaign, Insurgent Wolves has been upfront in regards to the truth it considers the RPG the beginning of a saga. Final 12 months, at Gamescom, artistic director Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz informed us “There may be this complete hidden world that we’re not exploring on objective on this first sport. We need to depart a lot of gasoline for the sequels and so forth. However we do depart breadcrumbs and trace at this stuff. So yeah, we’ve got a basic concept of the place we need to take [protagonist] Coen.”
Whereas visiting Insurgent Wolves’ headquarters in Warsaw, Poland, I requested studio CEO, co-founder, and sport director, Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, if he envisioned being devoted to Dawnwalker for the subsequent couple of a long time, or if he wished to discover different areas of the RPG style?
“I feel that it is actually good to work how Blizzard labored earlier than,” he answered. “That they had Warcraft, however in addition they created StarCraft. It is good as a result of individuals want refreshment. And in some unspecified time in the future we have to create a second IP.”
“I feel that, a while from now, we’ll do one sport from [the Dawnwalker] IP and a second sport from a totally different IP, after which again to [Dawnwalker],” he continued.
As half of the bigger interview, Tomaszkiewicz touched on his frustration with engaged on initiatives which are “the identical however totally different”. His hope is that each he and his staff can keep away from that frustration by feeling good in regards to the video games they work on, and that the “refreshment” provided by a new IP can assist safe that.
“Right here within the studio, an important [thing] is to clearly create the cool stuff, however we’re saying that the staff [comes] first,” Tomaszkiewicz defined. “We need to work with the individuals we’ve got so long as it is doable. We have to create the setting, ranging from how they really feel within the firm, but in addition how they really feel engaged on this explicit sport now.”
Tomaszkiewicz is, of course, no stranger to the refreshment that comes with exploring new IP. A 17 12 months veteran of CD Challenge Pink, he labored on The Witcher trilogy from 2004 all the way in which into 2018, when he was made design director of Cyberpunk 2077. He labored on the sci-fi RPG for 3 and a half years earlier than departing the corporate and organising Insurgent Wolves.
Earlier than we get wherever near a second IP from Insurgent Wolves, we first get The Blood of Dawnwalker, which launches later this 12 months on September 3. To study extra, try our preview of the RPG’s consequence-filled prologue, in addition to our interview with sport director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz.
Matt Purslow is IGN’s Government Editor of Options.