Studio Profile: CD Projekt Red

The Polish studio behind The Witcher series tells Tom May about its move to sci-fi and why it’s the fans that matter

The Polish studio behind The Witcher series tells us about its move to sci-fi and why it’s the fans that matter.

CD Projekt Red is the Polish games studio that’s best known for The Witcher series of fantasy role-playing games, based on the monster hunter series of novels by Andrzej Sapkowski. It’s also moving into the world of sci-fi in the form of Cyberpunk 2077, an open-world role-playing game based on the Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop role- playing game system that’s due for release next year.

With all this creative activity, a wide variety of artists are needed at the Warsaw-based firm, says character art

director Paweł Mielniczuk. “Our artists’ specialities range from concept design, to organic and hard surface