{"id":1098311,"date":"2026-01-26T13:37:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/6vb6UJohJiTJdPBBYG2NG9"},"modified":"2026-01-26T13:37:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:37:45","slug":"the-witcher-3s-director-explains-why-he-had-to-leave-cdpr-to-make-his-dream-vampire-rpg-we-had-crazy-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-witcher-3s-director-explains-why-he-had-to-leave-cdpr-to-make-his-dream-vampire-rpg-we-had-crazy-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Witcher 3&#8217;s director explains why he had to leave CDPR to make his dream vampire RPG: &#8216;We had crazy ideas&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>For PC Gamer magazine&#8217;s upcoming<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/the-new-rpg-from-rebel-wolves-a-studio-founded-by-witcher-3-and-cyberpunk-2077-devs-asks-a-bold-question-what-if-geralt-was-a-vampire\/\" target=\"_blank\"> The Blood of Dawnwalker<\/a> issue, I flew out to Warsaw to visit developer Rebel Wolves and speak to a number of its key devs, including founder Konrad Tomaszkiewicz: Best-known for being the director of<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/uk\/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt\/\" target=\"_blank\"> The Witcher 3<\/a>, one of gaming&#8217;s greatest ever fantasy RPG experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Tomaszkiewicz also worked as a co-director on Cyberpunk 2077 before leaving CDPR. The obvious question is why an established and proven director would feel the need to move on from somewhere they&#8217;d helped to such success.\u201cI set up Rebel Wolves because I felt that I wanted to make something that is unique with my friends,\u201d says Tomaszkiewicz. \u201cOf course, we have a huge love of RPG games, and what has been done before in the past. [But] I feel that those things, those rules of RPG games, can be expanded and evolved. We had crazy ideas. We knew that, you know, if we wanted to make them, we needed to open our own studio, because it would be hard to convince any big company\u2014you know, with non-IP\u2014to change, and do something new, and do something crazy. Actually, it\u2019s risky, because we\u2019re doing some solutions which are new.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the second thing is that we have a studio where we work with the people, and among them, not like at the bigger studios where it\u2019s harder. I felt that a smaller team is capable of doing more, because the communication inside the team, and it\u2019s easier to speak about the vision. It\u2019s easier to feel the creative fire, and to do something special.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:6299px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"KwiijEdTVyjQPrRnucKTCH\" name=\"Dawnwalker\" alt=\"The Blood of Dawnwalker concept art, showing the fantasy RPG's visual style. A man walks through a rural town on a muddy path.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/the-witcher-3s-director-explains-why-he-had-to-leave-cdpr-to-make-his-dream-vampire-rpg-we-had-crazy-ideas.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"6299\" height=\"3543\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">The Blood of Dawnwalker concept art showing the Vale Sangora&#8217;s lead city, Svartrau. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Rebel Wolves)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Indeed, Rebel Wolves seems to be packing serious RPG heritage in its veins, as Konrad has been joined at his new studio by multiple other former CD Projekt developers, including the game&#8217;s design director, Daniel Sadowski, as well as creative director Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, both of which worked on the acclaimed Polish studio&#8217;s The Witcher series.<\/p>\n<p>Tomaszkiewicz is now game director on Rebel Wolves&#8217; new fantasy RPG, The Blood of Dawnwalker, which sees gamers step into the shoes of Coen, a half-human half-vampire. The basic setup sees Coen fighting back against a group of powerful vampires who have kidnapped his family, and taken over the entire Carpathian Mountains valley in which they live, the Vale Sangora.<\/p>\n<p>The devs at Rebel Wolves don&#8217;t appear to be resting on their reputations, either, with the studio looking to evolve the RPG genre in some interesting ways, including a fresh<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/the-blood-of-dawnwakers-design-director-explains-the-arpgs-time-as-resource-mechanic-and-how-both-action-and-inaction-have-consequences\/\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8216;time as a resource&#8217; mechanic<\/a>, which links every completed quest or task to the passage of time on a day-night cycle. This plays into the game&#8217;s &#8216;narrative sandbox&#8217; approach where gamers will shape their own stories in-game by choosing which quests and tasks they&#8217;re going to do (and which they are not, as they can&#8217;t do everything at the same time) in order to take-on and, hopefully, beat the vampire antagonists.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/the-witcher-3s-director-explains-why-he-had-to-leave-cdpr-to-make-his-dream-vampire-rpg-we-had-crazy-ideas\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For PC Gamer magazine&#8217;s upcoming The Blood of Dawnwalker issue, I flew out to Warsaw to visit developer Rebel Wolves and speak to a number of its key devs, including founder Konrad Tomaszkiewicz: Best-known for being the director of The Witcher 3, one of gaming&#8217;s greatest ever fantasy RPG experiences. Tomaszkiewicz also worked as a co-director on Cyberpunk 2077 before leaving CDPR. The obvious question is why an established and proven director would feel the need to move on from somewhere they&#8217;d helped to such success.\u201cI set up Rebel Wolves because I felt that I wanted to make something that is unique with my friends,\u201d says Tomaszkiewicz. \u201cOf course, we have a huge love of RPG games, and what has been done before in the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-witcher-3s-director-explains-why-he-had-to-leave-cdpr-to-make-his-dream-vampire-rpg-we-had-crazy-ideas\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1098312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,34],"class_list":["post-1098311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-rpg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- 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