{"id":736798,"date":"2025-11-22T19:42:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yFTuAaAHJbuSxzbRnwSYw6"},"modified":"2025-11-22T19:42:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:42:50","slug":"cyberpunk-2077-sequel-announces-new-lead-writer-design-director-and-executive-producer-its-like-renaissance-but-with-laser-katanas-creative-director-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/cyberpunk-2077-sequel-announces-new-lead-writer-design-director-and-executive-producer-its-like-renaissance-but-with-laser-katanas-creative-director-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberpunk 2077 sequel announces new lead writer, design director, and executive producer: &#8216;It&#8217;s like renaissance but with laser katanas,&#8217; creative director says"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>CD Projekt officially confirmed in October that the sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 is in <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/cyberpunk-2077-sequel-is-officially-in-early-development-cd-projekt-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early development<\/a>, and it seems that process is starting to heat up. The studio announced today that it&apos;s added five veteran developers &#8220;with years of experience&#8221; to the team, including former New World head of production Dan Hernberg and Control pre-production narrative lead Anna Megill.<\/p>\n<p>Megill had previously served as narrative lead on Playgrounds Games&apos; still-in-development <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/fable-reboot-gets-a-new-narrative-lead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fable reboot<\/a>, a role she took on in June 2022. She announced her <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cynixy\/status\/1679857348880285706\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">departure<\/a> from the project in July 2023, saying &#8220;the time feels right for new challenges,&#8221; and apparently she found a good one. She&apos;s now the lead writer on Project Orion, as the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel is currently known, and brings considerable experience to the role: Along with Fable and Orion, Megill&apos;s game writing credits include Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and Guild Wars 2.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Megill in the writers&apos; room is Alexander Freed, who&apos;s previously written for games including Star Wars: The Old Republic, Wasteland 3, and Battlefield 2042. He&apos;s also a New York Times best-selling author with a whole big bunch of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/stores\/Alexander-Freed\/author\/B003R7OV1C\/allbooks?ref=ap_rdr&#038;isDramIntegrated=true&#038;shoppingPortalEnabled=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">novels and comics<\/a> to his name.<\/p>\n<p>Hernberg, now the executive producer on Orion, has previously worked on New World and Lost Ark\u2014head of production on both\u2014and a range of Blizzard games you may have heard of including Overwatch, StarCraft 2, World of Warcraft, and Diablo 3. He also spent a few years at Panic Button, during which time he earned credits on Apex Legends, Doom and Doom Eternal, Wolfenstein: Youngblood, and Subnautica.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Barnard, with design and direction credits on Crysis 2, Ryse: Son of Rome, The Division, and Hitman 2, has joined the Orion team as design director, while Alan Villani, formerly vice president of technology on a number of Warner games including Mortal Combat X and Mad Max, has signed on as engineering director.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/szaszlykos\/status\/1754885557627310309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/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:1056px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:84.09%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"RGDixKYs4xBi3RvvE6rD7H\" name=\"igor.png\" alt=\"and here's our Orion edgerunner crew. the amount of talent on board is truly mindmelting. it's like renaissance but with laser katanas\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cyberpunk-2077-sequel-announces-new-lead-writer-design-director-and-executive-producer-its-like-renaissance-but-with-laser-katanas-creative-director-says.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1056\" height=\"888\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Igor Sarzy\u0144ski (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And here&apos;s our Orion edgerunner crew,&#8221; Cyberpunk 2077 creative director Igor Sarzy\u0144ski <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/szaszlykos\/status\/1754885557627310309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>. &#8220;The amount of talent on board is truly mindmelting. It&apos;s like renaissance but with laser katanas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes a month after Sarzy\u0144ski said CD Projekt was ready to &#8220;<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/cd-projekt-narrative-director-declares-cyberpunk-2077-just-a-warm-up-as-work-kicks-off-on-the-sequel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">officially kickstart our Orion journey<\/a>,&#8221; and I get the sense the studio is hoping to reassure fans that the project is in good hands\u2014and that this time, it knows exactly what it&apos;s doing: Sarzy\u0144ski also said in January that Cyberpunk 2077 &#8220;was just a warm-up.&#8221; While it&apos;s certainly well-regarded now, Cyberpunk 2077&apos;s launch was less &#8220;warm-up&#8221; and more &#8220;tire fire&#8221;\u2014a very buggy game that released after a period of mandatory <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/cd-projekt-boss-says-cyberpunk-2077-crunch-is-not-bad-thatand-never-was\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crunch<\/a>. Thwarting the notion that the sequel might repeat history is clearly on CD Projekt&apos;s mind.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/cyberpunk-2077-sequel-announces-new-lead-writer-design-director-and-executive-producer-its-like-renaissance-but-with-laser-katanas-creative-director-says\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CD Projekt officially confirmed in October that the sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 is in early development, and it seems that process is starting to heat up. The studio announced today that it&apos;s added five veteran developers &#8220;with years of experience&#8221; to the team, including former New World head of production Dan Hernberg and Control pre-production narrative lead Anna Megill. Megill had previously served as narrative lead on Playgrounds Games&apos; still-in-development Fable reboot, a role she took on in June 2022. She announced her departure from the project in July 2023, saying &#8220;the time feels right for new challenges,&#8221; and apparently she found a good one. She&apos;s now the lead writer on Project Orion, as the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel is currently known, and brings considerable experience&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/cyberpunk-2077-sequel-announces-new-lead-writer-design-director-and-executive-producer-its-like-renaissance-but-with-laser-katanas-creative-director-says\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[172,173,34],"class_list":["post-736798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-cd-projekt","tag-cd-projekt-red","tag-rpg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cyberpunk 2077 sequel announces new 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