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Konrad Tomaszkiewicz loves RPGs. That will come as a surprise to no one who takes even a cursory glance at his career history, which saw him rise from a junior tester all the way up to the director of The Witcher 3 and its expansions over a 17-year journey with CD Projekt Red.<\/p>\n

Today, Tomaszkiewicz has his own studio, Rebel Wolves, which is dedicated to making new games in the genre he\u2019s loved for decades. <\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the first PCs, my favorite games were Eye of the Beholder and Betrayal at Krondor,\u201d he reminisces. \u201cLater it was Ultima 7, Baldur’s Gate, the first Fallout. And then there was definitely Vampire: The Masquerade \u2013 Bloodlines, the first one. It was buggy as hell but it was a great game. So many possibilities, every vampire clan and different ways of play. It was really, really great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps Tomaszkiewicz\u2019s love for Bloodlines was the distant origin point for The Blood of Dawnwalker<\/a>, Rebel Wolves\u2019 upcoming, deeply ambitious vampire RPG. As in Troika\u2019s beloved game, Dawnwalker makes clever use of vampire mythology to inform its gameplay mechanics, including a hunger system that overrides your dialogue options with a desperate need to feed when you\u2019re starved of blood. Ignore your cravings for too long and you may find yourself involuntarily draining a major NPC of their lifeforce, permanently removing them from the story.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s systems like that that have ensured RPGs have remained Tomaszkiewicz\u2019s favourite genre through the decades. \u201c[They] are the most important for me because they allow me to choose,\u201d he says. \u201cThey allow me to feel the consequence of my choices.\u201d <\/p>\n

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For the Love of RPGs<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Tomaszkiewicz\u2019s fascination with the immersive qualities of RPGs began early on. \u201cI had quite a difficult childhood because my father was a surgeon, but the problem was that he was also an alcoholic,\u201d he explains. \u201cWe had a lot of things which were really heavy and video games were an escape. RPGs were the most immersive because when I went into the role, it was really important for me to solve those mysteries or go through the adventures. This escape was really perfect for me because I could forget about reality in those games.\u201d<\/p>\n

RPGs have been so formative in Tomaszkiewicz\u2019s life that he simply won\u2019t consider making any other kind of game. \u201cI will not go to do racing games or shooters, because [role-playing games] is something which is inside me. This is what I want to create.\u201d<\/p>\n

That brings us to Rebel Wolves. As you enter into its Warsaw-based offices, you\u2019re greeted by a wall mural that reads \u201cA studio born out of love for RPGs.\u201d Its desks are manned by all manner of RPG enthusiasts, including family (both figuratively and literally \u2013 Tomaszkiewicz\u2019s brother, Mateusz, is Dawnwalker\u2019s creative director) who followed him from CD Projekt Red, and new allies with varied past experiences, from train simulators to historical reenactment. Together, they hope to create a medieval fantasy RPG that’s \u201cmeaningful for players and the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But what does Rebel Wolves mean by that? When it comes to players, Tomaszkiewicz explains it’s not just about delivering an impactful story, but something that will encourage thought and reflection after playing. \u201cWhen I hear from the players that they experienced something new and something fresh, this is meaningful for me,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

As for the industry, Tomaszkiewicz points towards The Blood of Dawnwalker\u2019s central mechanic: time. You have just 30 days and 30 nights to save protagonist Coen\u2019s family from the clutches of evil vampires, with actions such as completing objectives and engaging in certain conversations pushing the clock forward. While it shares common ground with the time management loops in games like Persona and Disco Elysium, it\u2019s a new way of adding pressure and consequence to a Witcher-style RPG. <\/p>\n

\u201cI want to show to the industry that it’s possible to do this risky stuff,\u201d Tomaszkiewicz says, \u201cand to change the feeling of the genre, to create a branch of the genre, because I think that there is a lot of space and a lot of unknown we haven\u2019t explored yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Risky Business<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Tomaszkiewicz admits that \u201cwe were a little bored\u201d of making what he calls \u201csame-but-new\u201d video games. \u201cWhen you release the one game and it is a success, people want more of this, but they don’t want you to change it because they love this particular idea,\u201d he laments. \u201cAnd obviously when you have these stakeholders or the stock market and so on, there are the needs from those sides and it’s quite hard to please everyone.\u201d <\/p>\n

On the surface, The Blood of Dawnwalker does admittedly look very similar to The Witcher 3. It\u2019s another single protagonist RPG with a focus on action combat, deep choices, and cinematic presentation \u2013 it looks same-but-new. But the team wanted to create something that was fundamentally very different. That\u2019s where the idea of the \u201cnarrative sandbox\u201d came in; Dawnwalker doesn\u2019t have a classic main quest line that takes you from prologue to final boss. Instead, after the introduction you\u2019re free to explore the world and complete its many, many quests in any order you like. Some overlap, creating a deeper sense of place and politics. But none are mandatory \u2013 you can simply go right from tutorial to the final encounter if you really want to. <\/p>\n

When you have the big companies which have established IPs, it’s really hard to do something really innovative because it’s always about being same-but-new.<\/section>\n

\u201cOur mission should be to deliver not only a cool experience, which is \u2018safe\u2019 because we know how to do that, but we should also explore these areas which we are not experts in yet, and to try to deliver some fresh feelings,\u201d insists Tomaszkiewicz. \u201cObviously here the risk is bigger, but I think that it’s worth it because later on you will be remembered in the industry, because you created something really new. Maybe in the future some other people will try to do the \u2018narrative sandbox\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

I ask Tomaszkiewicz if Dawnwalker\u2019s narrative sandbox and time loop were things he could have accomplished at CDPR or another large, established studio. \u201cI think I couldn’t,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen you have the big companies which have established IPs, it’s really hard to change something or do something really innovative because it’s always about being same-but-new. You already know the playerbase wants almost the same, but new, in comparison to doing something really fresh and new. I think that Cyberpunk was this kind of jump for CDPR, but it’s really hard to go through with ideas like this in the big companies. And here, when I have my own company, I can, with the commerce [team] and my [development] team, make our own mistakes or our own decisions of crazy stuff we want to create.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Beyond Dawnwalker<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Considering Tomaszkiewicz\u2019s frustrations with a development system that forces studios to make overly-similar games, I ask about his vision for the future of Rebel Wolves. The Blood of Dawnwalker is planned to be a saga, but won\u2019t that mean developing iterative sequels that are \u201csame-but-new\u201d?<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that it’s really smart to work how Blizzard worked before,\u201d he says, pointing back to the Californian studio\u2019s early days. \u201cThey had Warcraft, but they also created StarCraft. It’s smart because people need refreshment. And at some point we need to create a second IP. I think that, some time from now, we will do one game from [the Dawnwalker] IP and a second game from a different IP, and then back to [Dawnwalker].\u201d <\/p>\n

Tomaszkiewicz notes that he wants to work with his team for as long as possible, and he recognises that part of the challenge is creating an environment that will foster creative happiness. He believes that creating a second IP will (at least partly) fix the problem of developers stifled by working on \u201csame-but-new\u201d projects. <\/p>\n

Levelling up the RPG<\/strong><\/h2>\n

As a life-long fan of role-playing games, Tomaszkiewicz has watched the genre change in real-time. \u201cBecause of this evolution of tools and of tech, you can do things faster, you can develop games with bigger words, with the features you couldn’t do sometime ago,\u201d he says. \u201cThe perfect example is Crimson Desert, because the amount of features they have is insane! And I’m laughing that, if it would be possible for me to have so many features like they have, combined with the story we can tell, we would create a holy grail.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such a lofty goal raises the question of AI, which the tech giants of the world promise can deliver super-human productivity. Tomaszkiewicz confirms that Rebel Wolves has used generative AI as part of Dawnwalker\u2019s development<\/a> \u2013 artificial voices were used during the early stages of design to create a sort of draft version of cutscenes and dialogues, which allowed the team to work out if the script worked in practice before the cast of actors were brought in to record their performances. The final version of Dawnwalker will feature no AI assets at all, though. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think that companies should use AI, but in the way which helps people to work, not replace the people,\u201d emphasises Tomaszkiewicz. <\/p>\n

He uses Rebel Wolves\u2019 in-house QA team as an example of how AI tools could be used to improve development. \u201cThey sometimes have the task that they need to, for example, go through the terrain and check if there are no holes in the terrain and that the collisions are good,\u201d he explains. \u201cAt the same time, they could play the quest and tell me if they like the characters or if the gameplay loops are fun enough, or if the timings in the combat can be better or whatever, right? And my approach is that I feel that we should use AI to help our people to work and take from them these tasks which are annoying and frustrating and allow them to do this more fun work, which is needed, actually.\u201d <\/p>\n

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That\u2019s not a reality for Rebel Wolves at the moment, and so the developer\u2019s 150 staff must carefully focus on the things that are worth spending time on. Given time and money, such a team could almost certainly achieve that \u201choly grail\u201d of Crimson Desert\u2019s feature-packed world grafted onto The Blood of Dawnwalkers story, without any need for AI. But the reality of game development is that there are time and money constraints, and that can shape a studio\u2019s outlook and drive. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have here philosophy that we create features which support the story and the feel we want to create. We prefer to create less features, but [make them] more polished,\u201d Tomaszkiewicz explains. \u201cFrom my perspective, all of this stuff needs to have meaning in the game, or I need to have the motivation to use them.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Tomaszkiewicz\u2019s real motivation for pushing forward the genre is something he shares with many of the world\u2019s most prominent RPG developers. It all goes back to where the genre began: on the tabletop, with 20-sided dice and a dungeon master.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re learning how to give even more freedom to players,\u201d he says. \u201cNot only in the gameplay and exploration of the world, but also the story elements. Like in quests, allowing you to complete your goal in many, many ways. It’s moving the video game closer to pen and paper RPGs, and I think that this is the holy grail of what we want to achieve. To give you the freedom and give you immersion, which allows you to experience \u2013 emotionality-wise and feeling-wise \u2013 the games in a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n

For many, Larian\u2019s Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 has set an almost impossible high bar when it comes to that kind of ambition. But, from what I\u2019ve seen of The Blood of Dawnwalker so far, its dedication to choice and shocking consequences<\/a>, as well as its ambitious \u201cnarrative sandbox\u201d design<\/a>, means that it stands a chance of capturing the magic of an unforgettable D&D session. And if it all goes well, Tomaszkiewicz will have helped install yet another Polish studio among RPG royalty. <\/p>\n

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Matt Purslow is IGN’s Executive Editor of Features. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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