The Blood of Dawnwalker Director Hopes To Make a Second IP, Like CDPR Did With Cyberpunk

Rebel Wolves whitethorn not person yet launched its archetypal game, The Blood of Dawnwalker, but the studio’s CEO and co-founder, Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, is already reasoning astir not conscionable further games successful the saga, but a full caller IP.

From astir the commencement of The Blood of Dawnwalker’s promotional campaign, Rebel Wolves has been upfront astir the information it considers the RPG the commencement of a saga. Last year, astatine Gamescom, originative manager Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz told america “There is this full hidden satellite that we are not exploring connected intent successful this archetypal game. We privation to permission a batch of substance for the sequels and truthful on. But we bash permission breadcrumbs and hint astatine these things. So yeah, we person a wide thought of wherever we privation to instrumentality [protagonist] Coen.”

While visiting Rebel Wolves’ office successful Warsaw, Poland, I asked workplace CEO, co-founder, and crippled director, Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, if helium envisioned being dedicated to Dawnwalker for the adjacent mates of decades, oregon if helium wanted to research different areas of the RPG genre?

“I deliberation that it's truly astute to enactment however Blizzard worked before,” helium answered. “They had Warcraft, but they besides created StarCraft. It's astute due to the fact that radical request refreshment. And astatine immoderate constituent we request to make a 2nd IP.”

“I deliberation that, immoderate clip from now, we volition bash 1 crippled from [the Dawnwalker] IP and a 2nd crippled from a antithetic IP, and past backmost to [Dawnwalker],” helium continued.

As portion of the larger interview, Tomaszkiewicz touched connected his vexation with moving connected projects that are “the aforesaid but different”. His anticipation is that some helium and his squad tin debar that vexation by feeling bully astir the games they enactment on, and that the “refreshment” offered by a caller IP tin assistance unafraid that.

“Here successful the studio, the astir important [thing] is to evidently make the chill stuff, but we're saying that the squad [comes] first,” Tomaszkiewicz explained. “We privation to enactment with the radical we person arsenic agelong arsenic it's possible. We request to make the environment, starting from however they consciousness successful the company, but besides however they consciousness moving connected this peculiar crippled now.”

Tomaszkiewicz is, of course, nary alien to the refreshment that comes with exploring caller IP. A 17 twelvemonth seasoned of CD Project Red, helium worked connected The Witcher trilogy from 2004 each the mode into 2018, erstwhile helium was made plan manager of Cyberpunk 2077. He worked connected the sci-fi RPG for 3 and a fractional years earlier departing the institution and mounting up Rebel Wolves.

Before we get anyplace adjacent to a 2nd IP from Rebel Wolves, we archetypal get The Blood of Dawnwalker, which launches aboriginal this twelvemonth connected September 3. To larn more, cheque retired our preview of the RPG’s consequence-filled prologue, arsenic good arsenic our interrogation with crippled manager Konrad Tomaszkiewicz.

Matt Purslow is IGN's Executive Editor of Features.