The Blood of Dawnwalker Studio Uses AI, but There’s No AI Assets in the Game

The usage of artificial quality successful video crippled improvement has go a thorny and divisive taxable implicit the past mates of years, and truthful people it was a taxable of speech during a caller property Q&A league with The Blood of Dawnwalker’s crippled director, Konrad Tomaszkiewicz. The erstwhile Witcher 3 manager revealed that generative AI exertion is utilized astatine the workplace arsenic portion of the improvement process, utilized with the volition of preventing accent and overtime alternatively than creating last assets.

Tomaszkiewicz revealed that generative AI voices were utilized during the aboriginal stages of The Blood of Dawnwalker's development, with the volition of investigating and locking successful the publication earlier it was handed implicit to actors.

“In our genre, erstwhile you enactment connected an RPG crippled – which is recorded successful [six] languages, right? – the VO (voice over) is truly hard and truly costly worldly to do. You request to beryllium definite that what you're signaling is what you privation to record. Because, archetypal of all, changes are truly expensive. But the 2nd happening is that, the infinitesimal erstwhile you commencement to perceive the game, perceive the NPCs and truthful on, is the infinitesimal erstwhile you fig retired that thing successful the communicative works oregon does not work. And erstwhile you grounds each of this, and that infinitesimal you fig it retired and you privation to alteration the story, you [have to] grounds again a full [section] of story, and it's truly expensive.”

“It's a truly atrocious process,” helium continued, “because erstwhile you commencement to alteration worldly successful the mediate of accumulation of the game, it makes unit for the team. It makes problems and overtime and different stuff, and we wanted to debar that.

“That's wherefore we usage these benignant of tools successful the beginning, to bash iteration of the story. And erstwhile we’re definite that we are wherever we privation to [be], we region each those [AI] voices and grounds everything with the actors.”

While generative AI has been utilized for what could beryllium considered “draft” passes of the publication for investigating purposes, Tomaszkiewicz has different ideas connected however artificial quality could beryllium utilized successful development.

“We person our ain QA team, right. They sometimes person the task that they request to, for example, spell done the terrain and cheque if determination are nary holes successful the terrain and that the collisions are good. At the aforesaid time, they could play the quest and archer maine if they similar the characters oregon if the gameplay loops are amusive enough, oregon if the timings successful the combat tin beryllium amended oregon whatever, right? And my attack is that I consciousness that we should usage AI to assistance our radical to enactment and instrumentality from them these tasks which are annoying and frustrating and let them to bash this much amusive work, which is needed, actually.”

“I deliberation that companies should usage AI, but successful the mode which helps radical to work, not regenerate the people,” helium explained.

Before the Q&A concluded, a spokesperson from Rebel Wolves went connected to clarify the studio’s stance connected AI erstwhile it comes to the last product: “I privation to marque 1 happening perfectly clear: thing that's successful The Blood of Dawnwalker was created utilizing generative AI. Nothing. People with humor and soma made this crippled from the opening to the end.”

Rebel Wolves’ stance connected AI wasn’t the lone happening we learned astir portion visiting the workplace – we besides discussed The Blood of Dawnwalker’s romance options and the developer's plans for a 2nd IP. We besides got to ticker a playthrough of the vampire RPG’s consequence-filled prologue, arsenic good arsenic speech astatine magnitude astir RPGs with crippled manager Konrad Tomaszkiewicz. The Blood of Dawnwalker volition motorboat connected September 3, 2026.

Matt Purslow is IGN's Executive Editor of Features.