Ex Witcher and Cyberpunk devs making an apocalypse game with a “twist”

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Multiple former CD Projekt Red developers that worked on both The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 have formed the brand new Blank Game Studios. The team spoke to PCGamesN about the first game they will be making; a “character-driven apocalypse game” with a twist. While the single-player game from former The Witcher 3 staff is still in early development, we do have some concept art to share and words from the team.

PCGamesN spoke with Blank co-founder and game director Mateusz Kanik, who was the gameplay design director for Cyberpunk 2077, and lead producer on both Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3, Jędrzej Mróz, who is a Blank co-founder and executive producer.

You can see the character-driven apocalypse game’s concept art below, but both Kanik and Mróz remained understandably tight-lipped about the game, which is still in early development.

Kanik says Blank Game Studio has “a few twists” up its sleeve with this game’s world space and mechanics, so we asked the two how they’re going to leverage their experiences with multiple pre-established IPs and worldbuilding to help with this original story.

“We still needed to create our own atmosphere and show how we see the books from Mike Pondsmith for Cyberpunk 2077,” Mróz explains. “So we have some experience with that for sure, and we want to use that knowledge of how to create a mature character and story because that’s what drives us here at Blank Game Studios.”

“When you’re working on a defined IP, as a creative person, you’re a little bit limited by the boundaries of the material that you’re working on,” Kanik explains. “Of course, depending on the assumptions of the project, sometimes you can go outside of those boundaries. But when you’re working on something completely new