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The Witcher 3 director talks evolving freedom of choice in upcoming RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker – 'you can do whatever you want to do'

We sit down with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz to discuss his upcoming game The Blood of Dawnwalker.

The Witcher 3’s developers have a new vampiric RPG, and there’s no main quest

The Witcher 3’s developers have a new vampiric RPG, and there’s no main quest

The Blood of Dawnwalker will allow players to tackle their enemies whenever they want, no matter the cost.

Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3 veteran says superhero smash hit Dispatch is "my game of the year" – and it certainly wouldn't be replicable with AI

Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3 veteran says superhero smash hit Dispatch is "my game of the year" – and it certainly wouldn't be replicable with AI

"It's not possible"

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GTA 6 might be the "massive game with massive marketing," but The Witcher 3 director doesn't mind launching his next RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker at the same time: "I'm fine with it"

Rebel Wolves' Konrad Tomaszkiewicz is the coolest guy in the room

"We are more effective than bigger teams": Ahead of Blood of Dawnwalker's release next year, Rebel Wolves lead says he doesn't want the studio to grow

"Because we don't have so many people, people feel responsible for some parts of the game, and feel ownership of it. And I think that this is the most important thing"

The Witcher 3 director says his upcoming RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker isn't "going fully into the vampire fantasy," and expect some Dishonored vibes

Half-hominid, half-spirit

CD Projekt Red veteran behind The Blood of Dawnwalker says time isn't just a "resource" in the RPG but a currency, which players are in control of "fully" as they contend with the vampire game's unique 30 day limit

Your time is limited, spend it wisely

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The Blood of Dawnwalker lead says the new vampire RPG is a "more immersive game" with consequences – not like others where "you can do whatever you want for 80 hours and nothing happens"

The Blood of Dawnwalker lead says the new vampire RPG is a "more immersive game" with consequences – not like others where "you can do whatever you want for 80 hours and nothing happens"

This is no Skyrim

Ex-CDPR dev behind The Witcher 3 says new vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker is all about how players "shape their own way of play," just as "pen and paper refugees" did in tabletop games like D&D

Ex-CDPR dev behind The Witcher 3 says new vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker is all about how players "shape their own way of play," just as "pen and paper refugees" did in tabletop games like D&D

"I believe that RPG games should be about choice"

The dark fantasy RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker gets first gameplay trailer and a 2026 release window

The dark fantasy RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker gets first gameplay trailer and a 2026 release window

Rebel Wolves has announced that its debut game, The Blood of Dawnwalker, will launch in 2026.

The Witcher 3 dev says his new vampire RPG Blood of Dawnwalker wants to challenge genre conventions, but only if "we're changing them to actually achieve some goal"

The Witcher 3 dev says his new vampire RPG Blood of Dawnwalker wants to challenge genre conventions, but only if "we're changing them to actually achieve some goal"

"Sometimes even very mild changes can be extremely controversial to people"

The Witcher 3 devs created a Jekyll & Hyde-style character for their new vampire RPG "because nobody yet has done that"

The Witcher 3 devs created a Jekyll & Hyde-style character for their new vampire RPG "because nobody yet has done that"

The Witcher 3 director's upcoming vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker is "fully funded" and still on track, assures studio lead amid "rumored situation at NetEase"

The Witcher 3 director's upcoming vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker is "fully funded" and still on track, assures studio lead amid "rumored situation at NetEase"

"NetEase is Rebel Wolves' minority shareholder"

The new game from The Witcher 3's director revives the best tradition of Morrowind by letting you kill off 'really important NPCs'

The new game from The Witcher 3's director revives the best tradition of Morrowind by letting you kill off 'really important NPCs'

I choose to persist in the doomed world I've created, thanks.

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"I really hate how we did it": The Witcher 3 quest lead says there are parts of the iconic RPG he still wishes he could "time travel and fix"

Blood of Dawnwalker creative director Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz has some regrets from his time at CDPR

The Blood of Dawnwalker: Everything you need to know about the vampire RPG

Get ready for The Blood of Dawnwalker to sire you this September

The Witcher 3 director says he left CDPR to make his own open-world vampire game because "those rules of RPGs" can be bent and "a smaller team is capable of doing more"

The Blood of Dawnwalker was too "risky" to make at CDPR

The Witcher 3 director's new vampire open-world game sure sounds like it took a page from the D&D and Baldur's Gate playbook: "Sometimes it feels like playing a paper RPG"

The Blood of Dawnwalker is all about "maximising players' freedom"

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The Witcher 3's director says he has designed his new vampire RPG to explore 'something in pop culture that nobody yet has done' in videogames: 'We will see how people like it'

A new type of hero

The Witcher 3's director explains why he had to leave CDPR to make his dream vampire RPG: 'We had crazy ideas'

The Witcher 3's director explains why he had to leave CDPR to make his dream vampire RPG: 'We had crazy ideas'

The Blood of Dawnwalker's design director explains the ARPG's time-as-resource mechanic, and how 'both action and inaction have consequences’

The Blood of Dawnwalker's design director explains the ARPG's time-as-resource mechanic, and how 'both action and inaction have consequences’

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The Blood of Dawnwalker is a new vampire RPG and 'narrative sandbox' from former Witcher and Cyberpunk developers

Rebel Wolves, a team founded by former CD Projekt RED developers, is working on The Blood of Dawnwalker, a vampire RPG being built in Unreal Engine 5.

Former The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 devs reveal new Vampiric dark fantasy open-world RPG that's "the first chapter" of a "brand new role-playing saga"

The Blood of Dawnwalker is the debut project from ex-CDPR devs' new studio, Rebel Wolves

Former Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 devs officially reveal their first game, and yeah it sure looks like vampires

Rebel Wolves was founded by CD Projekt veterans in 2022.

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