Former game director of The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 will try to avoid CDPR's mistakes at his new studio

Konrad Tomaszkiewicz spoke about his aspirations at the new Rebel Wolves studio and how he applies the lessons learned from working at CD Projekt Red.

Speaking with Bloomberg, the studio founder explained that the studio will not grow to the scale of The Witcher and Cyberpunk. First and foremost, he believes that the more hands touch a project, the more it gets lost, which is what happened with Cyberpunk 2077.

“When you work in a company like ours, you don't have 20 colleagues, you have 5. You have to do more, but at the same time you have a greater impact on the game.”

Tomaszkiewicz began his game development career at CDPR almost 20 years ago. Acknowledging that working in a smaller team is “completely different” from working at his former studio, he also considers it a welcome change, saying that he “misses daily communication with the rest of the team.”

He noted that Rebel Wolves follows a “team first” policy, where “we think about what we can do to keep the team motivated and happy.”

For Tomaszkiewicz, this policy is an opportunity to make amends for past behavior. When he left CDPR in 2021, he was accused of workplace bullying, which he denied, stating that he would work on himself so it would not happen again.

According to him, working in a significantly smaller team helped him improve his behavior and “show more empathy.”

After Rebel Wolves was launched, 24 CDPR employees joined him, including his brother, writer Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, who supported Konrad during the allegations.

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