Ex-CD Projekt RED Designer Heading Up Techland's Open World RPG
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We told you about a new open world RPG in development at Techland earlier this year, but since that time, we haven't heard a thing about it. That really hasn't changed, but it's certainly worth noting that ex-Witcher and Gwent designer Damien Monnier announced last month that he had left CD Projekt RED, and then subsequently followed it up with another announcement this month that he has accepted a position as lead designer on "an exciting new IP" at Techland.
Put two and two together, then add in a dash of this article at Eurogamer, and we now know who will be heading up the mysterious title:
It's the new IP Techland announced in May, the studio told me this morning. This is an open-world fantasy game with RPG elements, co-op multiplayer and single-player. Fits well with the experience Damien Monnier accrued working on The Witcher series from 2012 to 2016. Plus, Techland's open-world fantasy team is in Warsaw, as is Monnier and CD Projekt Red.
Monnier was a senior gameplay designer during The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt development, then lead designer of breakaway title Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, currently in closed beta. Before CD Projekt Red, Monnier worked as a level and game designer at Sony, at Evolution Studios, developer of MotorStorm and DriveClub.
Techland said to me in a statement: "As a whole, we're extremely excited to welcome all the recent additions to the Techland family. We've got really big ambitions for our next internally developed games so people with ingenious ideas as well as the skill and knowledge to bring them to life are absolutely essential."
