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Aspiring Game Producer. Working hard towards finding a home! Currently Playing: Witcher 3
Yeah totally fair, it happened so quickly after all
December 13, 2024 at 3:18 AM
I thought Todd motioned to her to go for a speech and she declined if I saw correctly?
December 13, 2024 at 3:14 AM
The Ed Edd and Eddy game is the one that escaped my childhood, I must get one myself now
November 28, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Just followed! Aspiring game producer here, your work is fantastic!
November 26, 2024 at 4:24 AM
Again, I just wanted to share my notes in case this helped anyone. As an aspiring producer I think understanding other divisions go along way, and even this goes well into how CDPR went about iterations and the process.

Please feel free to watch the original GDC talk here:

youtu.be/nAkH86__g0o?...
10 Key Quest Design Lessons from 'The Witcher 3' and 'Cyberpunk 2077'
YouTube video by GDC 2025
youtu.be
November 25, 2024 at 9:46 PM
The structure of the narrative pipeline is as such:

• Pre-alpha
• Alpha
• Pre-beta
• Beta
• Polish

• CDPR’s games are about the story and the most important fact in that is that they would always like to take the player on an adventure to their worlds and make it imperative that it feels realistic
November 25, 2024 at 9:46 PM
(4/4)

▪ When the process is concluded, the company calls this the ‘first
playable’. The goal of the draft stage is to ensure that all the quests are playable which in turn makes the whole game playable.
November 25, 2024 at 9:46 PM
(3/4)

▪ The first elements of gameplay are also in this phase as the team
wants to make sure the quest is playable.
November 25, 2024 at 9:46 PM
(2/3)

▪ Then after the approval, block out locations are then worked on by the level design team.

▪ The quest design team then begins working on the first drafts of the dialogue. This is sketched out not written to get an idea of what the scene is about
November 25, 2024 at 9:46 PM