Michał Nowakowski, joint-CEO of The Witcher IV developer CD Projekt RED, has revealed during the company’s latest earnings call the studio is still predominantly using real people as opposed to AI to develop its titles, describing the technology as a “tool like many others” to help in the process.
AI is definitely becoming a thing in the games development as well. We are still predominantly using people and this is our plan, to make games where we’re not walking away from that. AI, if anything, is a tool like many others that’s helping in places that can maybe become more helpful in the future but we’re not planning to rely on AI making complete games.
To be honest, especially with very complex games like ours, I don’t even think this is the right or ethical path to follow, so whether this is true for the whole industry, I’m not the person to make those statements. I think everybody has to make those judgments on their own.
Development of The Witcher IV is currently ongoing at CDPR, with the studio recently stating that the game is tentatively set to launch in 2028. In addition, the company is also partnering with Fool’s Theory on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Songs of the Past, a new expansion that’s set to arrive next year, as well as a full remake of The Witcher.
In regards to The Witcher Remake, Nowakowski stated that development of that project is on the back burner as a result of “technological dependencies” on The Witcher IV, and as such is prioritising its work on Songs of the Past.
[Source – GamesRadar]