Cyberpunk creator opens up about working with CD Projekt Red

Cyberpunk' creator Mike Pondsmith says working on Cyberpunk 2077 was like sharing a baby with CD Projekt Red.

The designer — who was behind the RPG tabletop game — admitted there was a bit of a trade-off between the developer and publisher R. Talsorian Games, but he explained the relationship worked because there was a give and take with both teams.

He told Eurogamer: "It's not like I handed the baby to them and said I'll never see it again. It was more like, okay well you babysit the baby for a while and then I babysit the baby and we, you know, trade back and forth. And if I catch him smoking it's your fault."

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Pondsmith added it was a "collaboration", and he once sent them back to the drawing board after seeing gun designs looking like they were too influenced by Star Wars.

He explained: "And the guns were these silver Star Wars-y things and I went no, Cyberpunk guns don't look like that. You know, they're large, they're black, they're brutal, they have rails, they have this, they have that, and so I literally had a long discussion with all of the weapons guys and a bunch of people in the studio.

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"They went out and built a wall of real-world guns, which is awesome I'd like to point out, and they had begun to see why the guns in our game work because they're built in a real-world context, not a science fiction context.

"You know almost everything we do, we do really solid research on and make sure it works. So what that got us were the guns we're seeing now. They go, 'Yeah this is an acceptable idea for what a gun would be.' So that's a collaborative thing."