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This week together with Philipp Weber, Acting Lead Quest Designer from CD Projekt RED, I have met Takemura and played two quests in his storyline: Down on the Street and Gimme Danger. Philipp played a key role in the design of Takemura’s quests, so he has offered a lot of interesting behind the scenes stories.
Cyberpunk 2077 is an open world RPG that I have co-created. As I love talking about design, storytelling, and psychology in games, I have started streaming on Twitch and discussing it all with my audience.
My goal is to share everything I have learned over a decade in the AAA games industry, openly exchange ideas, explain creative decisions and encourage the next generation of game designers and storytellers to create.
Socials of my guest:
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TWITTER ►► https://twitter.com/PhiWeber
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My socials:
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TWITCH ►► https://www.twitch.tv/pawesasko
TWITTER ►► https://twitter.com/PaweSasko
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Timestamps for your viewing experience:
0:00 – Music
04:51 – Stream starts
06:25 – Introducing Philipp Weber, Acting Lead Quest Designer from CD Projekt RED
09:52 – Back to playing the game
28:03 – Beginnings of Takemura’s character
34:08 – Staging of the scene between Oda and Takemura
35:30 – Making Takemura’s secret code work
36:60 – Ship with pieces of decorations for Parade
38:05 – The Hierophant card
40:25 – Kick-off meeting of the game project
42:34 – Cinematic Design implementing scene staining
43:40 – Not used voiceovers in the game
47:40 – Characters interrupting each other
47:50 – Complexity of non-linear stories
52:07 – Process of gaining Takemura’s trust
53:55 – The Coke Time
56:35 – Scene about Hideshi Hino
58:03 – Overaarching design of Cyberpunk 2077 game
1:00:03 – Meeting Hanako
1:03:38 – Takemura interacting with Hanako
1:06:00 – Birth of the idea about barges and Parade
1:7:00 – Small touches and interactions with Takemura
1:8:20 – Using city’s verticality for the quest
1:11:38 – Yorinobu’s plan
1:21:26 – Design fathers of Takemura
1:25:35 – Dealing with creating block
1:27:35 – First text messages from Takemura
1:31:45 – Implementing shards in the quests
1:33:00 – Talking to Karim
1:39:55 – In-frame montage
1:45:50 – Scaling down Quests, when needed
1:49:05 – Creativity with budget or tech limitations
1:57:15 – Takemura call’s about
1:58:10 – Replacing quests and stories
2:00:55 – Defining boundaries of fan service
2:03:30 – Responsibility of the designer
2:04:30 – Takemura talking with police
2:07:20 – Depicting Takemura in uncomfortable situations
2:10:20 – Role of security room in the Quest’s flow
2:12:10 – Having food with Takemura
2:20:15 – Changing staging mid-scene
2:21:20 – Peaceful path in Industrial Park
2:25:50 – Role of micro-acting
2:27:30 – Takemura ordering pizza for V
2:28:00 – Standing on any side of takemura
2:29:30 – Takemura uses Militech tech
2:31:05 – Militech’s angle in Industrial Park
2:35:00 – Takemura sharing his past
2:37:50 – Dirty Designer’s tricks in scene with Takemura
2:39:50 – Symbolism of dog and cat
2:43:43 – Thank you for Philipp joining us
2:48:20 – Story behind the “taxi” feature
2:49:30 – Approaching Industrial Park
2:50:30 – Art direction of Cyberpunk
2:58:58 – Shootout in Industrial Park
3:02:36 – Design of encoutern in Industrial Park
3:05:00 – Thought on future Quest Design
3:11:00 – Building entertainment
3:12:38 – Providing player with custom gear
3:15:40 – My next dream game
3:18:20 – Investing in the team
3:25:20 – Environmental Storytelling
3:27:40 – Roof opening in Industrial Park
3:32:25 – Post-stream Questions
3:40:22 – Stream ending
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Never clicked that fast in my life🤓
Thank you much for joining Philipp and me on the stream focused on Takemura and his storyline! <3
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I missed the stream so this is great, thanks guys! Are we doing anything special for the 1 year release anniversary, Pawel?
Hallo wie geht's 🇨🇭✌️🙃
That stream was just wow… I enjoy meme reviews and so on a lot but the "classic" stream with a guest such as Philipp is just great
One of the best streams so far! Stream focused on my favourite storyline and a lot of interesting cyberpunk backstage stuff. I hope to see more open guests like Philipp. Keep up good work Paweł!
Haha, Pawel your intros sound so epic with the Cyberpunk music playing in the background while you’re speaking. It reminds me of sporting events and their announcers 😂🤣
Best episode yet.
4:48 – Intro transition was on point! Haha! 😀 Got me hyped for the stream, that's for sure! 😉 I always have these streams in the background on Mondays while I'm at work, since I always miss the Sunday live streams..
Now, this might be impossible to pull off, but try to get Keanu Reeves on stream for Cyberpunk 2077's 1 year anniversary! Having guests does indeed bring a refreshing dynamic to the streams, and this was a really good stream with lots of insight.
P.S. – You're getting pretty good at the game now…
or is it because you finally decided to use crafting and actually upgrade your gear!? Lol 🙂
you guys left something out, there is a way to have judy see takemura. you can get them wthin 10-15 feet from each other and judy sees you getting out of takemuras van after you meet Oda
This stream was really interesting, thanks to both you and Philipp and also all the REDs in chat!
(Just a little note, you wrote "Hanako" in the timestamps instead of Wakako ahfhfh)
I hope you guys have a NMS comeback plan in the works because this game is an untapped gold mine waiting to be cracked open to ignore it is like how EA games abandoned Anthem and Mass Effect Andromeda…
You get a much deeper convo with the monks if you do the rescue in a non-lethal fashion. Its really cool!
when your music crew presented ponpon shit to the team, that just HAD to be a really funny day 😂
Really interesting detail about the scene with Karim I just found out: In my playthrough Johnny actually didn't troll me when I asked him about how his gig went, he gave me the right answer straight away. I assume this is somehow dependent on earlier conversations you have with him.
Daddymura 👑
nice stream, is 1.4 planned for the 1 year anniversary? that would be glorious !!
Looks like Pawel confused Hanako with Wakako when making timestamps 🙂
2:50:30 Might I add… about the "green tint" .. As Environment / Lighting Artist, I also agree and understand the decision of adding this effect, likely done through post-process, right? In fact, I've specifically studied colour theory and emotion of colours during my time at university for one of my projects. To me, it gives the game a more cinematic, gritty / uneasy feeling, perfect for a Cyberpunk world. It's also the reason why the game uses heavy Chromatic Aberration, Lens Flare and Film Grain (effects which might annoy some people, but I absolutely think they add much needed subtle elements to the game's cinematic atmosphere which really fit the genre!)
As some people have said in the chat, it's the classic Matrix vibe, and.. surprise, surprise… Keanu Reeves is also in this game. Coincidence? 🙂 Was this green tint intentional because of that? Most likely… But, if anything, from a colour-grading perspective, it also lets you see more detail in darker areas, which is further enhanced by a HDR display. People can create all these silly ReShades that "fix" the green tint (looking at you, Tyler McVicker LOL!), by adding more contrast, etc… but all they're doing is crushing black-levels and harming the original artistic direction / colours which was professionally graded and tested during production. So, yes, Pawel! I agree with you, because it's also what I would have done, personally!
I love the game. Voted two times for Cyberpunk 2077 at Game Awards 2021. =)
Its good to see CDPR going back to the "coming when it's ready" approach.
I think its always better to wait some more month and let you guys work in a good environment so everyone is going to be happy at the end.
Keep up the awesome and beautiful work. You guys are awesome.
The stream was awesome! Thank you and Philipp for streaming!
Takemura's wait was finally over! I have to say he still didn't wait for that long, I made him wait for much longer while completing all the side quests 😀 But he's amazingly patient.
Thanks again for finding the time for streaming and uploading here, the stories about making the game are always interesting! May you and the team have a good week!
Just wanted to thank you, Phillip, and Shimon again. That was a lovely stream and I learned so much. You've become essential viewing (well, listening, I play as I listen) on a Sunday evening. Nice one.