CD Projekt RED Working on Mobile Game, Witcher 3 Progress Report

A member of the NeoGAF forums has translated some interesting info from CD Projekt RED’s financial report, which includes news of the development of a mobile game meant to be released this year, with help from an external studio.

– 2 mobile titles: The Witcher Adventure Game and a new multiplatform project.
– Together with an external development studio we are working multiplatform mobile game, which uses advanced features of tablets and smartphones
– We are entering a completely new territory, both in terms of gameplay and business model
– Work on the project began over a year ago, independently from TW3 and Cyberpunk 2077.
– The game will be announced together with beta sign-up.
– Commercial release this year.

There’s also some interesting info on the development progress on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and some additional reasons for the title’s delay:

– Dialogue lines are closed & implemented
– They are currently recording voice overs for each language version of the game
– The world of the game is completed – locations are finished, all important gameplay mechanics are already implemented
– Graphic assets and animations are nearing completion
– The game can already be played in full
– REDengine 3 supports all 3 platforms
– The physical elements of the collector’s edition are in production

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The reasoning behind 2015 release:

– Less competition
– Improved effectiveness of marketing campaign targeted at aware gamers and not random gift-buyers.
– Better polished game: the last 20% of time stands for 80% of the game’s attractiveness.
– More new-gen consoles on the market = more customers