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Kasia Kuczyńska about D’jinni |
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Kasia Kuczyńska, The Witcher game designer
Soon, all the fans will be given a special toolset – “D’jinni”. In order to satisfy curiosity of those awaiting, Kasia Kuczyńska (designer at CD Projekt RED) gives away some essential info about “D’jinni”.
"Game designer’s job is not only inventing the plot of a computer game but most of all transferring their ideas into game mechanics, so that the story would be more interesting and clear for the player. D’jinni is a mod editor which allows creating a plot in the form of quests’ structure, dialogs, characters present in the game’s world, monsters, locations and various situations that the player could encounter on different levels of the game. It’s not an easy task, that’s why D’jinni is a complex and extensive tool and learning all of its functions took me a lot of time. As a matter of fact, even these days I discover some new, better way of implementing a given plot’s element. Through the whole process of creating “The Witcher” D’jinni was actually being improved, supplemented and altered becoming more and more perfect tool adjusted to our needs. Thanks to that every user will be given a chance of telling their story in a way they imagined and putting the players into their world. This effect is worth the effort put into mastering all the options offered by D’jinni."
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We invite all of you who are interested in the upcoming Djinni mod editor to visit the “Mod Editor Forum”. It’s a special place on our Board where the creators of “The Witcher” will gladly answer your questions and, in the future, will help you comprehend the mysteries of the toolset.
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December 2007 and January 2008 were a very successful period of time for The Witcher, which was a result of many awards given by gaming industry sites and magazines during summaries of the year 2007. The Witcher was found many times in the most important categories, including the “game of the year” title. The most valuable and prestigious awards for The Witcher are:
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PC Gamer US - 90%
PC Gamer (US): RPG of the Year
PC Guru (HU): RPG of the Year (Readers Choice), Best Score
PC Games (DE): RPG of the Year
Gamestar (HU): RPG of the Year
IGN.com: Best PC RPG
IGN.com: Best Original Score
IGN.com: Best Story (runner-up)
GameSpot.com: Best RPG Finalist
Shacknews.com: RPG of the Year
Gamespy.com: PC RPG of the Year
Gaming Heaven: Game of the Year
Voodoo Extreme: Best PC Exclusive Game
Voodoo Extreme: Best Computer Role Playing Game
GameZone.com: PC Game Of The Year 2007 Finalist
GameZone.com: Most Surprising Game (runner-up)
Gamebanshee.com: RPG of the Year
Playground.ru: Game of the Year, RPG of the Year, Best Music
Gameshark.com: Game of the Year (runner-up), PC Game of the Year (runner-up)
Krawall.de: RPG of the Year
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New place on the Board! |
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We encourage you to visit a new section on our Board – “Fan News” – where you can post news concerning the game or the community and comment already existing threads. You’re more than welcome to come and share the information you have!
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Fanfiction contest results |
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Fanfiction story contest has been finished and winners have been selected. In case of stories written in English language, authors of the best stories will receive 3 books “The last wish” by Andrzej Sapkowski. Our top story picks have been published and are available via community site.
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Starting with January issue of The Witcher Newsletter we will introduce you to some fans of “The Witcher” in a new section – “Fan spotlight”. The first person to be presented is Daerdin, well known to many people visiting our board.
Me and the Witcher. How did it all begin? I like Sapkowski’s works and I like good RPGs and everybody knows that Sapkowski + good RPG = The Witcher by CDPR ;)
I’m on this Board almost from the very beginning and I had the pleasure of observing practically the whole evolution of the game coming into existence. At the beginning Polish media were not interested that much in The Witcher so me and my buddy Yarpen decided to start a fansite where we could post translations of foreign (mostly English) articles, previews and reviews of “The Witcher”. That’s how witcher.phx.pl came into being. At present, I’m a moderator of the international side of the Official “The Witcher” Board, where – using some Eriash’s crazy ideas and our own – we do what we can to get the witcher community going.
In my private life I’m a teacher who put The One Ring on his finger two weeks ago and is very happy about that :)
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Name: Piotr Mazur
Board Nick: Daerdin
Age: 27
Place: Chełm, Poland
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We are very impressed with the recognition received by The Witcher in Russia, which is reflected with great overall sales results (currently the number of copies sold has exceeded 200 000) as well as with excellent notes, awards and honors, received by The Witcher.
The game has been honored, among all with the “Game of the Year” title at Playground.ru gaming site, as well as with number of awards, such as:
Best Computer Games #12, 98% (crown) - “Greatest role-playing game since Fallout 2”
Game Play #12 (editor’s choice), 4,5/5 – “Best Computer RPG of the year”
PC Games #12, 8.5/10 (game of the month)– “Masterpiece. Best RPG of the year.”
Fantasy World #12 (editor’s choice), 9.0/10 – “splendid debut of the young team, mostly pleasant surprise of the year and main candidate to be named “Best RPG of the year”
Game World Navigator #12 (editor’s choice), 9.1/10 – CD Projekt Red did impossible…they upgrade genre to the next step of quality… they did much more that just “the game based on the famous novel”
www.crpg.ru 9.1/10 – “Polish developers did the game with the soul which brings to the player lots of positive emotions…she gives a breath of fresh air.”
www.igromania.ru 4.8/5 – “CD Projekt RED did masterpiece, gigantic game, which can compete for the Best RPG of the year.”
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Kasia Kuczyńska, designer