Phantom Liberty's Dogtown Is "A Collage Of References"

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CD Projekt Pink obtained artistic with Dogtown, creating a novel area with influences from Nicaragua and Mexican structure.
Lead designer Pawel Sasko discusses the imaginative and prescient behind Dogtown, aiming to present it its personal identification separate from Night time Metropolis.

When CD Projekt Pink started engaged on Cyberpunk 2077, it already had a basis to work with due to the table-top RPG during which the sport was based mostly on. This meant the core fundamentals of the neon-kissed streets of Night time Metropolis have been already in place due to Cyberpunk 2020’s creator, Mike Pondsmith.

Pondsmith has already gone on file previously to say that the idea of Nighty Metropolis was based mostly on “a fusion of San Francisco and ghetto LA,” together with the likes of Singapore, Sao Paulo Brasil, Beijing, and extra. That is to not say that CD Projekt Pink did not add its personal flare to this futuristic metropolis although, as most of the Tokyo influences have been added by the studio, in line with Pondsmith.

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However when it got here to creating Dogtown, a brand-new area included in Cyberpunk 2077’s solely enlargement, Phantom Liberty, it was all right down to CD Projekt Pink to get artistic.

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DualShockers not too long ago had the chance to sit down down with Pawel Sasko, who was the lead quest designer for Cyberpunk 2077 and now affiliate sport director for its upcoming sequel. Throughout our interview with Sasko, we requested him if CD Projekt Pink had any specific influences when it got here to the design of Phantom Liberty’s Dogtown.

“We did plenty of analysis,” Sasko instructed DualShockers. “[We looked] particularly at artwork references when constructing Dogtown. We have been attempting to make it possible for we supplied one thing that might be distinctive, totally different, particular for the participant.”

Sasko went on to elucidate that the aim behind Dogtown was to make the participant really feel like they have been not in Night time Metropolis. Whereas there are nonetheless loads of references and components to Night time Metropolis, CD Projekt Pink wished Dogtown to have “its personal identification.”

“It’s a collage of references. There have been components of Nicaragua, components of favelas, and components of Mexican structure,” Sasko mentioned. “So these have been in all probability the largest influences for us, the visible ones. Generally you’ve a really clear reference to a singular location, on this case, it’s a collage.”

The lead quest designer famous that it wasn’t at all times one thing particular that impressed the group, because it may have been a single avenue or constructing that impressed them. “The entire of Dogtown was constructed out of references that we hadn’t used earlier than. There’s many issues there, we wished to indicate the historical past of Dogtown, the way it was constructed, the way it was deserted, how Kurt Hansen constructed this type of like a army authorities.”

Make certain to take a look at our full interview with Sasko to see the developer focus on the sport’s monumental rise and the studio’s darkest days.