Random Former Beetroot Farmer Currently Senior CDPR Dev on The Witcher Sequel
Bluey, beets, Battlestar Galactica.
While many developers enter the gaming industry by going to school to learn how to code, others take a more circuitous route. CD Projekt Red has an eye for talent, and game director Pawel Sasko has recounted the tale of how an Estonian beetroot farmer in Australia became a senior developer on codename Polaris, the currently in-development sequel to The Witcher.
In an interview with Flow Games (thanks, GamesRadar+), Sasko revealed that around half of CDPR staff currently working on quests for the next Cyberpunk are former modders. This spurred on the globe-trotting tale of how Eero Varendi came to work at the studio, initially catching Sasko's attention from a world away.
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