CD Projekt Red's Pawel Sasko, who's now the associate game director on Cyberpunk 2, has explained how a beetroot farmer in Australia came to his attention and was subsequently moved to Poland to work on The Witcher 4.
In an extensive interview with Flow Games, Sasko advised aspiring game developers to "go and learn how to mod" because about half of the people making quests for Cyberpunk 2 right now are former modders. In the same interview, he told an inspiring story about senior quest designer Eero Varendi, who started out making mods in his evenings after toiling lands for beetroot. Varendi first caught Sasko's attention "seven or eight years ago" when a YouTube video was published showing The Witcher 1's prologue in The Witcher 3 thanks to the miracle of mods.
