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Talk Tech: The Witcher 2

Apropos of nothing, I've joined the rest of RPS in becoming deeply excited about The Witcher 2. Look at it! Swords, hair, grass. Great. Last month Jim posted a nine minute video of CD Projekt talking about the tech behind the game, and today they've released part 2, which awaits you beneath the jump. At one point they use the word "polish", which I of course read as "Polish", in the context that they would "Polish" their game engine. That was weird.

Clearly the best line in the video is this:

"That's why we chose to use middleware- that is, technology from internal companies. One of them is the Path Engine. It is a navigation library, allowing a drunkard to merrily stroll from the inn to his home."

CD Projekt: Takin' Care of Drunkards since 1994.

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Quintin Smith: Quinns was one of the first writers to join Rock Paper Shotgun after its founding in 2007, and he stayed with the site until 2011 (though he carried on writing freelance articles well beyond that). These days, you can find him talking about tabletop board games over on Shut Up And Sit Down, or doing proper grown-up journalism with the folks at People Make Games.
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