Playing Around – Behind the Witcher

It’s been 10 years since The Witcher video game was released. It’s an RPG (based on a series of novels by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski) set in a medieval world. The main character is, not surprisingly, a Witcher, which is a monster hunter with supernatural powers. It’s been popular enough to not only get high ratings, but also two follow-up games. And now, on its tenth anniversary, there’s a documentary. 

The Polish gaming site arhn.eu spent a year working on “White Wolf: The History of the Witcher Computer,” (the title is a translation provided on the website) an almost two-hour long behind the scenes look at how the story was developed from the pages of the novels to the games we know today. Noted as the “largest project in the history of the arhn.eu website,” the documentary was partially funded by fans. It covers the long and often difficult road in getting The Witcher created, including some interesting details on character development from Sapkowski himself.

Though the film is entirely in Polish, it has English subtitles. It’s available on the arhn.eu website (where it’s embedded from YouTube) or you can go directly to YouTube for it.

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