00:00Everyone remembers the launch of Cyberpunk 2077, but the developers CD Projekt Red have
00:04said The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 likely won't suffer from the same behind-the-scenes
00:08issues.
00:09And it's all because the studio finally sorted out a crucial, if unexciting, part of the
00:13production process.
00:15Documentation.
00:15CD Projekt Red's lead technical writer, Jaroslaw Draczynski, and senior technical writer Adrian
00:20Filnecek spoke about the company's evolving documentation efforts in a lengthy Digital
00:25Dragons panel attended by GamesRadar.
00:26The duo explained that CDPR has traditionally not documented its games very well, and Cyberpunk
00:322077 was perhaps the biggest victim of this.
00:35Filnecek says the game was a fresh star and a massive undertaking, one the devs thought
00:39they could tackle thanks to a new documentation tool called Confluence.
00:43However, the devs created more than 8,000 unwieldy pages of documentation, and as the project
00:48ballooned in size, maintaining those documents became a low priority.
00:51Mistakes were definitely made, but Filnecek says the future looks promising for us, and
00:56we learned our lesson.
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