Ever wondered what the author of The Witcher books thinks about the games?
The Witcher fantasy began long before the excellent video games made by Polish studio CD Projekt Red. The Witcher was originally a short story published in a Polish fantasy magazine in 1986. Today The Witcher series encompasses three collections of short stories and five novels. Their 64-year-old author Andrzej Sapkowski has become one of Poland’s most distinguished fantasy literary icons.On the surface it’s a wonderful marriage of Polish creativity: CD Projekt Red has a wealth of source material to draw from, and Sapkowski benefits from exposure to a new international audience. That’s why I assumed Sapkowski would be an ardent supporter of video games.But that illusion shattered when Eurogamer Poland discovered that Andrzej Sapkowski didn’t really like video games much at all.Read more…
