I Asked Dawnwalker's Quest Designer Why the Clock Exists | FULL INTERVIEW

Patryk Fijałkowski, Senior Quest Designer at Rebel Wolves, on The Blood of Dawnwalker's 30-day time system: why the clock exists, why it isn't real time, and the version they built first and threw away. Recorded at the studio in Poland before launch, so none of this is a reaction to reviews. We also get into why the game doesn't separate main quests from side quests, how you can kill almost anyone in the world and still finish the story, and what happened when the day/night cycle broke one of the game's biggest quests. Full interview, uncut. This expedition is sponsored by Into the AM. Grab the Dark Dominion shirt featuring Corvin Castle at intotheam.com with code LFN10 for 10% off: https://www.intotheam.com/lfndarkdomi... 0:00 "I hate time limits, too" 0:32 What this interview is 1:14 Meet Patryk Fijałkowski 1:38 The urgency problem with modern RPGs 4:28 Designing quests when the player can break everything 7:34 Why the map is deliberately small 11:10 The Cathedral quest 14:09 Time as a resource, not a countdown 15:47 Skyrim, Gwent, and losing the plot 16:24 Keeping players on track without handholding 19:26 Why there's no "main quest" 20:16 When the time system broke the Cathedral 23:21 The Deacon fix 23:56 Into the AM 24:36 The real-time version they scrapped 27:09 Making sure you always know the clock moved 28:45 Paper design, and why paper lies 33:14 What Dawnwalker will be remembered for 36:07 How much can you see in one playthrough? 37:20 The stories players will tell The Blood of Dawnwalker is out now on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. Developed by Rebel Wolves, published by Bandai Namco. Interview by Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles. Shot on location in Warsaw, Poland.