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CD Projekt Red is building the Avengers of RPGs, adds 3 former Kingdom Come: Deliverance leads
CD Projekt Red has hired three senior developers from Kingdom Come: Deliverance studio Warhorse, adding experience in quests, open worlds and gameplay to the teams behind its role-playing games. Their appointments strengthen the studio’s expertise as it works on The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2, though their specific projects have not been confirmed.
Karel Kolmann, who worked on both Kingdom Come games, joined as a senior quest designer in November 2025. Zdeněk Glatz, a former lead level designer on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, became a senior open-world designer in May 2026; Zbyněk Zelinka, previously a lead technical designer, joined as a senior gameplay designer in October. Each had spent more than seven years at Warhorse.
In short
- CD Projekt Red hired three former Warhorse leads.
- Their roles span quests, open-world and gameplay design.
- Their work on upcoming games is not confirmed.
Explained simply
CD Projekt Red is a Polish video game studio best known for The Witcher and Cyberpunk role-playing games. These games combine character-led stories with large settings that players can explore and choices that can affect how events unfold.
Warhorse Studios is a Czech developer whose Kingdom Come: Deliverance games are historical role-playing games set in medieval Bohemia. Quest design shapes the missions and stories players encounter; level and open-world design shape the places they explore; gameplay design focuses on how the game works and feels to play.
The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 are planned entries in CD Projekt Red’s established series. The experience of developers from Warhorse is relevant because both studios make large role-playing games, although the new hires’ specific assignments have not been confirmed.