The Witcher - Blog Update @ IGN

A new entry to the official Witcher blog at IGN tells the second part of the tale of starting the development.  Things didn't go easily at first:

We planned several stages of conquering the world. First, we wanted to create a technological demo of the game. Then we planned asking professional fantasy authors to write the full screenplay (greetings to Jacek Komuda and Maciej Jurewicz!). After a year’s work these tasks were completed. In February 2003 we had a complete technological demo based on the engine we wanted to use in the conversion of BG: DA, a hefty design.doc and the first version of the screenplay. Armed in the above we set out on a tour to western publishers. Convinced we were in possession of an unpolished diamond we held exactly 12 meetings with the biggest companies. We had no idea what to expect. We came back to Warsaw waiting for their response. We waited and waited. And out of those 12 companies only 2 or 3 contacted us… to thank us for the presentations. That’s all.