Speaking with the Official PlayStation Magazine (September 2018, issue 152), Stanisław Święcicki, who's been a writer at CD Projekt RED since 2013, talked about the writing team size for Cyberpunk 2077 and the creative process behind it.

It's around eight to ten people. Ten at the moment. So, it's quite a team.

At the beginning it's like all the team sort and on a higher level it's decided what's the direction. And then we come up with sort of a story outline so to speak - a very bird's eye view of how the story progresses. Narrative is key at CD Projekt RED. I like to say narrative is key, rather than story is key. Because it all comes down to all the narrative teams really working closely.

Every department has a different focus: whether everything is logical, whether it works as levels, how good the cinematics and the mood of the scene is. Then it comes back to us and we organically change the scenes in that way, as the other teams suggest. We write the dialogue, it comes back to us again. So, it's really a multilayered process.

We use the mythos as a strong road sign for us in terms of mood and atmosphere because we're making a similar universe to what you`ve seen in 2020, but we are giving ourselves the creative freedom to do major tweaks to what the universe is, and what rules it has.

That's sort of needed because Cyberpunk 2020, which I played as a role-playing game, was pen-and-paper right? So we're making a very different game over here. But for us it's really about the mood and what's important about the world.