At this year's summer game festival, foreign media interviewed Tymon Smektala, the director of the series "Disappearance" and discussed the upcoming game "Disappearance: Sleeping Beast".During the interview, Tymon Smektala told foreign media WCCF that Techland will release games more frequently starting with "The Deserted Light: The Sleeping Beast", shortening the average development cycle, and plans to launch a new work (medium size?) every 3-4 years, rather than spending a long time creating 3A games like before.

He said that "The Deserting Light" 1 and 2 have been developed for 7 years, so slightly different development strategies are adopted in the future.

"As developers, we want to be aware of this, too. Because both Downing Light 1 and Downing Light 2 took seven years to produce. We think that if the approach is slightly different and the focus is clearer, we can release the game more frequently. We will probably be in three to four years at the moment, and I think Downing Light: The Hidden Beast is the first step in that direction."

In addition, Tymon Smektala defended the game "Defying Light: The Hidden Beast", which was originally planned to be the DLC of "Defying Light 2".

He said: "I understand why some players think, "Oh, it was just a small DLC at the beginning, but now it's full price, they just want to sell it as the next game."But in fact, this is Kyle Crane's return. The scale of the campaign is about the same as the previous game, and I think it's really the best Deserting Light game we've ever made."

"The Deserted Light 2" is released in February 2022. "The Deserted Light: The Hidden Beast" is scheduled to be released on August 23, 2025, with a gap of three and a half years.More importantly, this strategy is in sharp contrast to the conventional 3A game development cycle, which is increasingly long.Today, it takes an average of five years or even longer to complete a 3A game, provided that there are no major problems during the entire development process.