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{{Short description|Polish video game developer}}
{{Infobox company
|name = Metropolis Software
|logo = Metropolis Software logo.png
|type = [[Division (business)|Division]] of [[CD Projekt]]
|founder = {{unbulleted list|Adrian Chmielarz|Grzegorz Miechowski}}
|founded = [[Warsaw]], Poland ({{Start date|1992}})
|industry = [[Video game industry|Video games]]
|parent = [[CD Projekt]] (2008–2009)
|defunct = {{End date|2009}}
}}
'''Metropolis Software''' was a Polish [[video game developer]] founded in 1992<ref name=NGen35>{{cite magazine |title=NG Alphas: Metropolis |magazine=[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]]|issue=35 |publisher=[[Imagine Media]] |date=November 1997|pages=86–89}}</ref> by high school friends [[Adrian Chmielarz]] and Grzegorz Miechowski. The studio gained success in Europe with their titles.

By the end of 1997, Metropolis had expanded to included 20 full-time employees.<ref name=NGen35/> Around 2002, a personal conflict between Chmielarz and Miechowski led to Chmielarz to leave the company. A few months later, Chmielarz founded [[People Can Fly]], along with some other staff from Metropolis.<ref name="astronauts">{{cite web | title = The Astronauts: A Polish Team Gets Small to Think Bigger | url = https://www.polygon.com/features/2014/7/16/5891551/the-astronauts-adrian-chmielarz | first = Charlie | last = Hall | date = 16 July 2014 | access-date = 8 December 2017 | work = [[Polygon (website)|Polygon]] }}</ref> Miechowski continued to run Metropolis. In 2008, the studio was bought by [[CD Projekt]],<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://uk.ign.com/articles/2008/02/18/metropolis-joins-cd-projekt-group|title = Metropolis Joins CD Projekt Group|date = 18 February 2008|access-date = 2 March 2015|website = |publisher = IGN|last = |first = }}</ref> and closed in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.gamebanshee.com/news/95508-cd-projekt-shuts-down-metropolis-software.html|title = CD Projekt Shuts Down Metropolis Software|date = 26 October 2009|access-date = 2 March 2015|website = GameBanshee|publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref> In October 2010, former CD Projekt and Metropolis Software developers announced the formation of [[11 bit studios]], a game development house with Miechowski as managing director.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/cd-projekt-metropolis-veterans-launch-11-bit-studios | title = CD Projekt, Metropolis Veterans Launch 11 Bit Studios | first = Eric | last = Caloini | date = 7 October 2010 | access-date = 10 December 2017 | work = [[Gamasutra]] }}</ref>

Metropolis secured a license to develop a video game based on [[Andrzej Sapkowski]]'s ''[[The Witcher]]'' series around 1997.<ref name=NGen35/> According to Chmielarz, Sapkowski had little interest in the game, only seeing the monetary value of the license, giving Metropolis freedom to develop as they saw fit. The company got as far as completing one playable level, producing press material, and securing a publisher [[TopWare]], but at the time, Metropolis was also working on three other titles. Between these, difficulties with the game, and TopWare's concern that the Slavic nature of the source material may not have international appeal, the project was shelved. Chmielarz said that the project was never officially cancelled, but got lost among the other work they were doing by 1999.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-06-16-the-witcher-game-that-never-was | title = The Witcher game that never was | first = Robert | last =Purchase | date = 19 May 2015 | access-date = 10 December 2017 | work = [[Eurogamer]] }}</ref> CD Projekt later acquired the rights for ''The Witcher'' to develop ''[[The Witcher (video game)|The Witcher]]'' (2007).<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.pcgamesn.com/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt/the-witcher-rights-cost | title = The Witcher rights cost CD Projekt a lot less than you might think | first = Richard | last =Scott-Jones | date = 2 June 2017 | access-date = 10 December 2017 | work = [[PCGamesN]] }}</ref>

== Games ==
* ''[[Tajemnica Statuetki]]'' (1993)
* ''[[Teenagent]]'' (1994)
* ''[[Blaster!]] /'' ''Katharsis'' (1997)
* ''[[The Prince and the Coward]] /'' ''Książę i tchórz'' (1998)
* ''Robo Rumble /'' ''RoBoRumble /'' ''Reflux'' (1998)
* ''[[Gorky 17]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Archangel (video game)|Archangel]]'' (2002)
* ''Gorky Zero: Beyond Honor / Gorky Zero: Fabryka niewolników'' (2003)
* ''Gorky Zero 2: Aurora Watching'' (2004)
* ''Ski Jumping 2006 /'' ''Skoki narciarskie 2006'' (2005)
* ''[[Infernal (video game)|Infernal]]'' (2007)
* ''They'' (cancelled)
* ''[[The Witcher (video game)#Development|The Witcher]] / Wiedźmin'' (cancelled)

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{official website|https://web.archive.org/web/19970418032320/http://www.metropolis.com.pl/}} (archived)

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[[Category:CD Projekt]]
[[Category:Video game development companies]]
[[Category:Video game companies established in 1992]]
[[Category:Video game companies disestablished in 2009]]
[[Category:Defunct video game companies of Poland]]
[[Category:Companies based in Warsaw]]

Metropolis Software - Revision history

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