Tymon Smektała

Dying Light: The Beast's release date has been moved forward by one whole day
Hope you didn't schedule time off for the launch.
PC Gamer 2 min read
"If everything is the same, nothing stands out" – How lead devs for Silent Hill f and Dying Light: The Beast are putting the horror back in survival horror
Horror Special | "We face our own set of expectations and our players are very strict about it"
GamesRadar 8 min read
Dying Light: The Beast dev defends $60 price because "in every metric" the DLC-turned-game is "bigger, denser, and more advanced than we initially assumed"
"Mission count, minutes of cut-scene, unique characters, new enemy designs, additional content, collectibles, secrets, Easter eggs, you name it"
GamesRadar 2 min read
Dying Light: The Beast will have guns that feel "on par with melee combat," as Techland struggles to solve the series' "complicated" relationship with firearms
Dying Light's franchise director is "really proud" of how the gunplay has turned out
GamesRadar 3 min read
Dying Light franchise director says The Beast's final mission leaves you no choice, and that's a good thing: "You shouldn't be saying what's canon and what's not"
Techland wants "full control over what we do with each and every next Dying Light game"
GamesRadar 2 min read
Dying Light: The Beast's open world is "a secret mystery box" where "very f*cked up things" happen, but I'm most intrigued by the Stranger Things vibes
Horror Special | Franchise director Tymon Smektała weighs in on Dying Light: The Beast's "creepy" supernatural undertones
GamesRadar 6 min read
2025 already belongs to double-A games, and Dying Light: The Beast is helping Clair Obscur prove it – "Do you really want to play every game for 100 hours?"
Horror Special | Techland's Tymon Smektała got me thinking, and the double and triple-A divide is more pointless than ever
GamesRadar 5 min read
Dying Light: The Beast is more than a homecoming for Kyle Crane – "For us, this is Dying Light 3"
Horror Special | Delving into the belly of Beast Mode with Techland's Dying Light franchise director, Tymon Smektała
GamesRadar 7 min read
Dying Light: The Beast hands-on preview: A stunning survival horror character study that left me bloody and breathless
Horror Special | I played 4 hours of Dying Light: The Beast and it's already my favorite Dying Light game ever
GamesRadar 11 min read
Whoa, this 10 year old game is getting a massive new update this week — I'm finally going back to finish it after all this time
A full decade after its release, Dying Light — Techland's beloved 2015 zombie action game — is getting a huge new update this week. Here's what's coming.
Windows Central 5 min read