Digital Dragons is the largest business conference dedicated to digital entertainment in Central Europe. Its mission is extensive promotion of the Polish games industry, the most vibrantly developing sector of digital entertainment. Every year, the Digital Dragons conference attracts over 1500 participants, including representatives of hundreds of businesses from the video games sector from all over the world, which makes it a perfect opportunity to launch business contacts, recruit staff, promote products and gain expert knowledge in video games production in fields ranging from programming to marketing, business models and promotion.

During the Digital Dragons, a jury composed of the leading journalists of the sector awards the Digital Dragon statuettes to the best Polish productions of the previous year. Another strong suit of the conference is the opportunity to present your game concepts to investors during few-minute- long individual meetings, and to the general public during the Indie Showcase competition.

Nominees to Digital Dragons Awards announced

Nominations to the most prestigious award in the Polish games sector have been announced. The Dragon Eggs of the Digital Dragons will be presented during the Awards Ceremony Gala to the best Polish productions of 2017 and to the best foreign game. Nominations come directly from within the Polish gamedev sector, and have been submitted online by developers.

This year, the Digital Dragons Awards will be presented in six categories: Best Polish Game, Best Polish Game Art, Best Polish Game Design, Best Polish Game Soundtrack, Best Polish Mobile Game, and Best Foreign Game.

Nominees:

Best Polish Game of 2017

• Beat Cop (Pixel Crow)
• Darkwood (Acid Wizard Studio)
• Observer (Bloober Team)
• RUINER (Reikon Games)
• Seven: The Days Long Gone (Fool’s Theory)

Best Polish Game Design of 2017

• 911 Operator (Jutsu Games)
• Beat Cop (Pixel Crow)
• Darkwood (Acid Wizard Studio)
• RUINER (Reikon Games)
• Seven: The Days Long Gone (Fool’s Theory)

Best Polish Game Art of 2017

• Beat Cop (Pixel Crow)
• Eventide 3: Dziedzictwo Legend (The House of Fables)
• Observer (Bloober Team)
• RUINER (Reikon Games)
• Seven: The Days Long Gone (Fool’s Theory)

Best Polish Soundtrack of 2017

• Beat Cop (Pixel Crow)
• Get Even (The Farm 51)
• Observer (Bloober Team)
• RUINER (Reikon Games)
• Seven: The Days Long Gone (Fool’s Theory)

Best Polish Mobile Game of 2017

• 60 Seconds! Atomic Adventure (Robot Gentleman)
• 911 Operator (Jutsu Games)
• Bladebound: hack and slash RPG (Artifex Mundi)
• Oh...Sir! The Hollywood Roast (Vile Monarch)
• Questland: Turn Based RPG (Gamesture)

Best Foreign Game of 2017

• Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
• Horizon: Zero Dawn
• Nier: Automata
• PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

The Jury of the competition will select the best games of 2017 from among the nominees. Traditionally, the Jury are representatives of leading Polish games and tech media: Łukasz Gołąbiowski (Onet GRY), Krystian Smoszna (GRY-OnLine.pl), Piotr Mańkowski (PIXEL), Michał Król (Graczpospolita.pl), Mariusz Borkowski (gamemusic.pl), Tomasz Drabik, Mateusz Witczak (CD Action), Marta Raczyńska (Zajegranie), and Paweł Węgrzyn (Jagiellonian University, TVGRY).

The winning developers will be presented with the statutes at the ICE Kraków Congress Centre during the Digital Dragons Awards Gala, crowning the first day of the Digital Dragons conference on 21 May 2018.

However, Digital Dragon is not the unique event of the Video Game branch in Poland. The Game Industry Conference takes place alongside the Poznan Game Arena, one of the most important and largest game expos in Europe. Over 71 000 visitors enjoy the show by testing games and hardware from more than 130 expositors.

The two events are the best place to meet most of the people from the Polish Game Industry. 

Watch more about Polish Game Industry and Game Industry Conference which will take place in Poznań between 11 and 14 October, 2018.

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With thanks to the Digital Dragons