Next wave of speakers - Digital Dragons 2020!

19 sierpnia 2020

This year’s Digital Dragons will be the 9th edition of the conference organised by Kraków Technology Park. It will take place online from the 15th to 18th of September and among the notable speakers are Darkes Dungeon creator Chris Bourassa, Randy Varnell Borderlands creator. Amanda Kruse from Hivemind, and a strong representative from Remedy. Now, this noble group joins Garry Schyman, BioShocks score creator, Austin Wintory, responsible for the music to Journey and Banner Saga.

Not much time left to the leading gaming industry event. Although the conference is going online, it will be filled with knowledgeable lectures, and great discussion panels, conducted by gaming dev industry specialists and professionals from all around the world. As a reminder, the talks will take place in two sessions - morning and evening, to cover a wide range of timezones, and after each session, there will be a discussion panel.

In creating this year's Digital Dragons program we tried to invite speakers from large studios creating AAA games, on the one hand, and on the other hand, to provide knowledge useful for smaller, indie devs. The program also includes talks and panels related to the pandemic and its impact on the games industry - especially interesting are the discussion panels related to investments and marketing of games in the COVID-19 era"

Maciej Śliwiński programme coordinator

Austin Wintory will attend this year’s Digital Dragons. Renowned for his Journey music, which won him a BAFTAs, among other awards and nominations. During the event, he will have a lecture about various interactive music systems.

Garry Schuman is another composer at the conference. His music for BioShock series gathered nominations and awards. Last years he worked on Guild Wars 2 and Middle-earth series. He will expand on the art and craft of composing a music score for games.

Piotr Bajraszewski from 11 bit studios, launched more than 20 products on every possible platform, dozens of updates and hundreds of discounts. Some of them went extremely well and some landed hard. will share examples of both and explain what he has learned from it.

Maria Borys-Piątkowska and Sławomir Uliasz form Flying Wild Hog we’ll speak about changes in the narrative design role. From delivering dialogues and provide in-game text to being involved at the beginning of the process to ensure that Story and Gameplay come abreast from the premise to production.

On the 16th of September, there is a panel titled “Securing investment during a world in Lockdown” with Fernando Rizo (Middle Wolf), Mitsuo Hirakawa (Irregular Corporation), Ryan Donaldson (Studio Capital Management) - The Do's and Don'ts - panel. Hosted by Bobby Wertheim (SEGA). It will be an interesting one considering the changes in the world during 2020.

The Main Partner of Digital Dragons is Małopolska Region: the regional authorities implementing a range of projects that serve innovation and economic development of Małopolska, and its attractiveness for investors. Małopolska is a perfect location for running business, particularly based on new technologies.

Full programme can be seen here.

Digital Dragons is the leading game industry event in Central Europe. Each year it attracts specialists, professionals, developers from all around the world. Last year Digital Dragons gathered 2000 participants from 650 companies coming from 48 countries. Over 100 speakers contributed 83 lectures full of insightful knowledge and case studies grounded in the expert know-how.

Tickets are availble on digitaldragons.pl.