Digital Dragons Awards are prestigious gaming industry awards awarded in six categories: Best Polish Game, Best Polish Game Design, Best Polish Game Art, Best Polish Mobile Game and Best Polish Game Original Soundtrack. Polish developers also choose the nominees for Best Foreign Game.
Like every year, the gamedev community is involved in the selection of nominations, bringing together industry specialists and players. This year, 83 games from Poland and 12 soundtracks were on the shortlist prepared by the organizers. 26 foreign titles were proposed by voters. 163 individual voters from over 100 studios, media, and organizations took part in the process.
2020 was extremely difficult, but the gaming industry did not disappoint us: this year's nominations show how diverse and good domestic titles are. We have more and more studios whose works are worth waiting for. I am extremely curious about the final result of the jury's vote.
Jacek Wandzel, Indie Games Coordinator, supervising DD Awards
112 Operator (Jutsu Games), Shing! (Mass Creation) and Ghostrunner (One More Level) have been nominated in four categories
112 Operator is a crisis management symulator from Jutsu Games – the successor to their debut, 911 Operator, released in 2017. Ghostrunner is the latest game by One More Level, who previously made God’s Trigger, nominated to Digital Dragons Awards 2019. The titular Ghostrunner is a cybernetic ninja who traverses a dystopic, cyberpunk city to stop a mad scientist controlling humanity.
Shing! is the latest game from Mass Creation, a Warsaw-based studio responsible for Run Like Hell! and Draw Slasher. It’s a beat’em up invoking the genre’s classic titles such as Streets of Rage, where up to 4 players travel through levels and fight enemies. It received a special commendation from Ustatkowany Gracz at Digital Dragons Indie Showcase in 2019 and it was featured at Indie Celebration 2020.
Three nominations for Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt RED) and Carrion (Phobia Game Studio)
The latest game from the creators of the Witcher trilogy. Cyberpunk 2077 takes place in a dystopic universe known from the tabletop role playing game Cyberpunk by Mike Pondsmith, where cities are ruled by megacorporations. In the game you play as the mercenary V, who tries their luck in Night City – after a failed heist, V finds themselves in a complicated web of intrigue, at the center of which is the cybernetic construct of musician and terrorist Johnny Silverhand (played by Keanu Reeves), who begins living in their head.
Carrion presents a situation straight from ‘70s and ‘80s science-fiction horror cult classics such as John Carpenters „The Thing” or Ridley Scott’s „Alien” with a small, but very meaningful twist: this time you’re the cosmic monster hunting humans. Everything within the Metroidvania framework: a platform game focused on exploration, where accessing new locations is bound to discovering powers and abilities.
See the full list of Nominees:
Best Polish Game of 2020
- 112 Operator (Jutsu Games)
- Carrion (Phobia Game Studio)
- Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt RED)
- Ghostrunner (One More Level)
- Shing! (Mass Creation)
Best Polish Game Design of 2020
- 112 Operator (Jutsu Games)
- Carrion (Phobia Game Studio)
- Ghostrunner (One More Level)
- Shing! (Mass Creation)
- Tank Mechanic Simulator (DeGenerals)
Best Polish Game Art of 2020
- 112 Operator (Jutsu Games)
- Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt RED)
- Ghostrunner (One More Level)
- Shing! (Mass Creation)
- Tank Mechanic Simulator (DeGenerals)
Best Polish Mobile Game of 2020
- 112 Operator (Jutsu Games)
- Book of Demons: Tablet Edition (Thing Trunk)
- Fishing Clash (Ten Square Games)
- House Flipper: Home Design, Renovation Games (Imaginalis Games)
- Wanderlust: Transsiberian (Different Tales)
Best Polish Game Orginal Soundtrack of 2020
- Carrion (Cris Velasco)
- Cyberpunk 2077 (Marcin Przybyłowicz, P.T. Adamczyk, Paul Leonard-Morgan)
- Ghostrunner (Daniel Deluxe)
- Shing! (Andrzej Strzemżalski)
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Shadows of New York (Resina)
- SUPERHOT: Mind Control Delete (Zardonic)
Best Foreign Game of 2020
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft Montreal)
- Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions)
- Hades (Supergiant Games)
- Half-Life: Alyx (Valve Corporation)
- The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog)
The final choice will be made by a jury consisting mostly of representatives of leading Polish game industry media:
- Łukasz Gołąbiowski (Onet Technologie, Komputer Świat)
- Mateusz Witczak (PolskiGamedev.pl)
- Paweł Węgrzyn (Uniwersytet Jagielloński)
- Krystian Smoszna (GRY-Online.pl)
- Tomasz Drabik (Quaz)
- Mariusz Borkowski (Gamemusic.pl)
- Michał Król (Graczpospolita.pl, PSX Extreme)
- Grzegorz Bobrek (TVGRY)
- Jakub Karaś (Pan Kubaka)
- Roger Zochowski
The Digital Dragons Awards are a traditional element of the Digital Dragons conference, a key B2B event for the gaming industry in Europe.
This year's conference will be held online from September 7 to 8, 2021. A networking day is planned for September 9 at the Krakow Technology Park. Ticket sales start in August!
Partners:
Małopolska Region is the Main Partner of the event: 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.
Krakow is a modern metropolis with over a million people working in it. Krakow is 140 thousand students, 23 universities, over 200 international corporations employing nearly 80 thousand people in sectors such as finance, IT, services, research and development, business analytics. We base the development of the city, among others on intelligent management and strengthening the sector of modern services and research and development. That is why we focus on innovation and effective cooperation between science, business and local government.
SoftServe is Golden Sponsor of the event. The team consist of 600+ people experienced in such areas as VR, AI, Machine Learning, Big Data as well as in core software development, Experience Design, DevOps, and many others. They are present in five locations in Poland – Wroclaw, Gliwice, Bialystok, Poznan and Warsaw. SoftServe is more than just technology and ideas - it is the place where talented and ambitious people can develop their passion!
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Kraków Technology Park (KPT) has contributed to the development of proper conditions for the development of entrepreneurship for 20 years. For 10 years it has managed the Technology Incubator for IT start-ups. The KPT inspires the start-up community by organising numerous events including workshops, hackathons, and conferences that help to verify business concepts. Besides these, it runs KPT ScaleUp acceleration programme. Companies may count on the support of seed funds, tax reliefs offered by the Polska Strefa Inwestycji (Polish Investment Zone) programme, and preferential office space rental conditions. The KPT is particularly focused on Industry 4.0 and the video games industry. It is the leader of the hub4industry consortium aiming to provide comprehensive support for companies wishing to implement Industry 4.0 solutions. The KPT also organises Digital Dragons – the leading games industry event in Europe. The KPT also works with the international EIT Digital, which aims to drive the digital transformation in Europe.
