Meet the most promising indie games of the season!

06 maja 2022

Indie Showcase is an inseparable elements of the Digital Dragons international conference. This is where the most promising indie games from all over the world are presented. The competition has attracted 270 developers from 37 countries – the best result in the history of the event!

We have received bids from almost everywhere in Europe: notably from Slovakia, Czechia, Belgium, Germany, and France but also from Denmark, Norway, Finland, Cyprus, and Spain. The competition is also popular in such distant locations as Australia, Japan, Guatemala, the US, Brazil, Peru, Canada, and the Republic of South Africa.

We again received plenty of applications from game developers from all over the world. The games belong to a broad variety of genres and are a perfect proof for the exceptional creativity of the game developers. Each year I am impressed by the plethora of unique concepts, new gameplay mechanics, and inspiring plots you find in the games submitted.

Daniel Sadowski, jury Indie Showcase

Jury composed of:

Piotr Gamracy
Daniel Sadowski
Jakub Rokosz
Joanna Buganik
Karol Zajączkowski
Rafał Szrajber
Artur Maksara

selected over 40 indie games that will make it to Steam platform on 12–13 May.

Take a look at the list of the most promising games:

Best Month Ever! (Klabater/Warsaw Film School)
Project Warlock II (Buckshot Software)
B.I.O.T.A. (small bros)
Doodle God Universe (JoyBits)
Power Chord (Big Blue Bubble)
This Means Warp (Outlier Games)
Dark Fracture (Twisted II Studio)
Figment 2: Creed Valley (Bedtime Digital Games)
Super Catboy (Pixelpogo)
Sucker For Love: First Date (DreadXP)
Batora: Lost Haven (Stormind Games)
Lumencraft (2Dynamic Games & Star Drifters)
Zodiac Legion (Studio Draconis)
Shardpunk: Verminfall (Clockwork Pile)
Model Builder (Moonlit)
Hamster Playground (We Dig Games)
ITORAH (Grimbart Tales)
FixFox (Rendlike)
Lost In Play (Happy Juice Games)
Get Tanked! (Limited Responsibility)
SAD RPG: A Social Anxiety Role Playing Game (Evil Indie Games)
Kandria (Shirakumo Games)
Outcore: Desktop Adventure (Doctor Shinobi)

The Digital Dragons Conference held and the ICE Kraków Congress Centre on 16 and 17 May will be an opportunity to play the games selected by the jury, and 20 of the best will compete for the prizes in the second, final round of the competition.

This year, a major surprise has come in the exceptional variety of the games selected. The unorthodox approach to the well-known concepts and themes has become the hallmark of the competition, which is one of the most exciting elements of the Digital Dragons Conference. The indie game developers have not failed the jury’s expectations this year.

Piotr Gamracy, jury Indie Showcase

The jury will winnow the top 20 entrants to select the three best games, and the gamer community will choose their winner in a Community Vote. The Indie Showcase on the second day of the conference will close with the grand Award Presentation Gala showcasing all the winners. It will also be the time to disclose the results of the Community Vote.

I just love the early spring bringing the shiver of emotion around the Indie Showcase! That’s like a rollercoaster, and you never know what to expect. One thing is certain: loads of fun and hidden gems are awaiting discovery and appreciation.

Joanna Buganik, jury Indie Showcase

Whether you play on the spot here in Kraków, or at home, using Steam, this year’s Indie Showcase is a real bargain. We don’t know the winners yet, but you can quite likely put your finger on the productions that sooner or later will draw plenty of attention. The number of competition winners is greater than just that announced by the jury. And the greatest and luckiest winners are all who participate in the Digital Dragons.

Jacek Wandzel - Koordynator Indie Games & Digital Dragons Awards

Prizes in the competition are funded by AMD, Intel, and Xsolla. The indie gamedev studios that enter the Digital Dragons ecosystem receive more than just attractive prizes during the Indie Showcase competition, including realistic options to develop in the gamedev sector.

Whether your studio has made it to the competition or not, you’re welcome to apply for support and professional mentoring within the Digital Dragons ecosystem. These opportunities are granted by the Digital Dragons Accelerator launched this year. It already works for 13 teams from all over the world.

Digital Dragons Accelerator is dedicated to the young foreign studios and teams whose prototype games are already in production or who already have certain experience in developing and releasing games. If you develop games, see the details yourself:

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Many find the Indie competition a door to the local and global media, investors, and publishers. Visit the Digital Dragons and get to know the studios that have qualified to the competition. The tickets are available at www.digitaldragons.pl

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Partners

Third Kind Games - is the Main Sponsor of the event: an independent studio with over 60 employees based in Leamington Spa, United Kingdom, founded on AAA experience by senior developers from Activision (FreeStyleGames) in 2016. Third Kind Games has also recently expanded into Poland, launching a new studio in early 2022. Third Kind Games has experience working with some of the largest companies in the games industry, developing critically acclaimed games and franchises for the likes of Activision, Sony, Nintendo, Codemasters, Crytek and, most recently, Mythical Games. Third Kind Games is the lead developer of Blankos Block Party by Mythical Games, a ground-breaking Play to Earn party game featuring NFT characters and accessories, providing players with proof of verified ownership and authenticity and enabling true player-to-player trading through Mythical Marketplace. Third Kind Games is also currently working on its own IP, alongside an unannounced project with a high profile industry name.

Województwo Małopolskie 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. Evidence of that is the number of new ventures growing every year, including dynamically developing tech start-ups. Thanks to the massive support given to entrepreneurship and the optimal utilization of EU funds and other public funds, Województwo Małopolskie positively stands out among other voivodships.

Miasto Kraków is a modern metropolis with over a million people working in it. Krakow is 150 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.

Krakowski Park Technologiczny has contributed to the development of proper conditions for the development of entrepreneurship for 25 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.