We know the winners of the Digital Dragons Awards 2021!

This year’s gala was hosted by Radosław Nałęcz and Tadeusz Zieliński of Polsat Games, the crew behind Faux Paux on TV, with Sonia Wojciechowska of the Kraków Technology Park. For those who could not be present at the ICE Kraków Congress Centre in person, Polsat Games will rebroadcast the event at 6pm on 27 May.

The organisation of the Digital Dragons received the support from the Municipality of Kraków. FRENZY make sure that the show you see is absolutely perfect technically. The music setting for the entire event was provided by Wojciech Urbański and Stanisław Słowiński.

The jury who selected the winners from among the nominees were mostly representatives of the principal portals devoted to the games. The jury also included a representative of the academia – Paweł Węgrzyn from the Department of Game Technology of the Jagiellonian University, the editor-in-chief of gamemusic.pl and cocreator of the Game Music Festival – Mateusz Borkowski, and Ola Olszar running the “6 colours of the games” blog on diversity and LGBTQIA+ in video games. This year also a representative of the Kraków Film Music Festival (FMF) – a festival held in Kraków for over a decade to present, besides film music, music from video games – has been invited to the jury.

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. 

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.