Frostpunk 2 awarded Polish Game of the Year 2024

The gala took place at the ICE Krakow Congress Centre during one of Europe’s largest video game conferences. It was also broadcast on GRYOnline.pl and tvgry. Frostpunk 2 is the sequel to the well-received survivial strategy game from 2018, which also won the legendary dragon egg. Frostpunk 2 topped the rankings in three categories: Best Polish Game, Best Polish Game Design and Best Polish Game Audio. In turn, Nobody Wants to Die, an adventure game with a noir vibe, was awarded for Best Polish Narrative and Best Polish Visual Game Art.

Magdalena Cielecka of Anshar Studios, a game developer and researcher, producer and academic lecturer, received the Special Recognition Award, given every year to the most influential persons in Polish gamedev, from the Krakow Technology Park, the organisers of Digital Dragons Conference.

The prestigious statuettes were awarded during the second day of Digital Dragons Conference, one of the most important B2B events for the global gamedev industry organised since in 2012 in Krakow. The event was broadcast by GRYOnline.pl and tvgry, which are part of Webedia Polska SA.

A prominent guest of the gala was Tomáš Dvořák, a.k.a. Floex: composer, multi-instrumentalist and multimedia artist. He created the soundtrack for games by Amanita Design, including Samorost 2, Samorost 3 and Machinarium. He also composed the score for the Polish game Papetura.

For the first time of the gala’s history, indie developers have also been recognised for their work with Indie Dragons Awards. Physical prizes in the form of advanced computer hardware for the indie developers were sponsored by AMD (the Technology Partner & Indie Zone Partner of the event). AMD also gifted DD Awards winners in the Best Polish Game category with a Western Digital workstation with a 96-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO processor, 256GB of DDR5 RAM and a powerful 2TB drive.

Digital Dragons Awards is the oldest and most prestigious conference in the Polish video game industry. The best entries among those nominated by the gamedev (follow this link to see the nominees) were selected by a jury composed of the industry, media and academia representatives.

Digital Dragons Awards Gala powered by Activision | Elsewhere, was the crowning moment of the second day of the conference. On Tuesday, 20 May, the guests will be able to participate in more speeches, organised in six rooms at the same time, presentations of the most interesting indie projects during Digital Dragons Arena and many networking opportunities.

1st place: Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken (scriptwelder) 
2nd place: XYZ (Screen Tear Studios) 
3rd place: ARMS OF GOD (Dark Jay) 

Meet jury of Digital Dragons Awards and Indie Dragons Awards.

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.

The Main Sponsor of Digital Dragons Conference 2025 is Activision. Announced in 2024, Elsewhere Entertainment is a new Activision studio based in Malmö, Sweden, and Warsaw, Poland.  The team is in development of a new narrative-based and genre-defining AAA franchise based on a new IP.  Elsewhere’s vision is to create a state-of-the-art franchise inspired from bold ideas for an enduring legacy that resonates beyond games. 

Founded in 1979, Activision is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and products on consoles, PC and mobile.  Built from the ground up, Elsewhere is Activision’s newest studio and is continuing to add world-class talent to its ranks. For more information visit Careers at Elsewhere.

Krakow is a modern metropolis with over a million people working in it. Krakow is 132 thousand students, 23 higher education institutions, including 7 universities, over 280 international corporations employing nearly 101 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.

Digital Dragons Conference 2025 is held under the patronage of the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.