Support for the video games sector

Digital Dragons

Digital Dragons Conference – one of the largest B2B events for the games industry in the whole of Europe, to which hundreds of creators and entrepreneurs from all over the world come every year to participate in lectures and business meetings or to present their products in the Expo Zone. The conference is accompanied by a gala during which Digital Dragons Awards, the oldest and most prestigious distinctions in the Polish games industry, are presented, with the nominees being selected by the Polish gamedev community and the winners by a jury of experts and representatives of the most important media. A considerable space is also at the disposal of independent studios, which compete for awards in Indie Showcase and can present their works to potential investors and publishers in a special Indie Zone, where a special place is also designated for studios from Central and Eastern Europe.

Digital Dragons Accelerator

Digital Dragons Accelerator is a programme for young and promising development studios with a prototype in production or with a track record in earlier game development and publishing. In addition to the usual accelerator opportunities to find a publisher or attract partners or mentors, the Digital Dragons Accelerator also offers the prospect of funding their own projects.

Digital Dragons Academy

Digital Dragons Academy is an educational project for people interested in starting a career in the games industry. So far, almost 10 000 participants have taken part in the classes, which are held in the form of stationary conventions throughout Poland or webinars. Each meeting in the series is accompanied by CV consultations conducted by HR experts from the games industry.

Digital Dragons Incubator

Krakow Technology Park runs an incubation programme designed for beginner game creation studios. A series of 6 workshops and individual mentoring meetings are to strengthen the business and sales skills of indie developers.

KrakJam

For many years now, Krakow Technology Park has been supporting and organising KrakJam – a 48-hour computer game development marathon that is part of the global Global Game Jam initiative. The event is organised at the end of January and the beginning of February, and participants make use of KTP’s extensive technical infrastructure in the process of working on their project.

Digital Dragons Research

Krakow Technology Park has initiated and conducts a study of trends in gamers’ consumer behaviour – Polish Gamers Research. The first report was published in 2014. A report entitled Profile of Polish Gamedev is also prepared in a two-year cycle.

Both studies have been published in three collective reports entitled Condition of the Polish Games Industry.