Agata Nawrot CV

education:

professional title master engineer landscape architect
XI 2009 - II 2008 Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS): Landscape Architecture - daily master studies
I 2009 – IX 2008 Corvinus University of Budapest: Landscape Architecture international student exchange in Erasmus program
VI – I 2004 Course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (painting, drawing, history of art)
II 2008 - IX 2003 WULS: Landscape Architecture - daily engineer studies

solo prizes, acknowledgements, publications, public talks:

With the stop-motion movie project "The Flight of the Quirky Owl":

2025 finalist at London Awards International Film Festival (LAIFF)
2023 Awesome Without Borders - grant winner
2023 public screening of the teaser at Pecha Kucha meeting at Fablab (Warsaw) with a presentation about my stop-motion movie creation process
2023 presentation of the movie teaser at Reboot Develop festival in Croatia

With the mini game "Physalis":

2022 finalist at GDevelop Game Jam #1

With the game "Karambola" (released in 2016):

as of 2025 96% positive reviews on Steam
since 2017 many positive reviews in popular papers like: The Guardian, PC Gamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, culture.pl
2018 candidate for the prize "Polityka’s Passport"
2017 A MAZE Awards in Berlin - nominated in category Digital Moment
2017 BEST OF PL selection at Digital Cultures festival in Warsaw (with public talk about the game)
2017 NowPlayThis festival in London - selection for the exhibition (with lightning talk about self care and mental health in creative professions)

Published comics:

2012 "Microbe Hunters"- chosen strips in the monthly magazine Kocie Sprawy
2011 "Chateau d'Arrakis" in Kolektyw #9
2011 "I told you not to go to sleep hungry" in Biceps #2
2010 "1410" at Esensja.pl
2010 "Windmills" excerpts in Ligatura Catalogue

Group exhibitions:

since 2010 travelling exhibition "The Last Match"
2010 "Polish Female Comics" in Białystok

Other achievements:

since 2017 many game presentations at gamejams and gamedev meetings; successful pitchings of game projects to investors
2015 - 2013 many prizes in TopCoder Studio along with Studio Cup achievement - 4th place
2013 "Snowl" - winner of a t-shirt design in a Threadless contest for Gap limited line
2013 winner of an independent contest organized by Forbidden Planet with book cover for "Reluctant Fundamentalist"
2010 Ligatura Pitching in Poznań - selection with graphic novel project "Windmills" (with public talk about the project)
2008 winner in a comics competition about "The Witcher" game, organized by gram.pl

GROUP ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

With Sebastian Krzyszkowiak:

2022 "Rukavychka" game - 2nd prize in United With Ukraine Game Jam in Warsaw
2020 "Pipe Inspector: Plumbocalypse" game - 1st prize in Innovation category in PolyJam in Warsaw (part of Global Game Jam), 1st prize in Novelty category in Strawberry Jam (online)
2020 official selection at Ars Independent festival - with presentation of game "Odgłos"
2019 invitation to Digital Cultures festival in Warsaw with lecture "Far-out Sounds - a game promoting the Polish Radio Experimental Studio", presenting creative process of games "Odlot" and "Odgłos", as part of "Facts/ True stories being the true stories" section
2018 selection for Digital Cultures Trendbook as Holy Pangolin with games "Karambola" and "Rumina"
2018 "Odlot" game - 1st prize in Geek Game Jam in Poznań - with contract to make it into a longer game called "Odgłos"
2017 "Supershod HD" game, 1st prize in "Being dos" category in Huuuge Game Jam
2017 "O koniu, który jeździł koleją" game ("About a railway travelling horse") - 1st prize in Innovation category at Palace Game Jam in Radzyń Podlaski