Agata Nawrot ACHIEVEMENTS

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 Official selection at the Starling Film Festival in Liverpool, UK
2025 Official selection at the D.I.Y. Film Fest + Emotional Freedom Lab (Strange Shorts 2025) in Long Beach, California
2025 finalist at London Awards International Film Festival (LAIFF)
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
2023 Awesome Without Borders - grant winner

With the mini game "Physalis":

2022 finalist at GDevelop Game Jam #1

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

as of 2025 96-97% 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