Poland's Game Diplomacy Rests on Chopin, Curie, and CD PROJEKT RED
Damian, who handles East Asia projects for the Polish Indie Games Foundation and PR for East Asia at 11 bit studios, told an interview program organized at the invitation of Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs that games are Poland's soft power.
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Why it matters
Poland's own industry body is pitching video games to foreign press as national soft power, backed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the numbers it uses put a single Warsaw studio's revenue above an entire agricultural export sector.
Key Facts
- Damian handles East Asia projects at the Polish Indie Games Foundation and PR for East Asia at 11 bit studios.
- Damian named Marie Curie, Chopin, and CD PROJEKT RED as the things people abroad associate with Poland.
- Cyberpunk 2077 revenue was 3 billion zloty, with CD PROJEKT RED at roughly 1,000 employees.
- Warsaw has 6,343 people working in the game industry, more than London, and 300 studios against 200 in all of Romania.
- Poland ranks third in game industry size by country, after the UK and France, with about 14,000 people in game-related jobs.
He listed Marie Curie, Chopin, and CD PROJEKT RED as the names people abroad associate with Poland, and compared Cyberpunk 2077's 3 billion zloty revenue to the country's apple export trade.
The pitch came with a comparison from outside games. Damian once handled promotion of Polish apples at the Polish Embassy in Beijing; Poland is the EU's largest apple producer, and the apple industry employs about 150,000 people, with roughly 50,000 directly involved in exports that were worth more than 1.8 billion zloty in 2023. Cyberpunk 2077 alone brought in 3 billion zloty, with CD PROJEKT RED at roughly 1,000 employees.
He also placed Warsaw at the center of the European industry: 6,343 people working in games, more than London, and 300 studios in the city against 200 in all of Romania.
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