This Is Poland: From communism to video game wellspring
This Is Poland: From communism to video game wellspring
Six longform written features. Two video documentaries. Three of Poland’s largest cities and nearly two dozen developers. Polygon Goes To Poland.
This Is Poland: With hit titles like Dead Island, The Witcher, Dying Light, and Gears of War: Judgment, Poland is a wellspring of video game entertainment. But how did a former communist country get that way? Polygon took a trip to Poland to find out.
http://www.polygon.com/features/2014/7/16/5885167/poland-game-industry
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England’s better
Lol
ONIONLAND!!1! XD
Poland was the biggest and one of most powerful countries in Europe during XIV, XV, XVI and XVII ages
Russian Empire? – Poland captured Moscow twice…
Austrian Empire? – Poland saved Vienna twice against Ottoman Empire…
German Empire? – Poland kicked Germany from East Europe in XV century for ages
Part of this movie regarding polish history (everything what I saw) was made by idiot and ignorant,
ta gra w 7 minucie ktoś wie bo w dzieciństwie z braciakiem graliśmy w prawie identyczną i chciałbym znów w nią pograć ;D
I emigrated to Germany from Poland, about 6 years ago. Through that I was able to build a great (imo) gaming collection, spend an awful lot of time in bars and pubs and meet a lot of people from all around the globe. At the company in which I’m working, there are over 70 different nationalities present. Oh, and not to mention playing in a hard rock band for over 4 years. Those things would never happen to me if I stayed, and I didn’t belong to a poor family.
I am polish my Grandmother fled from Poland after ww2
THIS IS POLAND…
– POVERTY
– UNEMPLOYMENT
– UGLY
– BORING
SOURCE: I LIVE IN THIS HELL HOLE FOR LAST 3 YEAR…DON’T LET THESE PROPAGANDA VIDEOS FOOL YOU!
Painkiller, Bulletstorm, Gears of War: Judgement, Call of Juarez, Dead Island, Chrome, Earth, The Witcher, Hard Reset, Two Worlds, Shadow Warrior (remake), Sniper: Ghost Warrior… Yeah, quite a long list for such a small country in central Europe. And it’s not all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_games_developed_in_Poland
https://www.google.pl/search?q=polski+poci%C4%85g&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=lDTUU-6eIfTY4QT_u4DwBA&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=654#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=Cta7rdLOx9ylaM%253A%3B-fd3XMiX4AWnOM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fs2.blomedia.pl%252Fgadzetomania.pl%252Fimages%252F2013%252F06%252Fen57-1-349795.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fgadzetomania.pl%252F2013%252F06%252F09%252Fjaponskie-koleje-przyszlosci-zjada-pod-ziemie-udane-testy-pociagu-l0%3B800%3B500
CYBERPUNK 2077
CEBULAND!! XD
Two worlds needs to be mentioned
An excellent video from Polygon?
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
Dzień dobry, Polygon ;). Nice that you are spreading knowledge of our beautiful country.
God bless polaski. 🙂
Poland will be the savior of the games industry and western civilization
Wow, I originally wanted to get into the Witcher series cause it looked cool. Now it’s like a good cause as well.
It’s a nice movie about Poland. A little differently, however, sees this place a young Polish citizen. Many emigrate. Emigrating, young Poles much more liked by the movie about poland as an example of the 51 U.S. A. state ub missing parts of the British Kingdom. And even if it is not the whole truth is surely somewhere near the truth. 🙂
Chmielarz’s version of 1989 transformation is laughable, that’s the official fairytale for the braindead
Yeah video its about games but if u want to know geopolitical truth, after USSR collapse there was no power given to the people. Local high rank soviet agents who stay in country begin to build economic net that fit in to new reality of open market with them as puppet master, they burn all intel docs and put on tie as new free-world businessman. Old national industries are taken and sell to outside corps, they begin to have money, power, grow the corruption, some of them start political carrier and control government and law. This net is holding Poland up to modern days, and its not only Poland, lots of post-soviet countries have the same problem. This video real piss me off by showing fake market image, if u don’t believe come and try to run business. Any way i hope that Wither will be epic game, and all of u will enjoy it.
Polska jest piękna
Poland is beautyfull
6:57 what game is it? 🙂
7:57 hello Tyskie Klasyczne 😀 beer at work! that’s the spirit 😀
Poland, germanys finland
I’ m from Poland and Poland is shit and poor as cock …. biggest taxes , the worst roads , the lowest salary , the most stupid politics in the world
7:57 zajebista robota w tym cd project jak se mozna browarka pierdolnac na legalu 🙂
As a polish person, I just feel more proud about my country. Polska! 😀
7:00 Soldat!!!!
Remember we are defenders awas pamiętajcie My zawsze jestesm obracam i
don’t tell me that all games you shown in this vid is from Poland
1:26 "today poland is independend…" alright, enough those load of crap, gotta find sth reliable, based on fact, not imaginary of random idiot
If Poland is so beautiful place to live, so why milions of Poles are leaving their country and put down roots on the west? Poland is ruled by powerfull political and buisness group of people, who grab whole post communism property for a few symbolic dolars, all factories, everything has been sold to the "party friends" from the earlier system for the buck. People losed their jobs, goverment is taking credits from the bank for the bilions dolars borrow people more and more and created totally different political system than from the west. Poland didnt have ANY survey to clean this country from communists in the goverment, courts, prosecution in the security agencies and other offices. You really don`t want to live in this country, nobody want, there are no place for people, who just want to live worthily. Thats all about my "beatiful" country.
Also guess why Polish games are polished? It’s in our nationality – we either do something perfectly or not at all. The only exception is our ball-less government who can’t say to US: either we get no-visa traffic to us, or you’ll have to go through extremely complicated visa process with low success ratio.
Who watch this in 2077?
Correction, from socialism , not communism. Russia had communism. It was way worse, compared to the wretched socialism.
Mr.Chmielarz and his socks…
Witcher was not the first nor first good Polish game, it hasn’t started anything. We had the Earth series, Painkiller, Polanie and some others. The CDP’s history of gamemaking is actually only about 20% of their whole history.
Foreigners like to think that Polish games equal quality, but that really only applies to the Witcher series. Techland is churning out their zombie rehashed games, People Can Fly was bought and raped by EA, only the new Call of Juarez: Gunslinger represented some quality (after the previous game was absolutely awful).
Also, government helping small companies, I lol’d.
Sweden is the best
walesa is a trator
Remember guys Walesa is bolek! He is not real hero for Poles. Check this in internet.
If any of you honorable YouTubers desires to become just this little bit more acquainted with Poland – have a look at my humble channel. I’d be more than happy if you did that!
Sure CD Project RED and other developers are awesome but credit goes to them and them ONLY.
Don’t listen to Obama’s bullshit. It’s just a pile of diplomatic bullshit. Here in Poland the government does nothing to support new business. People are on their own. Taxes are high and at the top of that we just had our retirement age rised. It’s not that sweet.
"A niechaj narodowie wżdy postronni znają,
Iż Polacy nie gęsi, iż swój język mają!"
Tyskie (polish beer) in 7:57, Yes. This Is Definitely Poland. xD
God bless polaski. 🙂
The videos are good, quatily
What’s up with the low views?
WOW, Polygon was in my country!
I`ve hope other games produced in Poland will be as good as Witcher 3 is.
and also i`ve hope startups will be great and theverge also can arrive here.
(sry for my eng ;))
This should be named "Video game industry in Poland" or "Gaming in Poland". I expected something about history and society of Poland and what actually people out there know about it. Good job though, I enjoyed it.
Nie rozumiem wypowiedzi Pana Adama Chmielarza. Panie Adamie Polska znacznie wcześniej była demokratyczna, Oczywista jest demokracja 20-lecia między-wojennego ale i znacznie wcześniej . Byliśmy jedynym krajem w Europie który wprowadził współczesną konstytucje, proszę więc nie mówić o demokracji w Polsce w roku 89 jak o locie w kosmos.Poza tym autor filmu na wstępie wspomina o granicach Państwa Polskiego Bardzo po łebkach mówiąc głownie o zaborach …nieścisłości które budują zdanie obcokrajowców o moim kraju( z racji języka narracji to dla nich ten film) nie bardzo prawdziwe..nie lubie….
A bit short, but still a facinating subject. And the Polish President (or was it Prime Minister?) giving "Big O" a game makes me smile…maybe the world world would be a better place if our heads of state got together for a gaming session once in a while.