Madrid City Council
Madrid In Game Campus of the Madrid Videogame
Madrid In Game is an initiative of the City of Madrid that focuses on promoting one of the most powerful industries, and with the most potential for future growth, such as the video game industry. Madrid in Game is a transformative project loaded with initiatives that seeks to become the biggest VIDEOGAME CAMPUS in Europe.
Objective
Position the city of Madrid as a benchmark in the video game industry on the international stage and make Madrid the world epicenter of the gamification industry by attracting large development studies to the capital and promoting the acceleration of startups and generating value and sustainable employment.
The Idea
The video game industry is one of the most vibrant today, with a greater travel and a high capacity to attract talent, young and quality. Spain is one of the highest references in the development of video games at European level. Still, there is still a way to go to expand the future paths in the industry, so Madrid In Game, emerges as a city project, from the City of Madrid, developed and driven by two strategic pillars:
- Madrid Video Game Cluster, which unites the entire ecosystem with the big companies and training centers of the sector. It consists of more than 70 companies, developers, e-sports teams and institutions related to the video game sector. Its mission is to promote the gamification industry and to encourage the creation of new and highly skilled companies and jobs in this highly innovative technology sector, with enormous potential for the future and high added value.
- The Campus of Videogame conforms as a physical-virtual space that houses different spaces and initiativesamong which is a incubator and project accelerator in which entrepreneurs related to the video game industry, Esports and technologies applied to gamification will be able to give the momentum that is lacking to their business thanks to the resources that will be made available to them as laboratories, mentories and tools of work, among others.
The campus consists of three buildings and 3,000 m2:
- Development Center- The heart of Madrid in Game, dedicated to training and entrepreneurship, links with universities and companies, offers advice to start ups and support in the search for investors. It welcomes inside a collaborative space for companies with studies of graphic design, digital animation, recording and augmented reality and will be complemented with a virtual campus for greater coverage and diffusion.
- Madrid Esports Center – known as the High Performance Center, it is the meeting point of Esports in the city and headquarters of the Municipal Esports League. A great training space for Esports teams where national and international competitions are promoted and tournaments and events are held with which the Esports approach the city of Madrid and its citizens.
- Experience Center – Pavilion Conferences and Exhibitions related to the video game industry.
Professionals from the video game industry, and society in general.
