The Madrid City Council will be awarded 8.3 million euros to the Nest Gammera UTE for the video game campus

The Directorate of Economy of the Madrid City Council has published its report of valuation of the offers for the management of the Madrid video game campus. The offer with a higher score has been presented by the UTE formed by ** Vodafone, Origin and Gammer criteria that seem in the document.

In total, more than 20 million euros have been invested among the three pavilions that will be rehabilitated in the Casa de Campo, where the economy area intends to create a physical-virtual space that serves as educational model for future generations. From the City Council they want young people from Madrid to develop their career in the world of video games in Madrid with attractive and stable employment opportunities, something that will do through eSports, incubators, metavers and other transversal activities to the industry.

In addition to the gammering offer, an amount of € 3,610,717.95, with an offer focused on the design, programming and realization of programs, tournaments, tournaments, tournaments, tournaments and activities related to eSport », as well as« the development and management of training areas ». Activities of Leisure and Education S.L. They will have a budget of 5,326,812.07, and will be in charge of the communication of the campus and the realization of events / days / fairs / dissemination activities.

The offer of the Consultant Deloitte, on the other hand, will receive € 1,099,655.60, and would be the Technical Office of Management of the Madrid video game.

This decision has aroused the criticisms of many Spanish developers through social networks due to the presence of gammera within this UTE, after the statements of former participants in their projects that denounced bad conditions and a lack of efficiency at the level of opportunities.

I have worked with a campus with a gammera as publisher and everything was delay of payments and changes of sudden conditions without coming to mind, says one of them, who wants to prefer not to reveal his identity. «It is famous the bad reputation that Gammero has and that they follow at the foot of the cannon despite everything demonstrates how careless the industry and the lack of real action by associations and public entities that, knowing these things, pass completely from the theme. In general, for what I have commented with other colleagues there is a feeling of total neglect and absolute impunity. We have no resources or means to go through other ways that are not riding a scandal where we can, but it is seen that it does completely the same ».

«It is another initiative more totally unchanged with the real needs of studies. Those 8 million could go to direct aid to development or support for the creation of new studies or developers, but again we fall into the syndrome of Masquelcineylamúsápuntos », he concludes.

Mohammed Bow His insistence that they have smaller studies. «Through the cluster of the video game we have a whole ristra of companies in which we cannot either trust Daniel Sánchez [CEO of Gammera Nest; Ndr] or ps talents, he says. «In this way, small studies would have who to appeal directly without being judges and part. We understand that the City Council has no willingness to reinforce the Conchabeo that exists among companies linked to the PS talents, so we believe that criticism could be useful ».

The pixel artist highlights that from here the entrepreneurs behind PS talents will be reinforced, so it will be necessary to have a critical attitude while collaborating with the City Council itself, that they are aware of what they are promoting and supporting With this award »; In this way, they hope, it would be possible to reformulate the project with another proposal once the deadline of this first award, within three years.

From Madrid video we already made a report in which we talked to the studies that had announced their departure from PlayStation Talents to know in detail their experience in the program, where they already talked about unfulfilled promises and disappointing working conditions.

Editor's note ● We have tried to contact Gammera Nest and the Madrid City Council, but at the time of publication of this news we have not received an answer. We will update the piece when we receive it.