Jorge Moreno on his Twitter account says that "In #simoeducacion adults are talking about young people. And in #MadridGameWeek are young people talking about young people"he also ends by saying that the Madrid Game Week event was full. Marc Prensky was also surprised how the video game fair was full of children, teenagers and young people and that that was the challenge teachers had to face who attended his talk, in Hall 6 a few meters from Hall 8.
My daughter and I have passed along with others 55,000 attendees, to Madrid Games Week 2014, the great video game fair, which took place between October 16 and 19. Tickets were impossible to buy from a distance and we had to resort to the ticket offices. In addition to the incredible assistance, what surprised me the most is how video games have become a huge entertainment industry in which the only thing that will happen is that it will continue to grow. We have seen children of the age of my daughter, 11 years old, many teenagers with their somewhat hesitant and hesitant movements, many older with clear and knowledgeable ideas of novelties and parents who accompanied their children although I have many doubts that it is not the other way around.
In Peques and Más we had commented that More smalls they would also have their place at the fair with a children's cosplay contest. In the video below you can see the participants and the winners.
Madrid Games Week It is a fair designed for players. It is not a place of great announcements but we can all participate, if you are able to endure the wait, and try the games before anyone else that are coming In my case we had some luck and we got up early to play Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U and for the Nintendo 3DS. A very entertaining game, with many explosions, punches, jumps and spins in which the most important thing is to manage the reflexes well to attack and also defend yourself.
There were also many older people dressed as video game characters. This Joker style in Batman with those elegant Pulp Fiction costumes and those masks I found most attractive. Y they were not very young those who carried them.
Here you can see young people playing soccer video games, highly demanded in the area of Microsoft XBOX.
You could also try the video games of Pokemon from Nintendo for which the years do not pass and continue to be attractive to new generations of players.
Video games and figures of Disney Infinity they keep the interest and curiosity of the attendees ...
... and also of the families that tried to play here with Thor and Iron Man.
I really liked the educational zone designed for the students of video game programming. And although everyone likes to play Someone has to do them! I saw several spaces with Universities and Study Centers prepared to encourage students to enter video games. Here you can see some designs made with a 3D printer although the key is know the tools and practice from an early age to deal with them. The results are sure to come if you work hard and make attractive scripts. The industry is going to demand many professionals and I think it is clearly a career for the future.
The greater they also had a good time with girls dressed in video game characters, the adult cosplay call him. And the truth is that those who are well dressed take lots of photos and share their tastes and entertainment with many fans.
By two euros, and a long wait, you could try less than a minute of experience with Oculus on a roller coaster Although what we saw on the monitor surely had nothing to do with what the one wearing it was experiencing. I think this is clearly another future trend, and will facilitate many things to our children when they grow up: training, experimentation, entertainment, design, etc.
There were also many karaoke applications that although they don't require a lot of thumb skills they do they demand self-confidence, intonation, tuning and much training. Something that, unfortunately, these young people had not worked much. Although I have no doubt that they have a long way to have fun with their friends singing their favorite songs.
The shopping area, completely full and in which we are always asking how much does it cost? with products triumphing such as swords, spikes, figures, glasses and sweatshirts Minecraft. In addition many t-shirts and merchandising of all kinds for fans.
The young couple of the image was bought, for five euros each, the minecraft glasses:
And so far the chronicle of the session in the Madrid Games Week. An event in which we have spent, my daughter and I, more than four hours coming and going, trying and waiting to play with video games. We have also seen that the industry has a super health and that brands and manufacturers of hardware and software dominate the springs of marketing based on very high quality products. Is a very mature industry and to which the training schools have already taken the eye to encourage young people to develop professional careers in which I believe that there will not be much unemployment although it will be necessary to be very good, a great specialist and of course travel to meet and collect experiences of players from around the world.
