Canarian Coalition yesterday showed its support for innovation as a new engine for the island with the aim of seeking diversification beyond tourism. The senator Fernando Clavijo and the candidate for the presidency of the Cabildo, Rosa Dávila, ratified it during her visit to the Innovation Factory of Tenerife. Eduardo gonzalezits director, showed the nationalist leaders the willingness of the sector and its potential to generate wealth and job.
González stated that “we are going to launch Abyss, a video game developed here that is a milestone for us.” 17 people participated in the project and it had a cost of 425,000 euros with financing, mostly private. But González considers that “it is important to have the support of the institutions and we had it at the beginning.” The company started as a start up and it already has seven workers, although it can summon more than a hundred people to events. A benchmark in the training of new technological professionals.
Abyss is a survival video game where an explorer enters an abyss and looks for resources to survive. It puts the player, in the third person, before the challenge of managing those resources and having a strategy to be able to advance. It is “a video game for all audiences”, without explicit violence that can be found on all consoles and the forecast is that it will be released later this year.
Rosa Dávila stressed: “Historically, the Cabildo has been a great support for the innovation sector and this video game in Tenerife, made by people from here and who work here, is a milestone.” She added: “We are going to maintain our commitment to the talent of the Island, with events like the TLP, which are a benchmark. We are talking about a sector that generates employment and wealth, does not consume land and with high added value”.
For his part, Fernando Clavijo pointed out that “when we talk about diversifying the economy, jobs with high added value and young people having a future here, we talk about what is coming out today the light, this video game ». But that, he stressed, “requires support, time, investment and, above all, accompaniment in times of difficulty.” He considers that “that is what the Canary Coalition has done from the institutions; We even wanted to take it to the classroom, to the education of our people”.
At the Innovation Factory, design courses, video game creation or robotics training are taught. “Future engineers, computer scientists and engineers leave here,” Clavijo assessed to conclude: “You learn the language of machines, the language of the future, by playing. A successful model that we will continue to support.”
