Spain Cuts Funding for Indie Game Developers

Spain has today decided to block €2 million in European Union funding meant to be distributed to indie game developers in the country as a step to help provide a push to the country's game-development scene.

The conclusion was reported by Spanish publication El Espanõl, which said that the country's Minister for Energy, Tourism, and Digital Agenda, Álvaro Nadal took the decision to block the funds from the Eu.

Spain Cuts €2 Million Funding for Indie Game Developers — Prototype Courtesy: El Espanõl

While the reason for this decision is not articulate nevertheless, the fact remains that most of this funding was intended for game evolution teams with 5 or less members, with piffling to no funding — teams that really needed the money to continue developing games.

Spain is the Eu'south quaternary largest gaming market. The European union regularly sends funds such every bit this one to countries to assistance in diverse ways. Nevertheless, countries sometimes reject such funding to avoid beingness embarrassed on the international stage for taking 'charity'. In the by, the UK has rejected EU's monetary help for flood victims in the country.

Indie developers in the country will definitely be hitting hard past this unexpected conclusion, especially considering that the funding was previously canonical past the country. A lot of these indie development houses might even have included that expected funding into their budgets — budgets that will at present be thrown off balance, potentially leading to quite a lot of indie developers having to shut shop.

Had the funding fabricated its way to the indie developers, every evolution house was expected to receive an corporeality ranging from €50,000 to €150,000 — quite a large corporeality for indie game development.

The country's gaming association 'DEV' is scheduled to present a white paper on the condition of the country's gaming industry on January 11. This story is nevertheless developing, and we'll report on it as the situation unfolds.