Mojang published on April 8, on its official YouTube channel, a video entirely in Spanish and dedicated to Spain showing the work of Gabriel García and Nora Pulido, creators of Minecrafteate, a project born in 2015 with the aim of spreading and recreating part of the Spanish cultural heritage in Minecraft.
Gabriel García started playing for the title at the age of eight as another hobby, until it finally became a refuge for him in a very difficult time where he was bullied. When the time came, Gabriel showed him his constructions, recreating monuments to Nuria Pulido, who thought it was a good way to make known an “almost lost” national heritage. Since then, Gabriel has dedicated himself to rebuilding different monuments in Minecraft and recording their videos with María Fernández. On the other hand, Pulido is developing the scripts for the video.
This project caught the attention of Mojang, who contacted Minecrafteate. Finally, the studio traveled from Sweden to Burgos and Villamorón to begin recording. The video shows the Church of Villamorón and its recreation in the game directed by García. Note that this initiative aims, in addition to giving visibility, to raise funds to restore the church.
Not only did it attract the attention of the Swedish study, but the president of the Friends of Villamorón association, Pedro Francisco, contacted Gabriel so that he actively collaborated in the effective reconstruction of the temple.
Although Mojang’s objective is to get a little closer to the Spanish-speaking public, it also indirectly gives visibility to certain regions of Spain that suffer from the phenomenon of Empty Spain, in addition to giving the video game a playful value.