IV Congreso de Podgaming in Elche

Nov 1, 2026

On 24 October Elche hosted the IV Congreso de Podgaming, a congress about video games and gaming podcasts that GAMELX holds together with the city council. The organisers let us take part in the indie developers' area, and we set up a small stand there with our app. We really enjoyed the congress, and at the stand we could watch children of all ages try the app in person.

In the app you can do whatever you like with the instruments and wires, and this freedom unsettles adults, while in children it wakes curiosity. For the first five minutes or so, children take out every instrument in turn, swing the wires about, play, fool around and try in every way to break the app. Once they have passed this initiation rite, they start connecting lamps and the first thing they do is short-circuit something, so that the lamp burns out or the protection of the power supply trips. After working with different circuits, children start to act by intuition, and you can see that they understand what a closed circuit means and the difference between series and parallel connection.

At a congress devoted to video games, the children were drawn in by an educational app. What held them most were the glowing LEDs and lamps, and also the Lissajous figures on the oscilloscope screen: the children kept trying to get new figures. Many of them, once they had figured out the app, started helping other children, and you could see that they know how to work in a team and are glad to cooperate.

The high level of digital skills of Spanish children also caught our eye. They handle a mouse and keyboard with confidence, are just as at ease with a touch screen, and do not lose their temper when something does not work out. This matches what is known about the country as a whole: according to the National Statistics Institute, in 2025 about 97% of Spanish children aged 10 to 15 used a computer, and the government programme Código Escuela 4.0 brings programming and robotics into schools from preschool classes to secondary school.

At the stand we talked with parents and guardians, and also with people from organisations that support children with special needs. When we asked whether children are interested in learning about electricity, they told us that many are interested in it at home too, where they have small experiment kits.

We were very glad to see that some children spent about an hour with the app.

Event page: IV Congreso de Podgaming at GAMELX