Interviews with Gamers From Around the World

Once upon a time, there were only a handful of websites devoted to German-style games. Flush with discovery, I frequented them all regularly, lapping up every crumb of info about my newfound hobby. Nowadays it is a completely different story. Gaming seems to have just exploded on the Internet and it is simply hard to keep up with it all. If something interesting doesn’t find its way to me via forum emails or RSS feeds, I’m likely to miss it. Once in a while though, I’m sitting at my computer procrastinating and I’ll click on some of those old bookmarks and discover some worthwhile goodies I’ve been missing. This is a perfect example:

Rick Heli’s Spotlight on Games website has always been a great place to read capsule reviews of games, and if you poke around you’ll find lots of other interesting articles as well. Recently, he has posted a series of interviews with gamers from different countries that are really fascinating. Each interview includes not only personal stuff, but also a perspective of gaming in that particular country – the prevalence and how it is perceived. Numerous links are also included with each interview. Check out the pictures of the homemade Settlers of Catan by Brazilian Mario Lucio Zico!

So far, Rick has interviewed gamers from Brazil, Australia, Japan, Italy, Singapore and Ireland and it sounds like he plans to do more. I really hope so. I find it fascinating to get a glimpse of the hobby in these faraway, exotic (to this Texan at least!) places. It also gives a me a sense of connection to a worldwide community that includes many cultures, a very nice feeling indeed :-)

Posted by Susan Rozmiarek at June 12, 2004 2:31 PM