Last summer (2011) I had the honor of being chosen by Flavio Escribano (founder of ARSGAMES) to take part in the “Videojuegos en el Cervantes” (“Video games at the Cervantes”) project, which was held with great success in ten cities across the world. The project comprised an interactive exhibit titled “Pasado y presente del videojuego español” (“Past and present of the Spanish video game”) as well as a project presentation by a guest artist. On this occasion, I had the pleasure of introducing The Gamer Inside to Porto Alegre, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília.
Thanks to this journey, I discovered the richness of Brazilian culture, the multiple contrasts of its people, and the fascinating love/hate story that has developed between video games and Brazil, a country in which interactive entertainment has been embraced by a tremendously enthusiastic audience from the beginning, but industrially neglected and politically misunderstood until very recently.
Circumstances like these have given me enough reasons to take on the adventure of expanding the reach of The Gamer Inside. TGI has been an international project since its first few months, but during this trip I realized that creating a new, more specific sub-series would be totally worth the effort, focusing on stories directly intertwined with a unique culture and history…that of Brazil and its gamers.
The result of almost a month-long stay in Brazil’s four aforementioned cities, and interviewing more than 30 people, I leave you with the first episode of the series, from the Memories channel. In it, you will see the following interviewees:
Instant capture from the new intro made by our collaborator Joan Godoy.
It is a pleasure to show you the pilot episode of this sub-series, after a stay of almost a month in Brazil interviewing more than 30 people. It is part of the memories’ channel, in which the following interviewees show up:
- Stephano Arnhold – Chairman at Tectoy
- Moacyr Alves Junior – Videogame collector and President at ACIGAMES
- Nino Megadriver – Founder and frontman at Megadriver
- Roger Tavares – Owner at Gamecultura
- Ricardo Wilmers – Videogame collector
- Everson Siqueira – Indie game developer
- Felipe Sanches – President and Co-founder at Garoa Hacker Clube
- Sergio Lobato – Marketing veterinary consultant
- Théo Azevedo – Editor in-chief at UOL Jogos
- Lívia Amorim - Hacker
- Luis Matheus Amorim – Kumon student
- Tiago Santos – Hotel receptionist
I hope you enjoy the final work. And if you do, please don’t hesitate to help us spread the word. You will be helping our project make its way among the thousands of works available on the web. For the moment, the episode features subtitles in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Regards,
Jesús Fabre and the whole team from The Gamer Inside.
Translated by: León Miura
Cross-checked by: Ángela Fernández Pérez
