I am astounded by the fact that the world can show its universality in playing these games by using the English language as a common denominator. Whether a person is from Sweden, UK, France, Spain, Germany, Philippines, Japan or China or other locations, this website does a better job than the UN. We all have fun. As a game maker I would like to know "How universal are American movies, American television, American products and American language nuances to the world as a whole." If there is a picture of Jack Benny, Bob Hope, or Brad Pitt in a game, are they well known to the world? I was lucky in life to be exposed to Europe and many different languages that I dealt with during my school years in Austria. I amazed myself when I played these games in other languages as to my score. Danish numbers - 74%, Dutch colors wow! A little English and German similarity. I sometimes think that maybe the games that I create might be too hard with places like Coney Island in it - five people have a score out of 20 plays (they are usually the people who post here in the forum) - yet Great Books of Literature has been played 745 times with 8 pages of scores. I never read the Aenid or some of the other Great Books of the Western World. I've tried to cover an expanse of game topics to see what works and what doesn't. British ocean liners do better than French ocean liners. French kings do better than British kings and queens. Any ideas out there or experiences from other game makers. Some games have a large number of plays on hard topics. Does that game circulate in the Mittenwald Nachtrichten the day before publication so everyone in town plays it the next day on their computer!
Universality of these games (2 posts)
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Universality of these games
Posted: 2007-09-22 05:16:20 # Here in Germany Hollywood movies are more popular than German productions, though they come in German synchronizations. American actors are well known.
People (especially the younger generations of course) usually listen to English music, and many (maybe most) German bands sing in English, too (bigger market). In Bulgaria Bulgarian music is way more popular than English music. Whereas in Germany it's mostly "German or English", there it is "Bulgarian or <English or Serbian or German or Greek or ...>").
Germany in some issues has a very America-centric (and therefore somewhat limited) view of the world. Britney Spears's excesses are all over the news day after day.
Next topic: I think some games are played often because they are beeing promoted on other sites on the net. If the game is mentioned in a forum, after little time the number of plays per day usually swiftly decreases.