Interview: Alex aka Blackoak from Shmuplations.com

11 Feb 2020 — Filed in: Interviews

Part of the background image from shmuplations.com

I speak to the creator of Shmuplations.com, a large repository of translated interviews with Japanese game developers, about his approach to doing the translations, his insights on the Japanese games industry, and the highs and lows (and struggles) of running a time-intensive side hustle.

This is the second entry in a new series of interviews I'm running alongside the main show — every month(ish) I'll talk to a different person who's exploring games history, in one way or another, to learn about the many ways people are preserving the games industry's past as well as to further our understanding of how this wonderful medium (and the industry that's built around it) has come to be the way it is now.
See full show notes and episode player…

Tags: shmuplations, games history explorers, japanese games, 1980s, 1990s, game design