Interview
Kay Wilke
By Serge Pierro
The Man Behind Yucata.de
“Kay Wilke is the owner of Yucata.de, a popular online board game site.”
What made you want to create a site that allowed players to play popular hobby board games? In 2001, when yucata.de went online, I had some spare time and wanted to learn web technologies. I’ve always been an avid player, so the them of the site was obvious. I’ve picked a rather simple game, I had played before and started. I never planned that 15 years later we would have over 100 games online and that so many players would also have contributed by programming for the site. Otherwise I would have called the site “WorldOfBoardGames” or something similar instead of naming it after the first game. I never planned to add a second game :)
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What are your favorite games, both onsite and off? Obviously that varies over time. Offsite Eclipse, Terra Mystica, Galaxy Trucker and Smallworld are long time favorites. Online, I am testing new games before they go online. But Thunderstone is probably special to me.
Kay Wilke Owner www.yucata.de
Game Nite Issue #12
The site has some great games, such as Thurn and Taxis, Russian Railroads, Glen More, Antike Duellum, The Voyages of Marco Polo, El Grande, Luna, etc. How do yo go about choosing what games to make available on the site? Especially those that aren’t available on other sites.