Mike Siggins
Mike Siggins´ name is one of the most recognized within the gaming hobby. For many years he edited and published Sumo magazine, which pioneered in-depth coverage of European games. He has also written for
The Game Cabinet, Games International, Games Magazine, Interactive Fiction, Perfidious Albion and Strategy Plus. He served as a member of the editorial board of Games & Puzzles, and on the Daily Telegraph
Game of the Year panel. He currently writes Gamer´s Notebook, for Battlegames and occasionally for Counter Magazine.
Mike has been playing all sorts of games for 35 years and writing about them for the last 25. He works at a large English university, and as a consultant in game design. He has several game designs to
his credit, and he is also developing boardgames for a major publisher, specialising in licensed properties.
His main gaming interests are innovative and thematic game systems, sports and historical subjects, and narrative atmosphere. His other interests include books, history, cinema, baseball, computer graphics,
and cycling. Mike was born in 1961 and lives in The Fens, England.
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Mike Clifford
Mike Clifford is a renown author, having scribed innumerable articles on general boardgames, wargames and sports games for a variety of magazines. Mike was a regular contributor to Sumo throughout its run. When Sumo folded, he was the moving spirit behind the launch of Counter.
His interest in boardgames goes back to early childhood and they became the hobby he never grew out of, with the area of interest gradually broadening as he discovered wargames, sportsgames and the British classics that Intellect Games produced in the early and mid seventies. By the late eighties he had become aware of the games being produced in Germany and around ten years ago his first trip to Essen turned him into a serious enthusiast.
Married with four children, he is a writer and businessman, who was born in London in 1948 and now lives with his family in Sussex, on the South Coast of England.
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Han Heidema
Han Heidema (1943) is editor-in-chief of Spel!, the Dutch games magazine issued by games club Ducosim. He is one of the founder-members of the ESG (Eurpean Society for Games-collectors), honorary member of the Wiener Spiele-Akademie, jury member of the Nederlandse Spellenprijs and designer of various railway games, most of which have been published by Winsome Games. About 500 of his collection of 3500 games have a railway-related subject.
After his Chemistry study at Utrecht University he joined Unilever Research, where he had jobs as Scientific Editor, Sensory Scientist and Statistical Consultant. He took an early retirement in 2001. He now lives in Wolfheze, a small village close to Arnhem, close to the dropping and landing zones of Operation Market Garden.
Ferdinand de Cassan
Ferdinand de Cassan is well known and respected throughout Europe as an avid gamer and is Chairman of the "Austrian Games Festival (Spielefest) in Vienna", which is the second largest public game-event in Europe with 62.000 visitors each year.
Ferdinand was born in Mistelbach, Austria in 1949. From childhood his leisure-time-activity has been logical/mathematical puzzles and/or games and boardgames. He began writing about games with an article in "Games & Puzzles" in September 1976 and the first issue of "WIN Spiele Magazine", of which he was a major contributor, was published in 1977. He was also a contributor of logical puzzles to a Business-Journal in the 1980's.
Ferdinand started the collection of games in the mid-70's and now has a collection that is approaching 14,000 games. He has many personal contacts to early European gamers and was involved in many European games events. He was a friend of many European gaming pioneers, including Walter Luc Haas.
In the mid 80's to early 90's, Ferdinand was the originator and organizer of the "Game Collectors Meetings" and the organizer of the "Intergame" at the huge "Spiel" convention in Essen, Germany. From the mid 90's, these games activities were concentrated in Austria.
Ferdinand earned a degree in Ecomoics from the University of Vienna and is the CEO of the family tree nursery "Grumer Rosen", which specializes in rose bushes. He is married to his wife Dagmar since 1982 and has 2 children, Philipp (1983) and Simone (1986).
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