[game_preservation] Digital Game Canon page expansion

[Simon Carless]

We also have Spacewar:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1433/down_the_hyperspatial_tube_.php

...and Zork:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1499/the_history_of_zork.php

...'official' histories on Gamasutra.com

We also have Star Raiders and (hopefully!) Sensible World Of Soccer
allegedly coming soon.

Regards,
Simon.
[Publisher, Gamasutra.]

On 7/30/07, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org> wrote:

>

> Hey all,

>

> For the Digital Game Canon page I've added what I can find out:

> http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG/Digital_Game_Canon

>

> However, I basically don't have the information for the reasons behind

> each game being chosen. I've found a few mentions (see the articles I

> added at the end of the page) but no real concrete what happened at GDC.

> I don't know if this is important, but its a very opinionated thing

> anyway.

>

> I actually think having the Digital Game Canon page have a set of

> subpages for each game (so information can be collected for them there,

> which could go into many more areas for each game unlike other Wiki's

> and sites might, and at the very least list what the SIG is doing for

> the game) rather then what I have put there so far. This will happen, if

> there is other information to make it worthwhile.

>

> I also guess this will be a regular thing each year? (Is it?) and I also

> have no idea about the other aspects (Congress Library, progress with

> the games history documenting and media retrieval if any). I am happy to

> add all the information I can to the wiki.

>

> Otherwise, I will start to make new pages similar to the other SIG's. I

> presume that since there is low/very individual activity, there isn't

> any meetings (conference call, online or otherwise) to document, and no

> other projects being worked on that need to be put up, but if there is,

> anyone can email me and I'll help add it.

>

> One other thing; I don't know the history of the SIG, which since it is

> a SIG based on history, might be very worthwhile to add at some point!

>

> Andrew

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