[game_preservation] Digital Game Canon page expansion

[Henry Lowood]

Hi Andrew,

I do have versions of the presentations for all but one of the 
speakers.  I think a couple are powerpoint, and a couple are 
not.   If you want, I can check to make sure the speakers gave 
permission to post, then send you the presentations. That might 
help.   Let me know if that seems like a good idea.

Also, there were thousands (really) of posts to a number of boards -- 
slashdot had a huge discussion about the list, but there were also 
smaller discussions that were interesting, such as grandtextauto.

Henry

At 01:37 PM 7/30/2007, Andrew Armstrong 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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Henry Lowood, Ph.D.
Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections
Curator for Germanic Collections; Film & Media Collections
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