[game_preservation] Digital Game Canon page expansion

[Andrew Armstrong]

Hey Henry,

That would be most beneficial, if I can get information off that then 
I'd be able to ask about any missing bits. I don't see why the 
presentations couldn't go on the wiki or Preservation page as a 
historical reference, with permission of course, in addition to the 
information I could add to the wiki.

For the only preservation and historical SIG in the IGDA, um, I'm shamed 
to say I'm actually writing up what I can gather for the history, which 
doesn't quite seem right, so this is a great step forward!

Andrew

Henry Lowood wrote:

> 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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