[game_preservation] game_preservation Digest, Vol 26, Issue 20

[Andrew Armstrong]

Fine, fine. :)

Check the archives to find out some recent discussions - you'll see we 
discuss a lot of random stuff on game history. Since IGDA membership 
isn't required for joining any of the SIG's or helping them, you might 
not know about our IGDA wiki and main pages:

http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG (projects are documented 
here, along with resource lists)
http://www.igda.org/preservation/ (where I post a variety of article and 
interesting links. The layout sucks, it'll change eventually)

The wiki has the main projects we intend to start in the coming years. 
This whitepaper is a priority and is based on the "Importance of 
archival work", so why recording videogame history is important. Next 
year, it'll be work on a whitepaper on /how /to achieve this in a 
variety of ways :-)

Any interest in anything on the projects list (and this still goes for 
you lurkers!) email me or Henry Lowood about it or post here. The 
whitepaper isn't even in draft form, so any ideas on what should go into 
it, before any meetings are held between everyone feel free to post them 
(I myself contribute links and other articles to check rather then 
content, heh).

Andrew

Julia Brasil wrote:

> Hi Chris!

>

> Welcome to the mailing list! Your article was very interesting and I'm 

> glad you decided to join us! We are currently working on ideas for the 

> 2008 Whitepaper which would work as a goal statement for the SIG and 

> touch on the issues regarding game history. Also, we were considering 

> having a monthly newsletter like some of the other SIGs, any of which 

> would more than welcome your assistance.

>

> I probably forgot something, being new here myself, but I'm sure 

> Andrew will come about and greet your properly.

>

> ~Julia 

>      

>

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Chris Lepine <chris at artfulgamer.com 

> <mailto:chris at artfulgamer.com>> wrote:

>

>     Hi folks, I'd just like to introduce myself to the list. Andrew

>     invited me to check out the mailing list and see if I can

>     contribute something to the Game Preservation projects. Thanks for

>     the comments on the article - although it is quite sketchy (at

>     best) since I could not go into much depth with some of the

>     problems I introduce there.

>

>     If there's anything I can contribute in terms of writing or

>     research - especially in the realm of video/computer game history

>     - I'd be happy to. In future years I intend to teach a couple of

>     courses on the history and psychology of video/computer games and

>     narrative, so anything I can do now is always helpful prep work

>     for the future.

>

>     Cheers!

>     - Chris

>

>     _http://www.artfulgamer.com_ <http://www.artfulgamer.com/>

>

>     /'in search of the poetic and lyrical in video games...'/

>

>

>

>>     Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:02:24 -0600

>>     From: "Captain Commando" <evilcowclone at gmail.com

>>     <mailto:evilcowclone at gmail.com>>

>>     Subject: Re: [game_preservation] 2008 Whitepaper

>>     To: "IGDA Game Preservation SIG" <game_preservation at igda.org

>>     <mailto:game_preservation at igda.org>>

>>     Message-ID:

>>     <b96706b70804281202j4b9ec7e1ka8ebbeea251a476 at mail.gmail.com

>>     <mailto:b96706b70804281202j4b9ec7e1ka8ebbeea251a476 at mail.gmail.com>>

>>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

>>

>>     I agree - definitely a good resource. Let's see if he's interested in

>>     contributing. Heck, lots of great material on this blog, too.

>>

>>     -DM

>>

>>     On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Andrew Armstrong

>>     <andrew at aarmstrong.org <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>>

>>     wrote:

>>

>>>     On the topic of the whitepaper, I forgot about this (mostly

>>>     recent) post

>>>     by Chris at the Artful Gamer titled: "Revitalizing Dead Culture:

>>>     Why Game

>>>     History Matters". Find it here:

>>>     http://www.artfulgamer.com/2008/04/22/revitalizing-dead-culture-why-game-history-matters/.

>>>     I finally read it today :)

>>>

>>>     (Perhaps he might be interested in helping the whitepaper too?)

>>>

>>>     Finding other written existing resources relating to the

>>>     whitepaper and

>>>     looking at them is a necessity - can anyone contribute any more?

>>>

>>>     Andrew

>>>

>>>

>

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