[game_preservation] Game developers memorial page?
Henry Lowood
lowood at stanford.edu
Thu Feb 7 12:20:52 EST 2008
Andrew,
Ok, this will be on the agenda then.
Off topic but: there are a few memorial pages out there for
well-known players of various games, some of which include replay
files of their games. These are interesting documents, and I'm going
to be talking about replaying a DOOM game I found this way at a
workshop on campus next week about the disappearance of virtual worlds.
Henry
At 07:15 AM 2/7/2008, Andrew Armstrong wrote:
>Right, the IGDA general preservation email will be the contact point
>for this, until we can sort otherwise. If you are able to be the
>primary contact, I'll see if I can get me and Henry CCed in so we
>don't miss anything and can help out.
>
>Thanks both for the updates, and we will discuss it at GDC and make
>sure that IGDA people know of it at least (I'll try not to be morbid
>about it - I expect off-handedly saying "We're creating, you know,
>death pages, memorials, in case you die!!!" is not an apt way to
>start discussion). I can get an example complete by then, although
>it will lack the additional comments that of course will be a focal
>point of the project.
>
>Andrew
>
>Captain Commando wrote:
>>Henry,
>>
>>Like I told Andrew, I wouldn't mind being contact, but A. I need a
>>better contact e-mail and B. I need to renew my IGDA membership,
>>two things that likely won't get fixed, at least until late Feb. :)
>>
>>-Devin
>>
>>On Feb 6, 2008 11:30 PM, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu
>><mailto:lowood at stanford.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> Andrew,
>>
>> I don't mind being the contact for now. I think it would be
>> great to bring this up as a discussion point at GDC. Maybe
>> someone else would like to be involved and would be willing to
>> serve as a contact. Inclusivity is good as far as I am concerned.
>>
>> A general point here: Everyone should feel free to bring ideas
>> about projects like this, things that we can help with via IGDA
>> and would serve not just preservation, but also historical memory.
>>
>> Henry
>>
>>
>> At 06:33 PM 2/6/2008, Andrew Armstrong wrote:
>>> Heh, I forgot to send this to the group. It now has been! Henry;
>>> there was a brief question in there about email setups, and the
>>> rest of the group; any suggestions, offers of help or knowledge
>>> of memorial pages are very much welcome. Spread the word too;
>>> this should not be something that is kept in the dark!
>>>
>>> And I'll use some info from the Metroid database as a base for
>>> some test pages at least. We'll wait until after GDC to get it
>>> properly started, but it'd be nice to get some basics down
>>> (templates, page layouts, required content) so it was ready
>>> before then.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>> Captain Commando wrote:
>>>> Andrew,
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, set me up as contact - but I'd kind of like it if you
>>>> don't finalize the e-mail until at least after the 22nd! I still
>>>> need to renew my IGDA membership and finish my MFA. Actually,
>>>> I'll probably have to get a better contact e-mail, probably see
>>>> if I can get something set up through deserthat.com
>>>> <http://deserthat.com> < http://deserthat.com
>>>> <http://deserthat.com/>> (which needs to get fixed up, like this
>>>> week).
>>>>
>>>> You are welcome to use my information from the Metroid Database.
>>>> Actually, I was surprised to find out Moby Games has cited our
>>>> article on Mark Haigh-Hutchinson as a resource. I'd personally
>>>> like to help out with the Gunpei Yokoi page as I think that's a
>>>> really important place to start as he was so well known.
>>>>
>>>> -Devin
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 6, 2008 4:37 PM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org
>>>> <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org> < mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Devin / SIG,
>>>>
>>>> I've finished my exams, so have a week to work on stuff - this
>>>> memorial
>>>> page project would be worth doing. Devin; can I use your
>>>> website as
>>>> sources for a few memorial pages to get it going?
>>>>
>>>> And if this gets working it'd be worth having a specific
>>>> IGDA email to
>>>> use ("memorials at igda.org <mailto:memorials at igda.org> <
>>>> mailto:memorials at igda.org>" or
>>>> something), unless you're happy to be the
>>>> contact for this Henry? Making it easy for non-IGDA members to
>>>> contribute is a key part of this project.
>>>>
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- The sleep of Reason produces monsters.
>>>>
>>>> "Until next time..."
>>>> Captain Commando
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>>--
>>The sleep of Reason produces monsters.
>>
>>"Until next time..."
>>Captain Commando
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