[game_preservation] Gary Gygax passed away

[Henry Lowood]

Andrew,

I hadn't heard about that -- big news and I hope we can organize a 
memorial page or obtain permission to use information from another 
site.   I'm about to leave on a short trip, but if any help with his 
page is needed next week, I'm happy to pitch in.

Henry

At 10:36 AM 3/4/2008, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>News on Gary Gygax's death. I've only heard him really speak in 

>Futurama (a great appearance I might add), but damn, he was a big 

>game developer, and must have been a great guy.

>

>:-(

>

>News post on 

><http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/04/1750206>Slashdot. 

>The forum (his publisher) which reported it is really overwhelmed, 

>but 

><http://www.freeyabb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=4373&mforum=trolllordgames>this 

>is the link.

>

>And a quick note; I think this is most certainly someone who 

>deserves a <http://www.igda.org/wiki/Memorials>memorial page. Once 

>an obituary is published, I'll see if the person who does one wants 

>to have it copied onto the IGDA site, unless anyone wants to do one 

>on this mailing list we can post of course, the game developer angle 

>would be a nice thing.

>

>Andrew

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