[game_preservation] Gary Gygax passed away

[Andrew Armstrong]

Right, I'll keep a note that your interested if I can't obtain another 
eulogy, I'll try and get a page setup tonight (along with another for 
Greg Bick who is a Canadian developer who passed away recently too, who 
I have talked to someone about).

Andrew

Henry Lowood wrote:

> 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 Slashdot 

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

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

>> this is the link. 

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

>>

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

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