[game_preservation] Gary Gygax passed away

[Captain Commando]

Andrew,

1UP has a special on the top 5 things they think Gary did for games:

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3166835

However, the whole reduction to numbers bit came from Stat-o-Matic Baseball
and was a facet of computer programming through the 50s, particularly if you
look at Cold War simulations (and it still underlies the overly optimistic
concept that one can digitize the whole world). But so much for nitpicking -
stats-based character sheets is what they really meant to say!

-DM

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>
wrote:


>  Okay everyone, I've put up the page;

>

> http://www.igda.org/wiki/Memorials/Gary_Gygax

>

> *Biography/Eulogy still needed*, and you can email me directly if you want

> to add direct comments or something (or edit them in yourselves if you can

> at the bottom of the page) please do.

>

> I also added Greg Bick for those that know him, with a biography/eulogy

> provided kindly by Sim:

>

> http://www.igda.org/wiki/Memorials/Greg_Bick

>

> Andrew

>

> Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>

> 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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