[game_preservation] Gary Gygax passed away

[Andrew Armstrong]

I'll add it as a link, thanks! (it's in list form however, sigh). I 
won't add your comment however ;)

Still looking for a *biography/eulogy* if anyone knows of a suitable one 
(who I can contact the author for permission to reproduce) or want to 
write a short one for it, please say :)

Andrew

Captain Commando wrote:

> 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 <mailto: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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>>>     Henry Lowood, Ph.D.

>>>     Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections;

>>>      Film & Media Collections

>>>     HRG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall

>>>     Stanford University Libraries

>>>     Stanford CA 94305-6004

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