[game_preservation] Gary Gygax passed away

[Henry Lowood]

On reduction to numbers: Strat-o-Matic maybe, but one also has to 
take a look at wargames, both miniatures and boardgames (e.g. Charles 
Roberts at Avalon-Hill), areas that directly influenced Gygax. 
Roberts' Tactics was designed in 1952.   Strat-o-Matic was formed in 1961.

Henry

At 10:57 AM 3/8/2008, 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>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 

><<mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>andrew at aarmstrong.org> wrote:

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

>

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

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

>>>>t. 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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Henry Lowood, Ph.D.
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  Film & Media Collections
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Stanford University Libraries
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