[game_preservation] Developer Interviews

[Andrew Armstrong]

Well, it's worth asking, since they did put them up temporarily it'd be 
nice to have access to them. I guess an archive can keep stuff to 
itself, just a bit backwards when it comes to media like this being kept 
offline :-)

Just goes to show how important it is to have initiatives within the SIG 
by it's members to get our own interviews and oral histories so that 
they can be properly shared, eh?

Andrew

bcain at criticalmassinteractive.com wrote:

> All of these are owned by UT and they are not willing to share, to my knowledge.

>

> And yes, I have asked Warren directly.

>

> Perhaps a letter writing campaign to UT? :)

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> From: Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>

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> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:12:23 

> To:IGDA Game Preservation SIG <game_preservation at igda.org>

> Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Developer Interviews

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> Hey,

>  

>  I actually emailed the UT archiver Zach about this (since, no, I don't know Warrens contact details ;-) ), in an attempt to put them up at the Internet Archive. If he can help, then they'll be mirrored there and I'll tell the group :)

>  

>  I'm downloading the torrent now having missed the original opportunity, but one of the files is incomplete. If anyone can provide the last file, that'd be great, as even if it can't be hosted at the IA for some reason I'd love to watch it ;-)

>  

>  If anyone knows of other interviews that could be archived (I'm currently working on Kikizo's interviews at the moment) please email the group or me! This is an ongoing thing, of course, so keep it in mind and permission is needed, so I can't go around adding things without asking sadly.

>  

>  Thanks Alan,

>  

>  Andrew

>  

>  Alan Au wrote: Hi All - Sorry I haven't been very active with the preservation SIG lately. Anyhow, I spotted a piece on the RockPaperShotgun site today that talks about Warren Spector having recorded some interviews with various industry luminaries, and the problem that the videos had disappeared due to a clerical mixup. (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=1253 <http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=1253> ) I was thinking it might worthwhile trying to maintain a mirror of that content, in case it should disappear again. That is, we still sort of take for granted that devs are easily accessible, but as evidenced by the recent discussion about memorials, it might be worthwhile archiving some of their thoughts on how the industry has evolved. Just my $.02. - Alan 

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