[game_preservation] Arthur C. Clarke dies, aged 90

[Andrew Armstrong]

Hey,

> I honestly don't want to disrespect the guy or start a big argument 

> over this, but I don't believe Arthur C. Clark is a game developer and 

> therefore he doesn't belong on the wiki.

As noted before, we said we'd discuss it at some point, and set 
guidelines before the project went "public". Notably, I think that 
industry related figures, not just developers, but some publishers, 
distributors and journalists too, might be relevant. Influencers are 
slightly different...

* Developers - make the games, obviously the IGDA's focus is on this 
regarding memorials. No argument here ;-)
* Publishers - pay people to make the games, and often do get involved 
in production. No arguments here ;-)
* Journalists - videogame journalists I guess. Many have real 
friendships with developers, many more are good critics of it or work on 
more then just reviews (opinion pieces, interviews, history...), so are 
relevant to add. This is obviously a "yes" from most circles of course.
* "Influencers" - Outside the direct production industry - those who do 
not directly come up on credits of games I guess! These would include, I 
think, other game designers, fiction writers (and genre creators!), and 
so forth. Also include here major /players /of games, and figures who 
influence it in other ways - videogame lawyers for instance.

Any categories I'm missing? Maybe players and "lawyers, etc." would be a 
more formally recognised "industry related" type of category compared to 
influencers?

* Industry related and well known figures - Lawyers and consultants, 
players, etc.
* "Influencers" - as above

Also; I added Joseph Weizenbaum 
<http://www.igda.org/wiki/Memorials/Joseph_Weizenbaum> recently. He 
didn't directly make a game (well, maybe he did ^_^ ), but did make 
Eliza (huge AI and game influence there), and so academics who make work 
that influences (or is built upon for) games should be included too 
right? So an academic category too, probably is worthwhile (they don't 
get credited in games, but do produce a lot of related work and may be 
well known in industry). As said previously, the teachers too, might be 
added - such as Dave Arneson.

* Academics - Videogame industry academics, or ones who did related or 
influential work.

Some designers and writers would argue for Arthur C. Clarke...I'm not 
sure myself, like I said :-) - since it isn't much work, at the moment I 
am happy to add him still.

This is certainly an interesting discussion/topic - I am happy we simply 
have a short discussion before adding "fringe" people. Certainly I am 
not going to go back and list a ton of people who have been dead for 
years who had some small influence but were not directly in the 
industry, but will be looking at future ones as they occur - is a case 
by case basis okay for these? (such as Arthur C. Clarke)

I bow to your greater knowledge in this area of course, and if you want 
to head the project, and decide these more personally, all the better. 
At the moment it's easy to discuss here anyway for each case!

Andrew
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