[game_preservation] Arthur C. Clarke dies, aged 90

[Andrew Armstrong]

Hey Henry,

Glad you could contribute, Gary Gygax's page is up, but doesn't have a 
memorial/obituary. Do you want to work on it perhaps? Or do you know 
anyone who would?

(Offer is open to anyone still! I just remember Henry saying he'd help 
when he was back).

Andrew

Henry Lowood wrote:

> I don't have anything to add on Arthur C. Clarke, but I do have some 

> thoughts on Gary Gygax. Bottom line: I think he is a shoo-in for a page:

>

> 1. He was a game designer.

> 2. The basic role-playing system in D&D is evident in the majority 

> (easily) of digital role-playing games.  Even today in WoW players 

> sometimes speak of "rolling" a new character.

> 3. Any number of digital games were, of course, directly based on D&D 

> (mostly licensed), not just the system but also the content.

> 4. Somebody will need to back up on my memory on this, but wasn't 

> Gygax a consultant on some roleplaying games or MMO?  It's not a 

> crucial point really; pts. 1-3 easily justify including him among the 

> memorials, but I just seem to remember reading something about this in 

> /Computer Games/ or another magazine, maybe an interview with Gygax.

> 5. A piece of indirect evidence for his impact on digital games is the 

> vast number of tributes already on-line from developers, writers and 

> players, from Raph Koster's blog to TerraNova and the mmo sites.

>

> I hope you all caught the piece in Newsweek, by the way (including 

> N'gai Kroal):

> http://www.newsweek.com/id/119782/

>

> Henry

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