[game_preservation] Ian Bogost on the 'thingness' of games

[Henry Lowood]

Devin,

that's what we are doing.  In fact, I'm working on the manifest this 
weekend.   It is not final, as the project still has some months to run, 
but I will try to remember to share it with this group, probably around 
the middle of next week.

Henry

Devin Monnens wrote:

> Ian Bogost recently gave a keynote in DiGRA on videogames and 

> ontology. In it, he argues that videogames may be defined as a 

> multitude of things, from code to plastics to experiences to cultural 

> phenomena.

>

> http://www.bogost.com/writing/videogames_are_a_mess.shtml

>

> I believe this brings up an interesting question that we've 

> encountered a few times in our discussions: what is it that we are 

> preserving?

>

> Is this question made any easier to answer once we consider videogames 

> as a multiplicity of objects? Obviously, not all of these elements are 

> preservable. Maybe we don't want to preserve some of these elements 

> anyway. Or maybe this gives us many things we would like to preserve 

> but are unable to preserve them all.

>

> Can we apply this to a case study, such as the preservation of Doom, 

> by breaking Doom into a multiplicity of objects? 

>

> -- 

> Devin Monnens

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