[game_preservation] Digital Game Museum?

[Henry Lowood]

Devin,

Your last sentence: That's what made me wonder, too.  I suspect that 
Halfhill wrote the piece, because he was asked to be on the Board and it 
probably seemed like a good thing to him.   However, it's clear from the 
write-up that he knew very little about the Museum.  Something didn't 
seem quite right when I read it, which is why I poked around.

By the way, when searching google one of the results pointed to a logo 
design contest, so I think it is possible that somebody "borrowed" the 
SIG's design and the Museum just didn't check.

Henry

On 4/30/2011 7:35 PM, Devin Monnens wrote:

> Good point. I haven't heard of these guys. As for the logo, 

> considering how few people seem to know about our SIG, I wouldn't be 

> surprised if this was independently created, so I don't think they 

> stole it. However, I can see problems with this causing confusion (is 

> Digital Game Museum part of the IGDA Game Preservation SIG? Is the SIG 

> part of DGM?) though I don't think it's a dreadful issue. Of course, 

> our logo doesn't have a trademark on it, so it would be more out of 

> courtesy if we asked them to change it.

>

> Actually, I'm also wondering why this new group got a writeup on 

> Maximum PC rather than any of the bigger archives in Silicon Valley. I 

> mean, great that a new archive can get coverage, but aren't there a 

> half-dozen more in that area?

>

> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu 

> <mailto:lowood at stanford.edu>> wrote:

>

>     All,

>

>     I just read a short piece by Tom Halfhill in Maximum PC about a

>     new "Digital Game Museum" in Silicon Valley.  At first, I assumed

>     that he meant the MADE, but he also said he was on the Board, and

>     I didn't remember anything about him in connection with the MADE.

>       So I looked it up the old-fashioned way: a Google search.

>

>     Well, here it is:

>     http://www.digitalgamemuseum.org/

>

>     It seems to be very, very new -- maybe only a couple of weeks.  I

>     don't find any dates earlier than April 29th on the site, though

>     the pages are copyright 2010. The website is very thin on content,

>     and the small collection is tiny -- probably just a couple of

>     small, random gifts.  I briefly considered that this might even be

>     a joke of some sort.

>

>     While considering that possibility something caught my eye that

>     bothered me: Check out the logo.  Look familiar?

>

>     Does anybody know anything about this operation?  What do you

>     think about the logo?  Is it something we (I guess that means me)

>     should ask them about?

>

>     Henry

>

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