[game_preservation] Digital Game Museum?

[Andrew Armstrong]

Hmm, that I think is worth asking about, I know before we chose that 
logo we made sure no one else was using something similar...I know we're 
not going to change ours anytime soon unless someone wants to make a new 
one :)

I mean we have been using it for a fair few years now, and of course 
while places still pop up without knowing about this group it's a bit 
bizarre how similar it is. At least contact them about us existing!

Andrew

On 01/05/2011 03:50, Henry Lowood wrote:

> 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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