[game_preservation] Digital Game Museum?

[Alex Handy]

The DGM was at GDC. We (the MADE) talked to an older lady from their group,
and it was kinda a weird conversation.

It sounded like they'd been doing this for a while, but the lady was quite
bitter when I mentioned other efforts. She made it sound like they didn't
want anything to do with the SIG and Preserving Virtual Worlds. Just the
impression I got. She then asked us if we had any space to store their stuff
because it was all in a garage right now.

We're open to collaborating with them, but the impression I got from meeting
one of their peoples at GDC was that they weren't terribly interested in
what else was being done out there.

I could be completely wrong about the org, but that's what my first
impression was.

Also, oddly, the EiC of Maximum PC is on the MADE's advisory board... He
doesn't write about us though....

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


>  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> 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

>>

>> --

>> Henry Lowood

>> Curator, History of Science&  Technology Collections;

>>   Film&  Media Collections

>> HRG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall

>> 650-723-4602; lowood at stanford.edu

>> http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood

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> --

> Henry Lowood

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>    Film & Media Collections

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