[game_preservation] Digital Game Museum?

[Henry Lowood]

Alex,

That's interesting. The Editor-in-chief is George Jones, right?  Maybe, 
like me, he thought the piece WAS about the MADE. It really was 
incredibly short on details and that's what I thought at first.  Another 
point is that I know the Computer Museum people pretty well, and the 
woman you met (if she's the one listed on the website) used to work 
there -- yet I haven't heard about this at all from the Computer Museum 
folks.  Which reinforces your impression that this operation is not tied 
in with other efforts.

I'll send an e-mail to inquire about the logo and suggest that they 
might want to consider working with other groups.

Henry

On 5/1/2011 11:25 AM, Alex Handy wrote:

> 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 <mailto: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 <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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>>>         Henry Lowood

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>>>           Film&  Media Collections

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>>>     Devin Monnens

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>>>

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>>

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>>     Henry Lowood

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