[game_preservation] game_preservation Digest, Vol 70, Issue 4

[John Sharp]

The Museum of the Moving Image is doing a show on Spacewar! and its influence that will open in February. 


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> From: Susan L Rojo <srojo at stanford.edu>

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> Hi Devon, 

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> You may already know but thought I would share just in case... 

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> Spacewar was one of the games preserved via the first Preserving Virtual Worlds project so Stanford has copy in the archives. 

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> Also, the CHM has a playable version of Spacewar on their website and a webpage about the game on the PDP-1. 

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> Best, 

> ~Susan 

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> ----- Original Message -----

> From: "Devin Monnens" <dmonnens at gmail.com> 

> To: "IGDA Game Preservation SIG" <game_preservation at igda.org> 

> Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 2:49:43 PM 

> Subject: [game_preservation] Fwd: 2012 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference - Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area 

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> The SW/TX PCA/ACA is looking for papers for Game Studies for 2012. 

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> Anyone up for a game history panel this year commemorating the 50th anniversary of Spacewar? The conference is held Feb 8-11, and the Science Museum in Albuquerque has a working Spacewar, I believe on an actual PDP-1 (in any case, Spacewar on an oscilloscope). 

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> Last year we did game preservation, but I think this is important enough to have a series of papers on Spacewar and the origins of computer and videogames. 

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> While we're at it, are there any special projects, panels, etc. proposed for Spacewar? Anyone propose any panels for GDC, or anything going on at the Computer History Museum? 

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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 

> From: Judd Ruggill < jruggill at gmail.com > 

> Date: Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:25 PM 

> Subject: 2012 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference - Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area 

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> Hi all: 

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> Attached is the CFP for the Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice 

> Area of the SW/TX PCA/ACA conference. Please feel free to pass it 

> along to any and all interested parties, and I hope you'll join us in 

> Albuquerque again. 

> 

> Cheers, 

> 

> Judd Ruggill, Area Chair 

> Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice 

> SW/TX PCA/ACA 

> http://swtxpca.org/ 

> _____ 

> 

> Call for Papers: Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area 

> 33rd Annual SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference 

> February 8-11, 2012 

> Albuquerque, NM 

> 

> The Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area welcomes paper, 

> panel, and other proposals on games (digital and otherwise) and their 

> study and development. 

> 

> Possible topics include (but are in no way limited to): 

> 

> Alternative reality games 

> Archiving and artifactual preservation 

> Competitive/clan gaming 

> Design and development 

> Economic and industrial histories and studies 

> Educational games and their pedagogies 

> Foreign language games and culture 

> Advertising (both in-game and out) 

> Game art/game-based art 

> Haptics and interface studies 

> Localization 

> Machinima 

> MOGs, MMOGs, and other forms of online/networked gaming 

> Performance 

> Pornographic games 

> Religion and games 

> Representations of race and gender 

> Representations of space and place 

> The rhetoric of games and game systems 

> Serious games 

> Strategy games 

> Table-top games and gaming 

> Technological, aesthetic, economic, and ideological convergence 

> Theories of play 

> Wireless and mobile gaming 

> 

> For paper proposals: Please submit a 250 word abstract and 

> biographical note about your connection to the topic to conference 

> event management site at http://conference2012.swtxpca.org/ . Make sure 

> to select the Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice topic area. 

> 

> For panel and other proposals: Feel free to query first 

> ( jruggill at asu.edu ). Panel and other proposals should also be submitted 

> to the conference event management site and include the information 

> requested for individual paper proposals, as well as a 100-word 

> statement of the panel?s raison d?etre and any noteworthy 

> organizational features. 

> 

> As always, proposals are welcome from any and all scholars (including 

> graduate students, independent scholars, and tenured, tenure-track, 

> and emeritus faculty) and practitioners (developers, artists, 

> archivists, and so forth). Also, unusual formats, technologies, and 

> the like are encouraged. 

> 

> The submission deadline is 12/1/2011. 

> 

> The Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area is international in 

> scope and emphasizes diversity, an openness to innovative approaches 

> and presentations, and the energetic practice of post-conference 

> collaboration and publication. 

> 

> Judd Ruggill, Area Chair 

> Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice 

> jruggill at asu.edu 

> http://www.swtxpca.org 

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