[game_preservation] Game Developers Conference 2013

[Henry Lowood]

Frank,

Unfortunately, no.  IGDA's call for sessions went out only a couple 
weeks ago, with very short notice to reply, and I missed it.  In 
previous years, this happened months in advance, with a formal process. 
As it was, only 4 or 5 IGDA panels made the cut for the program and they 
all will be on the same day.  (I hope I got the details right.)

That's the bad news.  The good news is that there will probably be a 
panel on game preservation, sponsored I believe by IGDA, on the 29th.  
Likewise, the call for this went out just a couple weeks ago - with one 
day to respond - but at least I saw the invitation for this one in my 
in-box..  So I will be on that panel, which I believe Brenda Brathwaite 
and Kate Edwards are organizing. Not confirmed yet, but I think it will 
happen. We could have a meetup on the 29th.

You probably know more about the reasons for the trend than I do, but it 
seems like the IGDA presence at GDC has been gradually cut down over the 
last 4 or 5 years.  That figured in the demise of the Digital Game 
Canon, for example, when IGDA lost its sponsored track.  I am sorry not 
to have the full roundtable this year.

Henry

On 2/18/2013 6:55 AM, Frank Cifaldi wrote:

> Are we not having the normal roundtable this year?

>

>

> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Alex Handy <alex at themade.org 

> <mailto:alex at themade.org>> wrote:

>

>     As other folks were discussing meeting up at conferences:

>

>     At GDC, I would like to host a meetup for preservation people at or

>     exhibit space. We're not 100% sure where it will be yet, but I'll let

>     ya'll know when we are certain. It will be somewhere in Moscone West,

>     at GDC proper.

>

>     Any thoughts on days, times that might work best? I was thinking

>     around 5 or so one of the big days of the main show.

>

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