[game_preservation] Game preservation panel at GDC

[Benj Edwards]

That sounds really exciting.  I wish I could attend.

Maybe someone can record it for the rest of us who can't make it?

Benj

On 2/22/2013 1:04 PM, Henry Lowood wrote:

> All,

>

> FYI: The "Caring about Chrono Trigger" panel was accepted for GDC.

>

> *Speaker/s: *Jon-Paul Dyson (The Strong) </speaker/Jon-Paul-Dyson>, 

> John Sharp (Parsons The New School for Design) </speaker/John-Sharp>, 

> Henry Lowood (Stanford University Libraries) 

> </speaker/Henry-Lowood> and John Romero (Loot Drop) 

> </speaker/John-Romero>

> *Day / Time / Location: *Thursday 11:30-12:30 Room 308, South Hall

> *Track / Duration / Format / Audience Level: *Advocacy / 60-Minute / 

> Panel

> *GDC Vault Recording: *TBD

> *Description: *Every day, we lose more of the games, the experience, 

> the data and the knowledge upon which the industry was built. What is 

> being done to archive, understand, curate and catalog this culture? 

> Approaching the problem from four different angles, this panel 

> explores the importance of preserving games as an art form, recording 

> the game design and development process, curating and preserving games 

> in a museum or gallery setting, and capturing the experience of 

> present, past and dying digital worlds.

> *Takeaway: *The preservation of our work as an industry will be 

> emphasized as critically important, and attendees will understand what 

> they can do to help maintain our ongoing legacy.

>

>

> Henry

>

>

>

> -- 

> Henry Lowood

> Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections;

>    Film & Media Collections

> HSSG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall

> Stanford University Libraries, Stanford CA 94305-6004

> 650-723-4602;lowood at stanford.edu;http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood

>

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