[game_preservation] Game preservation videos?

[Andrew Armstrong]

Do you mean actively recording the game from start to finish? or just 
portions?

I was implying its entirely tedious to record the entire game, thus 
sections with voiceover (from the original team would be a plus, for one 
view, and a critical view of it from anyone else would be the easiest to 
do), showing the key points of the game. It might be beneficial for some 
games to record it entirely - story-based ones are a good choice for 
this, since the content isn't the same gameplay all the way through, so 
it needs a full view to get the entire benefit of it.

What's your progress with the prototypes anyway?

Andrew

The PlayStation Museum wrote:

> I have tried doing this for the PlayStation games that are 

> prototypes.  I have plans to do this on all retail games as well, but 

> it is a tedious job (especially when I'm not a very good gamer).

>

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> [mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] *On Behalf Of *Andrew 

> Armstrong

> *Sent:* Saturday, August 04, 2007 6:28 PM

> *To:* IGDA Game Preservation SIG

> *Subject:* [game_preservation] Game preservation videos?

>

> Hey all,

>

> I'll happily wait for any further responses on my other questions, but 

> recently thought about preserving historical games a bit more.

>

> Basically, I was wondering if there was any known effort, not just to 

> save the software, but to provide videos or media with people playing 

> the game, or explanations of the game, or if it was a good idea...let 

> me explain further what I mean.

>

> What I mean, is when someone says "Do you remember ... which had ..." 

> or "This should be more like ..." you don't have to physically play it 

> to know what they mean. Game reviews do this /partially/, although 

> only exist for very recent games. Speed runs also show a game, 

> obviously played the fastest way possible.

>

> This goes hand in hand with text descriptions of games, but text 

> descriptions of a interactive medium is pretty difficult, which is 

> where video could help.

>

> To show how something was is much easier in video - especially if 

> videos can be made of different parts of the game. I also wonder if it 

> would be good to have people "share their thoughts" on what are deemed 

> to be important games for them (or that have something they want to 

> comment on as good or bad), while playing them! videoing their 

> responses and what happens on the screen at the same time, allowing a 

> kind of review and look at what is done in a game by an authoritative 

> source. A critical view of a game which isn't by a game journalist, 

> which never seem really impartial, would be good.

>

> Just an idea, but does it have any merit? (Quick yes or no would do ;) 

> I was just wondering). If someone has done or started this already, 

> got any links or sources?

>

> Andrew

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