[game_preservation] game_preservation Digest, Vol 34, Issue 13

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It would at least somewhat resemble this classic reference, which everybody here should be familiar with:

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>   1. Project idea; List of closed companies (Andrew Armstrong)

>   2. Re: Project idea; List of closed companies (Mike Melanson)

>   3. Re: Project idea; List of closed companies (Stuart Feldhamer)

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>Message: 1

>Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:26:15 +0000

>From: Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>

>Subject: [game_preservation] Project idea; List of closed companies

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

>Message-ID: <49505A57.9040108 at aarmstrong.org>

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>I was wondering, with Free Radical (who's UK based, thus I noticed it 

>more then other recent closures) suddenly, like many game development 

>studios, just shut shop: 

>http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/free-radical-design-latest-to-face-financial-trouble

>

>I think it might be worth, certainly for recent companies, to get a list 

>of closed companies somehow - that is, which is why I am posting here, 

>to see if there is a good list already available :)

>

>Certainly this would help anyone who was, really, on the edge of getting 

>information - certainly I'd not mind getting the history of Free Radical 

>(and if anything, any old stuff they had obviously could be moved to an 

>archive too! but that usually never happens :( ) now, rather then 

>whenever in the future when all the employee's have moved, things are 

>everywhere and anywhere, and so forth. It is rather a sad topic, of 

>course, and one historians seriously have trouble dealing with - there's 

>not a great deal of information available about closed companies (at 

>least, information about their final days) out there unless a book/huge 

>site/whatever was done of them during their lifespan or just after it.

>

>Once the new IGDA site goes live I'll also try and invest some time in 

>contacting the studio's people (somehow, given they are not working 

>there anymore this might be harder then expected) and request some final 

>interviews, and whatnot, so some of the history of the company can be 

>caught before it disappears, since we all know memory isn't always very 

>reliable after a while.

>

>Andrew

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>Message: 2

>Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:33:26 -0800

>From: Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx>

>Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Project idea; List of closed

>	companies

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

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>Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>> I think it might be worth, certainly for recent companies, to get a list 

>> of closed companies somehow - that is, which is why I am posting here, 

>> to see if there is a good list already available :)

>

>SNK 4 Lyfe!

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>http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/11/05/

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>-- 

>     -Mike Melanson

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>Message: 3

>Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:41:27 -0500

>From: "Stuart Feldhamer" <stuart.feldhamer at gmail.com>

>Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Project idea; List of closed

>	companies

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

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>I think this would be a very long list...

>

>Stuart

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

>> From: game_preservation-bounces at igda.org [mailto:game_preservation-

>> bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Armstrong

>> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 10:26 PM

>> To: IGDA Game Preservation SIG

>> Subject: [game_preservation] Project idea; List of closed companies

>> 

>> I was wondering, with Free Radical (who's UK based, thus I noticed it

>> more then other recent closures) suddenly, like many game development

>> studios, just shut shop:

>> http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/free-radical-design-latest-to-

>> face-financial-trouble

>> 

>> I think it might be worth, certainly for recent companies, to get a

>> list

>> of closed companies somehow - that is, which is why I am posting here,

>> to see if there is a good list already available :)

>> 

>> Certainly this would help anyone who was, really, on the edge of

>> getting

>> information - certainly I'd not mind getting the history of Free

>> Radical

>> (and if anything, any old stuff they had obviously could be moved to an

>> archive too! but that usually never happens :( ) now, rather then

>> whenever in the future when all the employee's have moved, things are

>> everywhere and anywhere, and so forth. It is rather a sad topic, of

>> course, and one historians seriously have trouble dealing with -

>> there's

>> not a great deal of information available about closed companies (at

>> least, information about their final days) out there unless a book/huge

>> site/whatever was done of them during their lifespan or just after it.

>> 

>> Once the new IGDA site goes live I'll also try and invest some time in

>> contacting the studio's people (somehow, given they are not working

>> there anymore this might be harder then expected) and request some

>> final

>> interviews, and whatnot, so some of the history of the company can be

>> caught before it disappears, since we all know memory isn't always very

>> reliable after a while.

>> 

>> Andrew

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