[game_preservation] Game developers memorial page?

[Henry Lowood]

Andrew,

I don't mind being the contact for now.   I think it would be great 
to bring this up as a discussion point at GDC.  Maybe someone else 
would like to be involved and would be willing to serve as a 
contact.  Inclusivity is good as far as I am concerned.

A general point here: Everyone should feel free to bring ideas about 
projects like this, things that we can help with via IGDA and would 
serve not just preservation, but also historical memory.

Henry

At 06:33 PM 2/6/2008, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>Heh, I forgot to send this to the group. It now has been! Henry; 

>there was a brief question in there about email setups, and the rest 

>of the group; any suggestions, offers of help or knowledge of 

>memorial pages are very much welcome. Spread the word too; this 

>should not be something that is kept in the dark!

>

>And I'll use some info from the Metroid database as a base for some 

>test pages at least. We'll wait until after GDC to get it properly 

>started, but it'd be nice to get some basics down (templates, page 

>layouts, required content) so it was ready before then.

>

>Thanks,

>

>Andrew

>

>Captain Commando wrote:

>>Andrew,

>>

>>Yeah, set me up as contact - but I'd kind of like it if you don't 

>>finalize the e-mail until at least after the 22nd! I still need to 

>>renew my IGDA membership and finish my MFA. Actually, I'll probably 

>>have to get a better contact e-mail, probably see if I can get 

>>something set up through deserthat.com <http://deserthat.com> 

>>(which needs to get fixed up, like this week).

>>

>>You are welcome to use my information from the Metroid Database. 

>>Actually, I was surprised to find out Moby Games has cited our 

>>article on Mark Haigh-Hutchinson as a resource. I'd personally like 

>>to help out with the Gunpei Yokoi page as I think that's a really 

>>important place to start as he was so well known.

>>

>>-Devin

>>

>>On Feb 6, 2008 4:37 PM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org 

>><mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>> wrote:

>>

>>     Devin / SIG,

>>

>>     I've finished my exams, so have a week to work on stuff - this

>>     memorial

>>     page project would be worth doing. Devin; can I use your website as

>>     sources for a few memorial pages to get it going?

>>

>>     And if this gets working it'd be worth having a specific IGDA email to

>>     use ("memorials at igda.org <mailto:memorials at igda.org>" or

>>     something), unless you're happy to be the

>>     contact for this Henry? Making it easy for non-IGDA members to

>>     contribute is a key part of this project.

>>

>>     Andrew

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>--

>>The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

>>

>>"Until next time..."

>>Captain Commando

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Henry Lowood
Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections;
      Film & Media Collections
HRG, Green Library
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