[game_preservation] Game developers memorial page?

[Andrew Armstrong]

Right, the IGDA general preservation email will be the contact point for 
this, until we can sort otherwise. If you are able to be the primary 
contact, I'll see if I can get me and Henry CCed in so we don't miss 
anything and can help out.

Thanks both for the updates, and we will discuss it at GDC and make sure 
that IGDA people know of it at least (I'll try not to be morbid about it 
- I expect off-handedly saying "We're creating, you know, death pages, 
memorials, in case you die!!!" is not an apt way to start discussion). I 
can get an example complete by then, although it will lack the 
additional comments that of course will be a focal point of the project.

Andrew

Captain Commando wrote:

> Henry,

>

> Like I told Andrew, I wouldn't mind being contact, but A. I need a 

> better contact e-mail and B. I need to renew my IGDA membership, two 

> things that likely won't get fixed, at least until late Feb. :)

>

> -Devin

>

> On Feb 6, 2008 11:30 PM, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu 

> <mailto:lowood at stanford.edu>> wrote:

>

>     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> < http://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> < 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> <

>>>     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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>          Film & Media Collections

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