[game_preservation] Game developers memorial page?

[Henry Lowood]

Andrew,

Ok, this will be on the agenda then.

Off topic but: there are a few memorial pages out there for 
well-known players of various games, some of which include replay 
files of their games.  These are interesting documents, and I'm going 
to be talking about replaying a DOOM game I found this way at a 
workshop on campus next week about the disappearance of virtual worlds.

Henry

At 07:15 AM 2/7/2008, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>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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>>

>>--

>>The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

>>

>>"Until next time..."

>>Captain Commando

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