[game_preservation] Google Shutting down Lively

[Devin Monnens]

That's too bad. Richard Garriot was so hopeful about it. They had the LE
version selling for pennies. Would have been worth it for the soundtrack
maybe.

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


>  Hot on the heels...Tabula Rasa as we all know didn't do to well.

>

> Feb 28th is the death knell for it -

> http://www.rgtr.com/news/latest_news/message_from_the_tabula_rasa_t.html

>

> Anyone know any others closing down?

>

> Andrew

>

> Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>

> Yeah, certainly if I notice anything online, I'll post about it here.Keep

> an eye out everyone!

>

> Defiantly, if it was longer running there'd be a better community and it'd

> be easier to go out and email those sites for help regarding this.

>

> I very much doubt Google themselves would do much to help if contacted -

> generally their "dead" things really, really stay dead (see their Google

> Sync for Firefox, entirely binned, sigh), and they usually don't release

> much for historians. Might be worth a shot though, on the off hand :)

>

> Andrew

>

> Henry Lowood wrote:

>

> Actually 4.5 months.  Did you see in the announcement that they are

> encouraging users to take screenshots and videos of their sites?  I would be

> happy to take anything like that in the Archiving Virtual Worlds collection,

> which is available for exactly this sort of thing.  If you hear about such

> documentation, feel free to point them to the collection or even to me if

> they need help uploading.

>

> Henry

>

> Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>

> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/20/144248

>

> That was fast! 6 months total.

>

> I hope the Virtual Worlds project can scrounge some things from it, the

> actual world/platform/community might not be the best, but since it's coming

> from Google, there must be some bits and pieces there.

>

> Andrew

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