[game_preservation] Home of the Underdogs Revival Project

[Stuart Feldhamer]

Wow, Andrew, thanks for posting this. The Excel basically is all the
metadata on the site if anyone is interested.

One note about HOTU: as the name implies, the site focused on underdogs:
underappreciated, underrated, or relatively unknown games. So you're not
going to find "King's Quest" on there.

Stuart


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

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

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

> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 1:51 PM

> To: IGDA Game Preservation SIG

> Subject: [game_preservation] Home of the Underdogs Revival Project

> 

> Hey,

> 

> Sarinee from HotU has setup a google groups project thing to manage

> somehow getting the old site data online. She's provided a bit of the

> data which I've mirrored on the archive (

> http://www.archive.org/details/Home_of_the_Underdogs-Data ) - sadly

> nothing from the mac side, none of the user content either (forums,

> reviews, etc.) but there is raw data there in an Excel Spreadsheet got

> out from the DB.

> 

> The group is here for those who want to contribute:

> http://groups.google.com/group/hotu-revival

> 

> I'm there, hopefully more as an advisory role since I have GDC coming

> up

> right now, where I hope to get somewhere a static set of HTML pages or

> at least a static site uploaded on the web (either in zip or as an

> accessible resource). This depends on others efforts it seems - someone

> needs to ring the debtors who took over the hosting company once it

> filed for bankrupcy to possibly get a site backup for instance (it's in

> America, I can't ring ;) ). Someone else is manually getting pages

> (from

> where I don't know - Coral Cache and suchlike I presume).

> 

> I've added it to the general projects page. I'll say this has "IGDA

> Game

> Preservation SIG approval" but except for me and Dan no one from here

> is

> working on it I guess :)

> 

> Andrew

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