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Per your suggestion Andrew, I contacted Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum and passed along a few of my thoughts. Here is his response:<div><br></div><div>///</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'll be happy to tell the IDGA guys the story, but I'm not sure how much good it'll do. Our good fortune was not much more than sending an email, and a boatload of luck. We just happened to catch Paul Barnett at a generous moment in his tenure. He found what we did interesting, and appreciated our passion. Our 'technique' probably won't help the GP guys, but they are welcome to use our success as 'proof-of-concept' to other publishers. Due to our lucky circumstances, I think that other publishers might be more interested in cooperating if they think, "Hmmm--if EA thinks this was a good idea..." (just as long as the other publishers are led to believe that it was EA's idea in the first place--and as long as I'm involved somehow!) ;)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Like I said, we haven't developed a magic formula, or anythig. We simply asked, and the planets were in alignment. But acquiring the data was the easy part--distribution will be more of an issue. The way I see it, we got the data on the good graces of Paul Barnett. I'm sure that he told the EA suits in LA, but their legal department may only catch wind of it later.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"you gave the fans WHAT?!"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">We were told that no code should be released, and that everything else shouldd go thru them first. But Paul gave us a wink, and said he wants to see this stufff out--This leaves us at an empass. I want to put some of the more juicy stuff out on the net, but I also want to respect EA's IP as well--it's their stuff after all. There's also potential legal entanglements. I'd hate to give the Museum a bad reputation among EA execs--everything we've worked for would be shot to pieces. Dee the dilemma?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I think the best strategy is to advertise--and then wait. I've seen EA do some incredibly nice things for the fans if they are treated with respect. I've also seen them crush individuals who have good intentions, but get a little snotty/cocky. I always hated those petitions that make demands of the publisher, based solely on some kid's envy--"It's an old game and you've already made your money--why don't you just give us the scource code?!"</div><div>///</div><div><br></div><div>I'll let Joe know about the mailing list - there's a good chance he might even want to join up here. I'll be speaking to him next week, so hopefully I'll get some more details then.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>- Chris<br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>---</div><div>The Artful Gamer: In Search of the Lyrical and Poetic in Video Games</div><div><a href="http://www.artfulgamer.com">http://www.artfulgamer.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></span></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sure, all those suggestions are very good - you don't want to take the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">initiative and do any of them? :) (For the archive repository, if the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">data is all digital at the very least I am sure the Internet Archive can<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">have the majority of it in one form or another).</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I am still in the process (offline) of thinking how to revamp the wiki<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">information, and these projects should be listed there along with other<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">good fansites/source of info. I can't disseminate information on the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">wiki, it's just a poor location for it since everything is manual, but I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">hope to get some form of DB-run site (perhaps the DGC one) which can<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">work to do the metadata and linking/searching to media side, especially<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Archive.org things which are hopeless to search through :)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Andrew</div></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>