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<font face="Georgia">Devin,<br>
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that's what we are doing. In fact, I'm working on the manifest this
weekend. It is not final, as the project still has some months to
run, but I will try to remember to share it with this group, probably
around the middle of next week.<br>
<br>
Henry<br>
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Devin Monnens wrote:
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cite="mid:9d1cf2d50909060724j33dde8e4p9dd7c3f10c150020@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Ian Bogost recently gave a keynote in DiGRA on videogames
and ontology. In it, he argues that videogames may be defined as a
multitude of things, from code to plastics to experiences to cultural
phenomena.
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bogost.com/writing/videogames_are_a_mess.shtml">http://www.bogost.com/writing/videogames_are_a_mess.shtml</a><br
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<div>I believe this brings up an interesting question that we've
encountered a few times in our discussions: what is it that we are
preserving?</div>
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<div>Is this question made any easier to answer once we consider
videogames as a multiplicity of objects? Obviously, not all of these
elements are preservable. Maybe we don't want to preserve some of these
elements anyway. Or maybe this gives us many things we would like to
preserve but are unable to preserve them all.</div>
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<div>Can we apply this to a case study, such as the preservation of
Doom, by breaking Doom into a multiplicity of objects? </div>
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<div>-- <br>
Devin Monnens<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.deserthat.com">www.deserthat.com</a><br>
<br>
The sleep of Reason produces monsters.<br>
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