Game Preservation SIG/Monthly Roundups/200812
International Game Developers Association
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December 2008
December has us rolling along with the white paper, and the GDC Preservation SIG round table announced, hooray!
Preservation SIG Updates
Our first white paper titled "Before It's Too Late: A Digital Game Preservation White Paper" has been started, we're still looking for contributions, especially on the topic of case studies where the lack of preservation has hurt developers. Opinions on the white paper are also welcome, if something seems missing.
The Internet Archive has a new collection of Let's Play videos with help from the Let's Play Archive - thanks to baldurk the site admin for his generous help. There are many up already, so check them out :)
Other Internet Archive uploads I've done have centred on the vast array of intros and cutscene files from games. Age of Empires II, Assassins Creed, Battlefield 2, Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty: United Offensive and Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior. Yes, most of these are pretty new games (ones I had easy access too) - so if you have any more intros, cutscenes or in-game footage that isn't in the archive already, please contact us so we can get it online :)
December Preservation SIG Work
We've got the white paper ongoing, and I also intend to finish updating some of the memorials pages which we've left for a few months due to work. If you know of any missing memorials not in our collection we'd love to hear from you at memorials -at- igda.org
Finally, I hope with my sorting of the IA's videogame collections icons, I can also do something about the SIG's lack of one. We've now got a very nice Memorials icon so it'd be a shame if the SIG as a whole doesn't have one. Ideas welcome and I'll post up any prototypes (is that the right artistic term?) if I do some.
Mailing List Discussions
If you've not joined our mailing list, please do so. We've never tried using our forums it seems :) we stick to old-fangled email. In November we have had discussions on the aforementioned case study white paper research, some notes on Google shutting down lively, a brand new Memorials icon and also some ideas for a SIG icon (which still needs doing as I've noted above), and also my visit to the National Videogame Archive.
Preservation SIG Blog Updates / Links
Have I missed anything this month? Then email it in to preservation_news @ igda.org !
I'm afraid as of making this newsletter something is up on the IGDA.org site, and I can't access the Preservation Blog front page. I'll update the wiki entry with the November entries as soon as I can access it.
Final Thoughts
White paper work is ongoing, wish us luck doing it before our set deadline :) and Happy Christmas from your site/blog editor!
Ho ho ho!
Andrew Armstrong
IGDA Game Preservation SIG Site/Blog editor
