Game Preservation SIG/Monthly Roundups/200902

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February 2009

Spring cleaning with agusto, January is over. We've got new members and a slightly cleaned up set of projects this month, and some good news for the coming month.

Preservation SIG January 2009 Work

Our white paper "Before It's Too Late: A Digital Game Preservation White Paper" is now in the editing phase. Anyone who signed up for proofreading might get a shot at it this month, and it is planned to be released along with a 1 sided summary at GDC. If you want to proofread, please contact us.

I also have updated ("spring cleaned") the main pages of the SIG: the main page, and updates to the projects and resources pages. Are we missing something? Please email in. :)

We also have a nearly finished SIG icon. Here is the latest design, which I've only got one major thing left to do on (improve the "shine"), and create versions suitable for lower then 64x64 resolution which it currently is in. Once finished I'll be using it for future newsletters, pages, themes, etc.

From the memorials project we have new memorials for Erick S. Dyke (d 10-11-2008), Gene Smith (d 2002-07-14) and Fukio Mitsuji (d 2008-12-11) (who was confirmed, very sadly, as having died). We still need major help with this project, from submissions from the past, or manpower to edit pages, write biographies or research people. Please contact Devin at memorials -at- igda -dot- org to help!

The Contributions project also has updates, from more European and American institutions / organisations which are up for accepting physical donations of work. Soon I'll get into gear advocating this, as the project is nearly complete (enough for a v1.0 release at least).

For our Internet Archive work, I've added a few more videos to collections - Consolevania Wave 1 and Consolevania Christmas Carol, a sad end to Consolevania, so go watch! I also went out and found a few contributors, so thanks to Captain Duck for his Dwarf Fortress tutorials (a game that must be in some way remembered in video form! :) ), and a few more people who are aiming to upload things this month.

The Let's Play collection also has a lot of new ones, thanks to Baldurk, including GUN, Psychonauts, Misadventures of Tron Bonne, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Mega Man 3, Earthworm Jim 2, Mega Man 2 and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

The Videogame Replays collection also got a few new Longplays from Monty Mole, Gradius 2, Super Mario Bros 2 and Mortal Kombat 2. The Virtual Worlds collection also has a new video titled A New Platform - Sirikata, about Stanfords new open source platform.

Finally, we've got permission to add new collections related Videogames in other areas. Currently we are experimenting with Videogame Patches, which was discussed on our mailing list a fair few months ago - so watch this space for future developments. If anyone feels they can contribute to any area we are working on with files or volunteer manpower, please contact me or Simon! (simon -at- archive -dot- org)

Future Work for February 2009

I'll be concentrating on any new Internet Archive collections, but I am still wanting feedback on what to do about 3 languishing projects; Digital Game Canon, Collectors Information and Oral Histories. There is also a need to revamp the Resources and Projects listings somehow, I need feedback on all of these if possible, especially if someone wants to help with any of it (no experience in the area necessary!)

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.

Lots of discussions started this month, not many finished. Discussions on Wikipedia, Spring Cleaning, Mobygames and KLOV / Metadatabase,

A possible new project were raised in the form of citation/catalogue standards, and discussions of the existing projects as noted above as problematic Oral Histories, Digital Game Canon and Collectors Information which all need input.

Finally, welcome to new members on the mailing list. Let yourself be known, because eventually the mailing list will disappear to be replaced by a similar function on the new IGDA website format - meaning you'll need free accounts, and we'll know who you are then anyway! :P

Preservation SIG Blog Updates / Links

Have I missed anything this month? Then email it in to preservation_news @ igda.org !

Final Thoughts

Hope you have had a nice spring clean of your office, home, desk, or at least your coffee cup. Please remember to contribute back your thoughts on our projects and work, there is no requirement to work on them if you offer words of advice, criticism or any kind of comment.

Andrew Armstrong

IGDA Game Preservation SIG Site/Blog editor

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