Game Preservation SIG/Monthly Roundups/200904
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April 2009
GDC has come and gone, with our white paper now released, go read it!
Preservation SIG March 2009 Work
The white paper "Before It's Too Late: A Digital Game Preservation White Paper" was finished, and is available in several flavours: DOC, ODT, PDF, Lulu Copies
March also hosted, of course, the Game Developers Conference. I have put up my notes and created the relevant project placeholder links on the wiki. Tell me or Henry if you are interested in any of the projects, or have a suggestion for an area to cover!
Finally, the panel submission for DiGRA has been put forward by Dan, so we'll hear news on if that is successful or not in the coming months.
Future Work for April 2009
My work will include cleaning up ready for new projects and pages, but the SIG as a whole can contribute to the flow of ideas for new and old projects and information to work on. Hopefully this month I will get started into a bibliography website for putting various resources related to videogames.
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. This will eventually change when the IGDA site changes over - although those wanting email can still get it.
March had discussions on the laments of young gamers not knowing about arcades, Google's book digitising project, Henry Lowood appearing on a podcast focusing an episode on the history of videogames called A Life Well Wasted, and a short discussion on preserving websites.
Other minor stuff - there was our GDC flyer made up by Henry, and some neat article finds - Fallouts design document and the first(?) lightgun with additional discussion on the museum that hosts it.
Finally, the white paper was released! Feedback very welcome!
Preservation SIG Blog Updates / Links
Have I missed anything this month? Then email it in to preservation_news @ igda.org !
The format of the news will likely change in the future. Without help I am falling behind on the actual useful stuff to report on for preservationists, historians and the like (no one emails me any news, luckily I guess!). I'll probably post useful news immediately, on techniques, events (both ones you attend, and big events like something shutting down!), preservation/history projects and SIG items. I will be working on the Bibliography project for more or less interesting historical or game history articles, where I will likely point a feed from for more regular "Updates of articles related to game preservation and history that you might be interested in reading", whew!
- Before It's Too Late: A Digital Game Preservation White Paper Released
- Meet Nolan Bushnell, the man who created the videogames industry
- Speak, Atari - How the 2600 forged the home video game future
- The History of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater: Ollies, Grabs, and Grinds
- Learning to let go
- The Center for the History of Electronic Games
- Endless loop: A brief history of chiptunes
- Byte Back Reports
- The Stunning Art & Design of the Atari 2600
- On Atari Cartridges In Deep Caves
- Heart on Fire: Deleted Scenes - #04A
- A History of... Qwak?
- The Pac-Man Dossier
- Looking Back at Ensemble Studios
- The History of the Pinball Construction Set
Final Thoughts
Hope anyone who went to GDC had a good time, and those that didn't don't feel left out. The roundtable was definitely more a general discussion and not focused much on SIG work except for suggestions on what to do :)
Andrew Armstrong
IGDA Game Preservation SIG Site/Blog editor
