Game Preservation SIG/Monthly Roundups/200910
International Game Developers Association
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October 2009
We've had DiGRA during September, if anyone has any future or past events they want to have put in the newsletter make sure to email in :)
Preservation SIG September 2009 Work
The SIG presented the edited 2009 white paper on preservation at DiGRA 2009, along with other members presenting on diverse topics on the subject of preservation - very interesting panel, and thank you to Dan Pinchbeck, Andreas Lange, Jo Barwick, James Newman and Tom Wooley.
DiGRA was also helpful with some historical papers. The main one I got permission to upload was related to the history of Tetris, and might be of interest. Thanks to Will Jordan for permission to upload this.
If you are interested in helping the SIG work you can handily volunteer for some projects, or create your own if something is missing!
Future Work for October 2009
If anyone has any suggestions for work please bring them up on the mailing list. I am personally too busy, and at this very moment too ill, to do much more then discuss things.
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.
September had Henry Lowood bring up the manifest for preserving Doom, which we discussed a lot. There was also a brief discussion on the definition and thinginess of games from DiGRA keynote, arty games, and a longer discussion on how best to get ISO data onto a usable external harddrive for hobbyist preservation (if anyone wants to help write guides or provide them, feel free!). Finally serious games might get a canon-like list sorted for themselves, and some cool retro "machinima" was posted.
Preservation SIG Blog Updates / Links
Have I missed anything this month? Then email it in to preservation_news @ igda.org !
- DiGRA 2009 Panel - Yes, I realise this is a duplicate. :/ No one sent anything in and I've not seen anything else!
Final Thoughts
I hope you'll get a good Halloween costume made up for the end of October ;) (what? you don't do Halloween? man, well, play some scary videogames instead then!). There is Game City at the end of the month in the UK, and if they host any more history-based things I'll post up anything I find interesting on the mailing list.
Andrew Armstrong
IGDA Game Preservation SIG Site/Blog editor
