IGDA Memorials Project now live
Unless you've been carefully listening into our mailing list, you won't even know that some of the Preservation SIG have been working on a new project - which is now live - the IGDA Memorials project.
Great work by Devin Monnens on this, and it is best described from the IGDA newsletter:
The IGDA's Game Preservation SIG is launching the IGDA Memorials Project to remember the lives and work of members of the game industry. The Memorials Project contains biographies of professionals from around the world, and is welcome to anyone who worked on a game or with the Industry in the past.
http://www.igda.org/wiki/Memorials/
In addition, because we believe the IGDA stands for more than just video games, there are Memorials for designers of paper-based games, as well as notable individuals from the toy industry, critical game studies, and computer science, whose work has greatly affected the ways in which we understand, play, and design our games.
It is our firm intent that the IGDA Memorials Project will help demonstrate our seriousness as an industry and an art form that cares deeply about its individuals and their contribution to the medium. We recognize our community as being a continuous line of individuals stretching from the past and into the future rather than as being defined solely by the latest titles on the wall. We should remember these individuals as people whose creative passions helped shape the medium to become what it is today and whose legacy continues to direct where it will go in the future.
The IGDA Memorials Project welcomes participation from members of the community to help celebrate the memories of our own. Most Memorials provide the option for members to post eulogies regarding their own personal experiences with and memories of a person they knew or whose work they cared deeply about. We are also interested in hearing about other developers whose Memorials are not already on the site. If you are interested in participating in the IGDA Memorials Project, please visit our Submission Guidelines page or contact memorials - at - igda.org.
http://www.igda.org/wiki/Memorials/Submission_Guidelines
I'm working on editing the entire thing, so any layout problems or errors please tell Devin or me so I can fix them. Otherwise, this should be one of the many long-lasting permanent projects that we are working on, hopefully benefiting everyone.