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September 01, 2008

[Monthly SIG Updates] September 2008

With September the 1st comes a new monthly roundup. There's been bits and pieces of activity, some interesting articles and other odds and ends.

Preservation SIG Updates

First off, the Whitepaper effort has been launched by Henry! This has had exactly no contributors yet, so make sure to get on the mailing list or wiki to add your thoughts. Anything, from basic information, ideas and resource links to paper titles, core concepts and examples of why videogame preservation is needed are all welcome. Please send this out to anyone who might be interested in editing or writing for the paper, or who can contribute some information to it. I'll be adding up some basic information this month, hopefully encouraging others :)

The memorial project has had a new entry for Dave Pridie who died in 2001, contributed by Christopher Bretz.

The Contributions page, where museums and archives will be listed who can accept material from game developers, has now been started. There are 3 listed locations, including our own member's Zach Vowell's UT archive and two UK computer museums. I am planning to email more, but if anyone knows some in person and can gather some information for this list in the form that already exists in these examples, it'd be very welcome! (And if anyone can speak Japanese, there is likely a few in Japan I'd love to add, so give me a shout if you can help translate!)

Finally I've been more organised in uploading a good amount of videos to the Internet Archive. Among the uploades are several years of E3 footage before it "changed" by Andrew Mehta, for 2004, 2005 and 2006, as well as the partially finished documentary on videogames - What's Next for Videogames?. As noted last month, I have uploaded half of Pure Pwnage. In addition, the "Meet The" Team Fortress 2 videos from Valve are uploaded. There are a few more interviews from Kikizo, and a few odd previews too bringing up the Previews collection to a nice round 2,200 videos.

September Preservation SIG Work

The contributions and whitepaper sections need attention and I need to finish templates to update the resources and projects listings - hopefully once more organised, should be more up to date. The Memorials project is ongoing.

Anyone who wants to lend a hand or has any ideas for further project work post on our mailing list.

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. Recently there's been discussions on the Wing Commander IP preservation, the interview of Joe Santulli (collector, see link below), and on Recreating old development environments after a Megaman 9 interview came online. Read the past discussions for August here.

Preservation SIG Blog Updates / Links

Note: Have I missed anything? Then email it in. I really should get a "Preservation newsdesk" email setup, there's a lot more I simply don't know about which I keep missing. This is all the August updates not included in the previous newsletter:

Final Thoughts

The Whitepaper has officially started, so I hope we all can contribute a few words to its content, else you'll get another annoying note next month about it not having much done on it :) in any case, hope the end of Summer has been good!

Thanks all,

Andrew Armstrong

IGDA Game Preservation SIG Site/Blog editor

Posted by AndrewArmstrong at September 1, 2008 01:43 PM

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