March 28, 2008

Metaverse U Time Captsule videos

As Raph Koster noted (and I meant to post from overseeing the IA, but forgot), there is a time capsule / opinion archive being set up, with each participant being asked these 4 questions:

Find all the videos on Youtube, although higher quality ones are seemingly being uploaded to the Internet Archive too.

Would be interesting to revisit this in a good few years, and see if the predictions have come true :)

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September 20, 2007

[Ditigal Game Canon] Star Raiders

Video Games' First Space Opera: Exploring Atari's Star Raiders by Jeffrey Fleming is available at Gamasutra.

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September 18, 2007

[Internet Archive] Simon Carless with "GameSetVideo Treasures" And The Internet Archive's Videogames Collection

Simon Carless who curates the Internet Archives Videogame collection, has started posting his GameSetVideo Treasures, and has currently posted about Dreamworks' Neverhood EPK, and Making Of Ultima X. The second is one I've watched, and it is very interesting to see the final game a studio works on before being disbanded, and what they think will make people want to play it.

I will likely start to post what gets uploaded in its entirety to the archive each week, although the collection has a list of recent updates and RSS feed itself, I hope I can say what's worth watching or is interesting to view.

Thanks to Simon for all his work at the IA, and doing the column which will be much more informative then my updates on content! A collection of (currently) 28 interviews, 1,110 speed runs, 81 pieces of game footage and shows, 2,196 adverts and previews, and 167 replays of games is a huge amount of material, but a mere fraction of what is possible to archive - if you can donate any video files related to videogames, please contact either of us, and we'll be happy to help.

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July 18, 2007

[Digital Game Canon] The History of Civilization

The History of Civilization by Benj Edwards is available at Gamasutra.

[This is a historical entry moved from the IGDA wiki]

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June 28, 2007

[Digital Game Canon] History of Zork online

The History of Zork by Matt Barton is available at Gamasutra.

[This is a historical entry moved from the IGDA wiki]

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June 01, 2007

[Digital Game Canon] The History of Spacewar

"Down the Hyper-Spatial Tube: Spacewar and the Birth of Digital Game Culture" (A look at Spacewar and its history) by Jeffrey Fleming is up Gamasutra.

[This is a historical entry moved from the IGDA wiki]

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March 01, 2007

Digital Game Canon project started

The Digital Game Canon project started from happenings at the 2007 GDC.

[This is a historical entry moved from the IGDA wiki]

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