Digital Game Canon 2007

At GDC 2007 the first Digital Game Canon event occured put on by Henry Lowood, head of the Game Preservation SIG, and with a panel consiting of him, Steve Meretzky, Christopher Grant, Matteo Bittanti and Warren Spector.

These are the slides and audio track from the event, as well as a transcript of the audio. You can listen to the audio and watch the slides online (with some minor errors) too. You can find more on the Digital Game Canon project and included games at the IGDA wiki.

Many many thanks to Simon Carless of CMP Media/Gamasutra for obtaining the audio track for us to host, and the IGDA for hosting it.

Online Slides

These use flash to display the slides and use a player to play the downloadable MP3's - you will have to manually progress the slides to match the audio. Note there are one or two corrupted slides which seemingly cannot be fixed.

File Downloads

Note: You might need to Right Click and "Save As..." to download some of these file types rather then the browser opening them.

Audio

Audio and PDF slides

The complete package of full audio plus slides compressed.

Slides

You can download the original or PDF versions of each presentation.

Transcript

A text transcript of the event, although not all the names are recognised in the Q&A and some minor mistakes may be present.