Rethinking game heritage – towards reflexivity in game preservation

Nylund, Niklas; Prax, Patrick; Sotamaa, Olli

doi:10.1080/13527258.2020.1752772

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“…Digital game preservation is becoming increasingly important worldwide [Mochocki, 2022;Nylund et al, 2020;Stuckey et al, 2015]. Different reasons contribute to reinforcing this importance.…”

Section: Preservation Of Digital Games: Importance and Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This selection has helped compose what is known as the legitimate history of digital gaming. These agents include gamer and retro gamer community members, the media, the global gaming industry, and, finally, the museums [Decker et al, 2012;Eklund, 2022;Nylund et al, 2020]. These four agents are, therefore, the primary gatekeepers as far as knowledge of that history is concerned.…”

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Memory Void: Digital Games Preservation in Portugal

Lima,

Mota

2023

Anais Estendidos Do XXII Simpósio Brasileiro De Jogos E Entretenimento Digital (SBGames Estendido 2023)

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Some collective efforts to preserve and disseminate Portuguese digital games are led by retro gaming communities and have contributed to the emergence of other narratives about the history of video games in the last decade in Portugal. In this paper, we present two of these communities, namely Planeta Sinclair and RetroArquivo, and examine how their preservation activity can be a way to promote the recognition of the cultural, historical, and material values of old games. We conclude that digital game preservation is mostly contained in an informal and networked infrastructure, within which archival libraries of these same artifacts are developed.

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Section: Preservation Of Digital Games: Importance and Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Memory Void: Digital Games Preservation in Portugal

Lima,

Mota

2023

Anais Estendidos Do XXII Simpósio Brasileiro De Jogos E Entretenimento Digital (SBGames Estendido 2023)

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“…Cultural heritage sites provide a great playground to develop digital multimedia using immersive technologies such as augmented reality (AR) [7], virtual reality (VR) [8,9], or serious games [10][11][12]. Heritage sites have been represented in games and other multimedia for a long time, to engage visitors into interactive on-site experiences, like historical reconstructions that can be educational or can help raise awareness around that site or to promote the importance of cultural heritage among visitors [11,13] by fostering cultural understanding.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Framework for Stakeholders’ Involvement in Digital Productions for Cultural Heritage Tourism

Calvi

Weber-Sabil

Asmar

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This paper proposes a new framework for the production and development of immersive and playful technologies in cultural heritage in which different stakeholders such as users and local communities are involved early on in the product development chain. We believe that an early stage of co-creation in the design process produces a clear understanding of what users struggle with, facilitates the creation of community ownership and helps in better defining the design challenge at hand. We show that adopting such a framework has several direct and indirect benefits, including a deeper sense of site and product ownership as direct benefits to the individual, and the creation and growth of tangential economies to the community.

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“…In recent years, there has been increased interest in archiving and preserving software and other data produced during the previous years of computing, with especially strong interest in the archival and preservation of video games data [1][2][3][4]. Much of the work to archive and preserve such data has historically been accomplished through community efforts [2], in which a community of users work to first extract data from aging storage media (a process called dumping or imaging) and then preserve the extracted data by storing copies of it on modern storage media.…”

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A Method to Compactly Store Scrambled Data Alongside Standard Unscrambled Disc Images of CD-ROMs

Hauenstein¹

2022

Computer Science and Information Technology

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When archiving and preserving CD-ROM discs, data sectors are often read in a so-called “scrambled mode” before being unscrambled and further processed into a standard disc image. Processing of scrambled data into a standard disc image is potentially lossy, but standard disc images exhibit greater software compatibility and usability compared to scrambled data. Consequently, for preservation purposes, it is often advantageous to store both the scrambled data and the corresponding standard disc image, resulting in high storage demands. Here, a method that enables compact storage of scrambled data alongside the corresponding (unscrambled) standard CD-ROM disc image is introduced. The method produces a compact representation of the scrambled data that is derived from the standard disc image. The method allows for storage of the standard unscrambled disc image in unmodified form, easy reconstruction of the scrambled data, and a substantial space savings compared standard data compression techniques.

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Rethinking game heritage – towards reflexivity in game preservation

Cited by 11 publications

References 29 publications

Memory Void: Digital Games Preservation in Portugal

Memory Void: Digital Games Preservation in Portugal

A Framework for Stakeholders’ Involvement in Digital Productions for Cultural Heritage Tourism

A Method to Compactly Store Scrambled Data Alongside Standard Unscrambled Disc Images of CD-ROMs

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