A Pile O’ Stuff to sort
Today I visited the National Videogame Archive, or the beginnings of it at least! I met with Tom Woolley, who is the Curator of New Media - the National Media Museum where this is going to be hosted is branching out into videogames after it’s name change - previously it [...]
A quick thing from the NMOC - I visited D-block with Adam and investigated the slightly damp, and sometimes dry collection of computers and bits and pieces there. A lot of the material would need to be moved into the archive once it is upgraded in space, and other bits I presume haven’t got the [...]
The Museum
On Saturday 26th, I made it along to The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, in Block H to be precise. I’m aiming to volunteer some time before I apply to jobs, and also have an aim to sort some IGDA Preservation SIG work too.
The museum itself is in a pretty functional state [...]
A new initiative has started within the IGDA Preservation SIG - we’re looking to put up memorials about for industry developers. This is to help preserve history of the people working in the videogame industry, as well as players and important people related to the industry.
It’s currently just starting, but if you know any people [...]