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Okay one more talk: what’s new in game history.
Phil Salvador, Laine Nooney, Henry Lowood, Kendra Albert, Chloe Appleby

Crowded room! Albeit this is one of the half-size rooms at thr conference center. Still, a lot of people interested in this.

(I know Phil from Myst fandom — he helped get a bunch of historical video from the production of Riven digitized and archived.)

Phil talking about citizen archivists and fan preservation projects. “The first line of defense”. Wheeler Dealers (Dani Bunten’s first game), found and preserved. Design documents from Donkey Kong. Games for thr Casio Loopy.

(I am part of this too, with my Infocom game file archive.)

There is rising recognition and support for community preservation projects. NCSoft licensing a City of Heroes fan server.

@zarfeblong Any chance they've talked about Dark Sun Online, which I hear has had a flurry of recent activity in the server space?

@zarfeblong thank you for live tooting them. I'm really curious about this notion of 2024 being the year of TTG history!