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What Do Videogames Want? Preserving, Playing and not Playing Digital Games and Gameplay (Introduction)

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dc.creatorNewman, James
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-21T14:10:25Z
dc.date.available2024-08-21T14:10:25Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractVideogames are, without doubt, disappearing and the continued – and accelerating – loss of this material denies future generations access to their cultural heritage and robs the next generation of developers historical reference material to draw on. As Henry Lowood [2009] pointed out more than a decade ago, we need to take action “before it’s too late”. The video-paper offers an overview and critique of existing approaches and revisits some of the methodological and conceptual presuppositions that underpin game preservation and even the academic discipline of game studies as a whole. Returning to first principles, the paper asks “What Do Videogames Want?”.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23000
dc.identifier.urihttps://perfomap.de/map14/iii-complexities-of-documenting/what-do-videogames-want
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/24631
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherHochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig
dc.publisher.placeLeipzig
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2191-0901
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMAP - Media | Archive | Performance
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectArchiving experiencesen
dc.subjectVideogamesen
dc.subject.ddcddc:794
dc.subject.workFORTNITE
dc.subject.workANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS
dc.titleWhat Do Videogames Want? Preserving, Playing and not Playing Digital Games and Gameplay (Introduction)en
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local.coverpage2024-08-22T02:40:08
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://perfomap.de/map14/iii-complexities-of-documenting/what-do-videogames-want
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local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleMAP #14 Doing Documentation
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local.source.volume14
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q349375
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64566657

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