{"id":12,"date":"2017-04-18T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-02-15T07:43:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T07:43:28","slug":"lets-play-game-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/2017\/04\/18\/lets-play-game-preservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Play game preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>It has been rather quiet <\/span>on this blog, but I nonetheless wanted to share some interesting results of a research project I have been involved in which deals with digital game preservation as part of national cultural heritage, a collaboration with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision<\/a>. It started as a Seed Money project colleague Jasper van Vught, Sound and Vision\u2019s Jesse de Vos, and I got funded through Utrecht University\u2019s Focus Area Game Research (a project overview of which can be found here<\/a>), which had as its goal to set up \u201cthe first unified effort between game research, cultural heritage institutions and the Dutch game industry to define, preserve, archive and exhibit the history of Dutch digital games and game development\u201d. The project continued as an NWO funded Musuem grant called Game On<\/i>, with Jesse the Vos as main lead, with our MA student Hugo Zijlstra acting as research assistant and later research intern.<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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The results of the Game On<\/i> project are a significant first step into creating an archive of Dutch digital games as part of our cultural heritage, as well as thinking about exhibiting such history in a museum setting. I\u2019m proud I could play a part in this effort, but a lot of the actual game preservation (in all its facets) took place at Sound and Vision. They have an overview of all the projects\u2019 results up now at the Sound and Vision\u2019s website here<\/a>. I\u2019m afraid most of it is in Dutch, but some highlights I participated in are:<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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