We Might Be About To Lose A Powerful Force In The World Of Video Game Preservation
We Might Be About To Lose A Powerful Force In The World Of Video Game Preservation
Hat tip to Kevin Bunch: https://bsky.app/profile/atariarchive.org/post/3lnzvdhowhc26
Currently, in our bank account, we have £2100 (around $2800). It's not even enough to pay the rent for one month," explains Joseph Redon, head of the Japanese Game Preservation Society. He's describing the end of the non-profit organisation he set up in 2011 with the aim of properly safeguarding Japanese gaming history before it is lost forever.
To be fair, game development is one of those professions that should've moved to remote-only years ago.
As a gameplay programmer I fully disagree. Just the ability to quickly ask a designer near you for clarifications or to if modifying the design slightly to save on time is worth soo much.
Asking over slack just isn't the same as it adds more friction, takes longer, and makes it easier for misunderstandings to sneak in.
To be fair though it can be worth sometimes working from home to give you less distractions if you need some full focus time... And other jobs in the industry does gain a lot more from being fully remote...
shit like this is why piracy will always be a net positive
It's still baffling to know that 87% of nearly all games are on the verge of or already had been forgotten because the industry operates on this mantra of "if we don't think it'll turn a profit, don't bother with it and if anyone pirates it we'll still profit through lawsuits!". If they truly have had it their way and no opposition gets in between them, they would happily have let so many libraries die out. And then we'll only be left with regurgitated bundles that they hand pick themselves, to release.
Your nostalgia is just simply another marketing strategy.
Or like we say it in IBL
I really need to share my game collection with the world. I have every game ever made for every console h from Atari to PlayStation one Sitting on a hard drive. 300 gigs of that alone is PlayStation games.
I don't understand why can't they put all the software to different torrent trackers. There are enthusiast seeders who will keep distributing stuff
Yeah, sometimes you got to do what you got to do.
Alarmist headline.
The honest one:
NPO Game Preservation Society wants your donations to keep them afloat.
Thank you!
