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Challenges in Organizing and Accessing Video Game Development Artifacts
Sustainable Digital Communities: 15th International Conference, iConference 2020, Boras, Sweden, March 23-26, 2020, Proceedings
(2020)
Abstract
Artifacts created during the game development process are vital for understanding and appreciating the history and context of video games. However, few have explored how to organize and preserve the digital ephemera created during game development, critically endangering these media artifacts. Through interviews of various stakeholders interested in these types of artifacts, we explore the game development process. Participants discussed various challenges in organizing and finding game development artifacts for their work due to multiple factors: organization culture, the technical work environment, and a lack of standard vocabulary and practices. They also discussed the disconnect between game library, archive, and special collections lacking ways to note relationships among relevant materials. Based on these findings, we discuss two main implications from an organizational point of view.
Keywords
- video games,
- game development artifacts,
- video game preservation
Disciplines
Publication Date
2020
Editor
Anneli Sundqvist, Gerd Berget, Jan Nolin, and Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad
Publisher
Springer
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
ISBN
978-3-030-43687-2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43687-2_53
Publisher Statement
Sustainable Digital Communities: 15th International Conference, iConference 2020, Boras, Sweden, March 23-26, 2020, Proceedings is volume 12051 of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
Citation Information
Jin Ha Lee, Marc Schmalz, Stephen Keating and Jeewon Ha. "Challenges in Organizing and Accessing Video Game Development Artifacts" Cham, SwitzerlandSustainable Digital Communities: 15th International Conference, iConference 2020, Boras, Sweden, March 23-26, 2020, Proceedings (2020) p. 630 - 637 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/marc-schmalz/11/