Walkthrough and let's play: evaluating preservation methods for digital games

摘要: Heritage organizations have lately become increasingly interested in preserving digital games. Initial probing into the field of game preservation has shown that it faces some unique problems. Different technological methods aim to keep games playable future been proposed, but they can only preserve a form for generations, not convey ways people play now. In order understand are played, we need look playing context. this paper, I discuss two candidates born within community, walkthrough texts and Let's Play videos, evaluate their suitability long term preservation.