[game_edu] game_edu Digest, Vol 52, Issue 5

[kevin at kogsspin.com]

I look at it this way, we already went through one name change early  
on when we went from CGDA to IGDA.  That move broadened the scope from  
computers to all digital games and from the U.S. to the whole world  
(theoretically).  But all along we have collectively been game  
developers.  At the end of the day, each studio outputs software.   
That's how I see it anyway.

One other way to look at it is the NAACP has not felt the need to  
update its name for both historical and recognition value.  At some  
point (and I think we have already passed it) IGDA takes on its own  
meaning, regardless of where the letters originally came from.  It's  
bad enough Jason is leaving, don't screw with the organization's name,  
too.  : (

--Kevin O'Gorman
   Art Institute of Atlanta