BC Furries

Hello,

As a game designer/lover of video games and this city I have been putting together a proposal for a video game museum in Vancouver. It would consist of a gallery containing the history of the local game industry and the history of video games around the world. It would have a vault that would have a bunch of rare/valuable games and game memorabilia to gawk at. It would also have a rotating gallery with a new theme every other month. It would possibly also contain an arcade and a video game themed restaurant/bar (possibly even a larger venue for the exp bar). The museum would be constantly evolving, with rotating gallery pieces, an app that gives you an interactive experience throughout the stay, and new things added as more history is written. Before I pitch this to the world, I am curious to see what you guys think of this.

Please vote and leave comments and suggestions for ways for this to be awesome.

Very great idea. This is definitely the Canadian city to do it in, too. I'm surprised that so many great video game companies are housed here, yet not many places highlight that. (excluding EXP/crows tavern, which are both fairly new.)

Where do you expect to source many of your games/memorabilia? As in, will this be doable within a few years, or will I have to wait until 2020 to come see it xD

If you're serious about doing this, might want to network with the organizers of the Vancouver Global Game Jam. They are very pro-industry and certainly very interested in highlighting the talent and history in video games Vancouver has.

Thanks for the tip about the Global Game Jam guys. I will EVENTUALLY be pitching this at a Full Indie meetup as well, but I want it to actually be sound and have somewhat of a backing first. I likely will Kickstarter it too. As for where i'll be getting my stuff? I will go around asking local companies for anything they'd like to contribute, which they are usually keen to do, on top of that, part of the funding that I will need will go towards purchasing some gems, but that's down the road. In all likelihood it won't happen in the next 2 years. However, before 2020 is a possibility, but it all depends on how many people get on board, how much I can raise etc. I'm putting together the pitch document now, but I'm also looking for work so I don't have huge amounts of time to spend on this at the moment.

I have a fur friend that lives in Vancouver that used to work at freegeek. Initially they were going to start a sort of computer history museum there, but it didn't really work out. I know it's not quite the same, but I think a video game museum might be a big challenge to get started.

If you make a kickstarter I'd be more than happy to contribute. And if you need writers, I know far too much about old video games than I probably should.