Casual Games SIG/Conference Calls/April 2009

Notes taken by James C. Smith 4/07/2009

Role Call

James C Smith, Rex Sikora, Kirsten Duvall, Alex Ionescu, Dave Rohrl

Regrets from: Michael Wyman, Alfredo Chaves No show: Dan Prig, Vishal Gondal

Michael Wyman / Alfredo Chaves

Gave away all the copies printed
Every happy with content and production
Miscomunication resulted in more expensive print run than expected and spent most of the SIG funds
Will need new sponsors to print in the future
No plans yet for next issue other than planning meeting scheduled for two weeks from today

Dave Rohrl

White paper is done and published
Dave is working on getting Gamasutra to republish some parts of whitepaper on Gamsutra
Casual Connect and Gamasutra also interested in republishing part from quarterly and or whitepaper
PR: Dave will connect with Eddie at MS to try to get press release sent
Several e-mails praising white paper
No replies from people willing to lead future whitepaper spinoffs
Alex will work on getting contributors for social gaming

James C. Smith / Alfredo Chaves

Rex Sikora / Dan Prig

Developer Publisher Attribution put on hold for independent work (non-IGDA) on problem of Lifecycle management

Dave will Ask group for what the sig can do
Dave will also ask Jessica for her thoughts on how IGDA can serve developers differently than how CGA serves casual industry
Dave will send call for new steering committee members in May/June
James will ask mailing list for interest level in roundtable session