Casual Games SIG/Conference Calls/February 2009

International Game Developers Association

Notes taken by James C. Smith 2/03/2009

Contents 1 Role Call 1.1 Who's Here 1.2 Who's Not 2 Initiative Updates 2.1 Quarterly Newsletter 2.2 Whitepaper Update 2.3 Mailing List 2.4 Developer Publisher Attribution 3 Conference Call Logistics

Role Call

Who's Here

James C Smith, Alex Ionescu, Dave Rohrl, Michael Thornton Wyman, Rex Sikora

Who's Not

Brian Robbins, Alfredo Chaves, Dan Prig, Kirsten Duvall, Vishal Gondal

Initiative Updates

Quarterly Newsletter

Michael Wyman / Alfredo Chaves

• On track for spring issue with virtual roundtable about exclusivity topic. Many pianists agreed and a few have not replied yet
• Bejweled Twist postmortem is ready
• GDC approved distributing quarterly at casual games summit
• Dave suggested Andrew Meyer for future article and will forward contact info to Michael
• The plan is to have the Kinko’s near Dave print the newsletter in time for Dave to pick it up March 22nd and hand deliver it to GDC. Alfredo will provide a past issue in PDF form as an example Dave will use to get a price quote and cuttof date
• Dave still working on updating payment info in basecamp

Whitepaper Update

Dave Rohrl

• Final Draft is done
• Dave will ask IGDA to host with download counts
• We are looking for someone to issue press release
• Dave will provide blurb to put in quarterly
• Alfredo will submit to Gamzebo
• Dave will submit to IGDA and Gamasutra

Mailing List

James C. Smith / Alfredo Chaves

• Nothing to report

Developer Publisher Attribution

Rex Sikora / Dan Prig

• Rex said “No update on our end. Few partners that we’re still trying to connect with to get updates from, and haven’t had much luck yet.”

Conference Call Logistics

• Next call March 3rd at 10:00 AM Pacific
• On that call we will decide if we will meet in person at GDC and if that will replace the April meeting