Casual Games SIG/Conference Calls/May 2006
International Game Developers Association
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Role Call
Who's Here
Brian R, John W, Margaret, Steve, James
Who's Not
Wade (notified in advance), Alan M
Next Call
June 6th 2PM EST
- Margaret will take lead if Brian can't make it
Publication Update
White Paper
- Targeting May 8th for Executive Overview and truncated Market Overview ready for Casuality Printing
- This should be 15-20 pages
- Margaret or Brian will need to write the Executive Summary for this
- Steve is working hard to get a publisher/value-chain survey up and running
- Hopefully will be via IGDA survey tool
- Everyone is starting to evaluate the successfulness of the wiki editing . . .
Section Updates
- Market Overview
- Coming along, but mostly just via Greg and Gabe, not getting much other contributions
- Some from e-mailed Contributions, but not much
- Also getting data etc from DFC
- Need to be delivered by the 8th
- Probably about 50% complete
- Business Models
- Have a table of contents, with outline and organization
- Wanted to "open the floodgates" and get contributions
- We just need to fill all the content into the paper
- He will be posting this to the mailing list soon
- Technology
- Is coming along okay working with some contributors
- Could really use more attention from the global world
- Production & Design
- Humming along pretty well
- Publishers
- Rest of the section will be outlining the overal publishing process
- The survey is coming together with lots of help from Margaret!
- This will be looked at more as publishing instead of publishers
- Trying to get this out by the end of this week
- Will be sending the questions out to SC list soon for final feedback
- Case Studies
- Progress a bit unknown
- Have at least a couple in process
- Brian needs to post link to wiki from Casual SIG site
- Take a look at White Paper home page on the wiki to encourage participation
Quarterly
- Not sure the status of the Quarterly at this point
Other Initiatives
Data Reporting Standards
- Much progress has been made!
- XML is cool!
- We now have a schema (DTD) put together
- Includes ways to report game sales, plus subscriptions and skill-based tournaments
- Using the new schema, James has turned example paper reports into XML format
- Also have an xtd file(?)
- Basically a stylesheet, outlining the display of data
- Final piece in process right now
- Sample Access Database for tracking sales
- Next we will put this out to larger community for feedback
- Will also need some sort of mapping between internal SKU names and distributor SKU names
- Ideally, build a mapping file once for each distributor
- Should have good support for the standard once it is ready to go
- Will be presented at a session at Casuality
- Hopefully also have a somewhat more public review prior to that
- John will have Bruce contact James
- Could use two types of feedback:
- Technical base XML stuff
- Business type of missing information, etc.
Job Postings
- CasualGamesJobs.com and OnlineGamesJobs.com now active
Conferences
E3 Prep
- Minna Mingle @ E3
- May 10 9PM - 1AM
- VIP portion starting earlier
Develop
- Who can host the group gathering?
- July 11-13 in Brighton, UK
- This is a party college town
- Margaret had a possible person for this
- Also see if zylom can be involved too
Casuality Prep
- Party?
- Already lots of parties
- Maybe instead of a party, let's try to do a gathering
- Focus on what the community wants from the SIG
- Talk with Jessica to try to get this onto the schedule
- What is the timing?
- Try not to compete with anything
- If we have to compete with something
- Brian will take lead on this
SIG Leadership
- Need to have leadership selection at Casuality in June
- Follow model for Online SIG
