Casual Games SIG/Conference Calls/May 2009

International Game Developers Association

Notes taken by James C. Smith 5/07/2009

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 What People Want from the Sig 4 Future 5 Conference Call Logistics

Role Call

Who's Here

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

Who's Not

Dan Prig, Vishal Gondal, Kirsten Duvall

Initiative Updates

Quarterly Newsletter

Michael Wyman / Alfredo Chaves

• No progress yet on next issue
• Hope to still have something for casual connect
• Alfredo still needs reimbursement for layout cost
• Previous article about exclusivity will appear on casual connect magazine
• Dave will start sponsorship campaign to cover printing cost
• James will get a postmortem
• Dave will work on getting articles possibly from speakers at summit to do articles versions of their presentations
• Dave will contact George about Plants vs. Zombies postmortem
• Next Publication meeting is Thursday May 21st at 10:00 AM Pacific

Whitepaper Update

Dave Rohrl

• Dave still working on getting a PR person to help promote the whitepaper. Call next week with MS guy
• Dave working on getting IGDA to link to whitepaper

Mailing List

James C. Smith / Alfredo Chaves

• nothing to report

Developer Publisher Attribution

Rex Sikora / Dan Prig

• Nothing to report

What People Want from the Sig

• postmortems
• sales data (NPD type report)
• Info on Game Dev tools and DRM
• Monthly chat. topic focused. Maybe conf call or maybe chat on IRC. Alex will look for facility

Future

• SC Terms end in July. Nominations?. Continuation?.
• Dave will invite anyone to attend next SC meeting

Conference Call Logistics

• Next call tentatively scheduled for June 4th at 10:00 AM Pacific