Casual Games SIG/Conference Calls/October 2008
International Game Developers Association
Notes taken by James C. Smith 10/7/2008
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Role Call
Who's Here
James C Smith, Alfredo Chaves, Kirsten Duvall, Michael Thornton Wyman, Alex Ionescu, Dave Rohrl
Who's Not
Dan Prigg, Rex Sikora, Vishal Gondal, Brian Robbins
Conference Call Logistics
- Next call November 4th at 9:00 AM Pacific
- Dave will send out a meeting request with call in instructions
Initiative Updates
Quarterly
Michael Wyman / Alfredo Chaves
- Content lined up for next issue. October 24th deadline. Will include postmortem in the can, large animal social gaming, top 10, Vishal on new business models
- Fallowing Issue – Will be printed for conference. Feature article about exclusivity issue in downloadable games
Women in Casual Games
Kirsten Duvall
- Kirsten will table it until we finish other initiatives
- Revisit in February
- In the mean time start with an articles for the quarterly
Whitepaper Update
Dave Rohrl/Alex Ionescu/ Kirsten Duvall
- 2 of 3 section closed. 1 to go
Mailing List
Alfredo Chaves / James C. Smith
- James C. Smith and Alfredo listed some topics to keep in reserve to post when discussions on the list die down
Developer Publisher Attribution
Rex Sikora / Dan Prig
- Dan Prigg, Rex Sikora Not attending. Dave will poke them
Government Tax Incentives Guide
Alex Ionescu / Vishal Gondal
- Alex will coordinate with Michal for timing and format for next quarterly
- May also post some resources in the Wiki
Conferences
Kyiv
- Handout Design is finish
- Printing logistics needed
- CGA is asking for the IGDA to give CGA some passes or promotion at IGDA events. Dave will work on IGDA / CGA relations.
Hamburg
- Still plan to Print Quarterly
- Dave will try to book session about IGDA update
