Casual Games SIG/Conference Calls/September 2008

International Game Developers Association

Notes taken by James C. Smith 9/16/2008

Contents 1 Role Call 1.1 Who's Here 1.2 Who's Not 2 Conference Call Logistics 3 Initiative Updates 3.1 Whitepaper Update 3.2 Quarterly 3.3 Mailing List 3.4 Developer Publisher Attribution 4 New Initiatives 4.1 Government Tax Incentives Guide 4.2 How to pitch to developers 4.3 Women in Casual Games 4.4 US Publishers exploring non-western markets 5 Working groups Meeting 6 Conferences 6.1 Kyiv 6.2 Hamburg

Role Call

Who's Here

Dave Rohrl, Vishal Gondal, Alex Ionescu, James C Smith, Kirsten Duvall, Brian Robbins,Alfredo Chavez, Michael Thornton Wyman,

Who's Not

Dan Prigg, Rex Sikora

Conference Call Logistics

• Kirsten Duvall will setup Conference Call hosting, send it to Dave, and save will setup recurring outlook meeting
• 9 AM PT / First Tuesday of the month
• Next call October 7th

Initiative Updates

Whitepaper Update

• MMO not be in 2008 but will be pulled out into another paper later
• Other sections near completion – October maybe, probably later

Quarterly

• Michael Wyman will coordinate will contributors to gather all content
• Alfredo Chavez will be managing scheduling, layout, printing
• Received template and one postmortem article from Wade and
• First release in November and later printed for Hamburg - End of October is collaborator deadline
• Fallowing issue in time for GDC , Distribution at casual games summit is approved
• 3rd in time for Seattle
• Dave will look into budget
• Article ideas –
  • History of big fish games
  • social gaming – Dave’s CEO or
  • Scrabulus
• Michael – will e-mail SC list for articles

Mailing List

• James C. Smith & Alfredo Chavez will plan in advance some topics to post 2 or 3 per months

Developer Publisher Attribution

• Dan Prigg, Rex Sikora Not attending

New Initiatives

Government Tax Incentives Guide

• Alex & Vishal
• Contributor Alfredo
• Start with article in the quarterly???

How to pitch to developers

Table until after whitepapaer

Women in Casual Games

• Kirsten will formulate plan to present next time

US Publishers exploring non-western markets

• Start with article in the quarterly

Working groups Meeting

Working groups will meet on conference call or e-mail at least once between SC meetings

Conferences

Kyiv

• We will distribute one sheet flyer in the attendee bag
• Alfredo will layout and print flier
• Brian will write some copy for flyer
• Each initiative write one paragraph
• Alfredo will contact CGA deadline

Hamburg

• Print Quarterly
• Dave will try to book session about IGDA update