Ongoing: Current Activities
Notice December 10th Meeting !!!
Agenda
1. Self Introduction2. Purpose of IGDA-Korea Chapter (Erik Bethke)
3. Plan of how to evangelize Korea Chapter
4. Plans for 2005 and formation of new comittee (we need more volunteers!)
5. Beer Party (Technomart 9F, Cheers)
July 13, 2004 : IGDA Planning Meeting Report
Attendence: John Song, KGDI and Erik Bethke, Taldren-Korea
Agenda:
Discuss IGDA-Korea Volunteer Staff
Discuss Thing To Do
IGDA-Korea Volunteer Staff
At the current time, John Song and Erik Bethke are the active planning members for IGDA-Korea with advisory roles performed by Thomas Lee, DH Hong of Makkoya, and Andrew Baum of KIPA.
We need more staff to effectively reach out to the Korean Game Development Community.
- Web Designer: Specifically we are looking for a full or part-time web designer, it is likely that we will have sponsorship money to help cover this time, however we would appreciate seeing someone begin this work as soon as possible.
- Event Coordinator: We are looking for an individual or a group of individuals to help with the detailed planning of the events, such as location, food, and emailing out invitations.
Last Meeting
On June 26, 2004 IGDA-Korea was a co-sponsor for a KGDA seminar event. Around 200 game developers participated in this seminar, and all speeches were delivered by local game developers in Seoul .
Jungmin Han (NCsoft) delivered an overview on “Online-Game vs Package game”, Woncheul Yoon(Taldren-Korea) gave a talk on “Practical use of XML with Online-Game system”, Tail Jung(Taldren-Korea) demonstrated that designers can use UML with “ Upgrading game design by using UML” and Seunghoon Lee(Basan Network) outlined his vision for game production with “Introducing game development process”.
Next Meeting
Our next meeting will be held Thursday September 30 th, 2004 . This will be a IGDA Memebers or KGDA members only event. This meeting will be a roundtable discussion that analyzes Lineage II. IGDA and KGDA members will present mini-papers and short critiques of why is Lineage II the #1 MMO in Korea , and more importantly how could Lineage II be a better game? This will be a small event limited to the first 25 people to register for the event.
June 26, 2004: KGDA Developer's Seminar
A day-long event with 4 speakers discussing the latest techniques in game development from local Korean developers. The talks will be in Korean only. Details will be posted soon.
May 21, 2004: IGDA-Korea and KGDA Meeting Report
Attendence:
KGDA: Mr. Cho, Mr. Andrew Sung, Mr.Han
IGDA-Korea: Erik Bethke, DH
Hong, John Song, Andrew Baum, Thoms Lee
Korea is uniquely blessed with at least two government agencies and two independent associations all dedicated helping all Korean game developers. We discussed the areas of the game industry support that KGDA, and IGDA-Korea will cover in a tentative overview. It was agreed that in the case of developers sharing information that there is a strong overlap of interest between the two groups. In the long-term KGDA and IGDA-Korea have expressed a strong desire to work together to build a program of events for all Korean develoeprs to enjoy. We discussed cross promotion of membership lists and we have agreed to do so; however the exact mechanism of cross-promotion will be determined in future meetings. We also discussed possible program material for seminars and this is an area of active discussion betwen IGDA-Korea and KGDA.
May 6th, 2004: IGDA-Korea Chapter Report
We had a great first meeting of the reviatlized IGDA-Korea. Over 70 folks
from all over the game industry attended, including developers from all leading
studious, both branches of the government that support game development - KGDI
and KIPA, as well as members of the gaming press and other interested parties.
The meeting agenda may be found below; however we did decide on the name
IGDA-Korea by a wide margin over IGDA-Seoul. We also decided that Platinum is
too noisy to use as our next venue. We are also in active discussion with both
KIPA and KGDI as well as KGDA about co-hosting several seminars. Several
institutions also stepped forward at the meeting to offer financial support for
IGDA-Korea. Here is the picture evidence that we enjoyed each others company!
Thomas Lee tells a war story...
Designers from
NHN, Taldren-Korea and Makkoya engaged
Stephan from KIPA and Taeson from DAUM catch up 
Roy Kim from CJ Strategy is
relectantly pulled into Erik's story
Korea's game industry grandfather presides over guys from NC Soft 
Thomas kicking off the event
in style
Stephan from KIPA enjoys a joke from Erik with graceful chuckles 