Manila

Hi everyone,

Our first IGDA Meeting for this year will be on Feb. 13, 2007. The venue is at the Secret6 office at the Taipan Place in F. Ortigas (formerly Emerald Road), Ortigas Center. Meeting starts after work at around 6PM.

Topic of the talk: First look at the PS3! Ron Schaffner will be in town from the US so everyone can take a look at what the PS3 can offer. Also, they will be preparing a talk about game art.

See you there!

Hi All,

Thanks for those who attended the Chapter Night! We had fun swapping stories about our game development works, we had lots of people, lots of food and lots of fun. Hope to do this again nearing Christmas =)

Group Pic, taken early in the evening, more people followed later

Luna of Anino Entertainment, who shared with us a quick post mortem of the game Timothy and Titus

Ranulf of Matahari Studios, informally discussing the plans for the game development industry organization for the Philippines

Minutes of the Meeting

Seperate Game Development Industry Organization discussion
- We have consulted experienced people regarding setting up the new org, and we're pushing thru with the creation of the org, target is end of this year
- Ranulf of Matahari Studios has provided draft goals and bylaws to be reviewed by potential member companies
- This org will hopefully be funded by game development companies here and by grants with the help of government
- This org will in turn help fund IGDA Manila activities as well, so that there would be no problems not having a legal entity
- Supported activities would include GDC, AGDS and UGG

Asian Game Developer Summit 2006
- Gaby of Flipside is in charge of coordinating speakers and delegates from PH
- We will try to go as a PH delegation so that organizing the trip can be easier and the expenses can be lowered down
- We hope to introduce more PH people to the event, we hope we can host the event in PH by next year

UGotGame and other events this year and next year
- UGG will have an exhibition type environment more than competition, and it will be now limited to just student category
- 10 game dev slots and 4 mod slots are allocated, this might change due to the number of entries
- Matahari Studios will be a primary sponsor, and other game development companies might sponsor as well, depending on the package

Chapter Get together and sponsorship
- David formerly of Pixelstream will be organizing a Chapter Night get together, Luna of Anino will be coordinating for the venue
- Most likely in Boni this August or September
- We plan to present post mortems about Anino's Timothy and Titus and Ladyluck's Terrawars:NY
- In this event, we would be more of a community night rather than a formal meeting

Thanks,

Ranulf

IGDA Manila Board Members

Meeting Discussion Points:

1) Ranulf Goss (IGDA Manila Chairperson/PowR Games) introduced the IGDA's mission and goals, and the IGDA Manila Chapter's direction.

2) Luna Cruz (Anino) shared her experience in attending the Asian Game Development Summit held last year in Malaysia

3) Alex Calero (Azalea) discussed the benefits of having an industry organization, citing the benefits given to other industry organizations

4) John David Uy (Laro/Pixelstream) discussed the future benefits of an game industry organization, from guiding educational institutions to solving logistical issues

5) The game development companies gave presentations about their respective companies and some demos of the games that they are developing

Thanks to all those who attended the event, including the IGDA board members, and DLSU-CCS for giving us time and venue for this event.

Hi All,

Here are the minutes of the IGDA chapter meeting last February 11:

1. New Board Members Announcement

We now have 14 advisory board members, and more to follow. The new members are :

Noel Lim ( Secret Six )

Rainier Umali ( Vitas )

John David Uy ( Laro )

Alex Calero ( Azalea )

Chris Arquiza ( LadyLuck )

Raffy Cabredo ( De la Salle )

Also, Gaby Dizon of Flipside is appointed International Liason of IGDA Manila chapter, to represent the Manila chapter in international events like GDC. Congratulations, Gaby!

Finally, a new start up game development company, Matahari Studios has joined the IGDA Manila chapter.

2. Emerging Technologies Conference

Raffy of DLSU is coordinating with IGDA Manila chapter with regards to the conference. Each member company of IGDA manila will be given 15 minutes to discuss their respective companies on the afternoon of the second day of the event, and those who are board members would be given VIP access to the event.

3. Elections/ Appointments issue

Neil of Anino raised his concern regarding officers and by-laws of the chapter. The board has unanimously tasked David of Laro/Pixelstream to research on other IGDA chapter's setup and discuss which setup would be best. The result of his research will be discussed in the Emerging Technologies Conference.

4. Schedule of Chapter meetings and corresponding presentors:

Q2 ( around late May ):
Laro/Pixelstream
Azalea
Anino Entertainment

Q3: ( around late August ):
Flipside
Slycesoft
Matahari

Q4: ( around late November ):
DLSU
Others

We would be adjusting our chapter meetings to evenings and we would try to have a large venue for presentations.

5. Sponsorships

IGDA Manila would be looking for sponsors for the next chapter meetings throughout the year. Target companies would include software and hardware companies, and food companies.

6. Seperate legal organization

Alex of Azalea would be talking with the Animation Council of the Philippines regarding the process of setting up the legal game developer organization. This would be discussed in the Emerging Technologies Conference.

Meeting Pictures:

Meeting Attendees:

Ranulf Goss
Allan Estioko
Altair Martinez
Michael Sean Tan
John David Uy
Gabby Dizon
John Morin
Chris Arquiza
Nobuhiro Fujii
A.R. Umali, jr.
Rainier B. Umali, M.D.
Alex Calero
Dindo Dagaas
Patrick McQuilken
Enrico Orbe
Paolo V. Cordero
Kristoffer Glenn M. Fernandez
Ritwic Ricardo M Bhonjon
Paulo Trinidad r. Tible
Marjorie Pantig
Jeff lontoc
Noel Lim
Mark Vincent Rodriguez

Meeting Discussion Points:

1.Asian Game Developers Summit (AGDS) - review of the events that transpired in the summit, some feedback from those who attended from the Philippines, and heads up for the next one next year.

2.Legal Game Developers Organization - we discussed the need to have a legal non-profit organization to represent game developers in the IT organizations and government here, same as what we have in our animation industry. The representatives of the game developer companies here agree to pursue creation of the organization, which would focus more on game development industry building and other things which IGDA manila chapter will not cover. The game development representatives will meet again to further discuss this.

3.Emerging Technologies event( pseudo-Game Development Conference ) - we announced the upcoming Emerging Technologies event. It will be held in March 2-3, 2006, in a hotel, fully sponsored by
one of our top universities. All of the tracks will be presented by people from IGDA manila chapter member companies. There would be tracks for game design, programming, and arts, and would tackle mobile and PC game development.