Casual Games SIG/Conference Calls/November 2006
International Game Developers Association
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[edit] Role Call
[edit] Who's Here
Jason Akel, James Gwertzman, Kane Minkus, Brian Robbins, James C Smith, Wade Tinney, Margaret Wallace
[edit] Who's Not
Robert Carrol, Charles Merrin
[edit] Next Call
- Tuesday Dec 5th 2pm ET / 11am PT
[edit] Old Business
[edit] SIG Constitution
- Brian would like the group to make tweaks on the page or email him comments.
[edit] Quarterly
- Actual distribution date?
- Firefox issues resolved
- Sent to CGA? CMP? GameDaily (Jason - Yes)
- Wade to send to CGA and CMP.
- Winter issue - 12/5 kickoff
- Wade will call meeting.
[edit] Initiatives Overview
- Data Royalty Reporting Standards Initiative
- James will send industry release within month or two once actual deployment occurs.
- Network reach of aggregators Jason
http://www.igda.org/wiki/index.php/Casual_Games_SIG/Distribution
- Jason emailed community with announcement.
- White Paper Update Margaret, Brian, Kane
- Margaret to send email with outline of where they see white paper going and will call meeting.
- Deployment date to coincide with CGA Conference in Seattle in July 2007.
- Margaret will solicit participation via mailing list and from past editors.
- Advertising Standards James G, Charles (continue, but probably post other things)
- How can we create standards, and how can we encourage portals to adhere these standards
- How can we create standards, and how can we encourage portals to adhere these standards
- No update due to Charles' absence
- Awards Kane, Wade, Brian (Kane is lead)
- Kane to send to group the outline of ideas on award groupings, screen of nominations, and voting procedures
- Discussion had with CGA. "Zeebies" awards. Concensus is that we should work with CGA, but have a developer awards section named different than "Zeebies". Comparison drawn in some ways to Academy Awards Technical Achievement awards.
- Continued discussion to be had with CGA.
- Evolve the existing mailing list?
- Brian will post to list to see if someone will volunteer to help add search capability to the list archive found here: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/casual_games/
- We will request that John Welch provide SIG 1 page handout, mailing list signup, and business card drop at the GDC Summit
- Idea rejected to promote list and SIG via paid advertising.
- Developer Outreach Margaret
- Margaret to discuss with Jessica Tams coordinating for GDC Minna Mingle party. Idea would be to sponsor some contest, event, etc. with IGDA SIG name on it but not have to run the party.
[edit] New Business
- GDC Summit via John Welch
- John agreed to following:
- Jason requested, "Printed version of the most recent quarterly with any updates we have at the time – would be based on the Winter issue which releases early February. If we have part 1 of our DRM whitepaper initiative, we’ll include this as well…not certain it will be ready but will give you status as we get closer. If desired, we can also include printings of other resources we’ve developed up to that point, e.g. the distributor network reach lists, reporting initiative and update, snapshot of the top ten charts."
- John agreed to following:
- Creating a Budget
- Group members will send Jason Akel funding needs for their initiatives for next year (project and required dollars).
- Rejected idea to raise funds for prospective needs. Rather solicit funds from IGDA, most likely, in line with known basic needs. Needs primarily aligned with printing costs.
- Casual SIG website
- Jason to examine and update
