Casual Games SIG/Conference Calls/September 2006
International Game Developers Association
Table of contents |
[edit] Role Call
[edit] Who's Here
Jason Akel, Robert Carrol, James Gwertzman, Kane Minkus, Brian Robbins, James C Smith, Wade Tinney, Margaret Wallace
[edit] Who's Not
[edit] Attendees Anticipated
Charles Merrin
[edit] Apologies
[edit] Action Items
[edit] Next Call
- Tuesday Oct 3rd 2PM EST
[edit] Old Business
[edit] GDC submissions
- Wade, Brian, Robert all got the sessions submitted, just waiting to hear back
[edit] Process / Governage
- We will select/finalize the leadership at this month's meeting. Current Chair is Brian and Charles is Secretary. Brian will be stepping down over the next month.
- Other positions?
Robert - wants to help as much as possible, but doesn't feel like he has the time Kane - doesn't have the background experience that others have, and time is an issue Jason - From a casual perspective James C. Smith - Doesn't have enough experience with the SIG, and knowing the mission Margaret - Time commitment is the issue
- Jason Akel - could do it for 6 months, and then see how it goes
- Brian will be backup note taker if Charles is not there
[edit] SIG Constitution
- Brian has worked has this
- Will send out the link to the group when finished
[edit] Goals for the year
[edit] Quarterly
- Dave Weller - Microsoft, possibly have an XNA article in an upcoming quarterly?
- Can look at this for the winter issue
- Wade had a planning call last Thursday
- If anyone wants to volunteer to write then we need them to get in touch with James and/or Wade
- Next issue deadline is next Friday
- Will be released Oct 13th
- Robert will also look to have a post-mortem for the winter issue
- Kane's audio article should be for the fall issue
- Articles are ~1500-2000 words
- Also looking to include SecurePlay article
- Should be a Gamelab article too
- Incorporate slide presentations from various conferences
- Post mortem on XBLA games
- Getting this through to CGA, Gamezebo
- Also trying GameDaily, etc.
[edit] Idea Overview
This month we need to identify the 2-3 of these ideas we are going to work on first. (See August 2006 notes for more info).
- Quarterly Wade
- Post Mortems Robert Working on these via the Quarterly
- DRM Jason (article for quarterly, then go from there)
- Encourage more articles and data sharing James Smith
- Business Info Robert Will start focusing on this more
- Network reach of aggregators Jason (is in process, have 6-7 responses out of 20 so far)
- Data Standards Initiative James G Charles (still in process, just need it implemented)
- We need to centralize a place to publicize this
- White Paper Update Margaret Brian Kane (Need to plan this for moving forward, how will this continue to be updated?)
- Conference Group Gatherings (Is setup for GDC)
- Wiki Maintenance (ongoing)
- Advertising Standards James G Charles (continue, but probably post other things)
- Awards Kane Wade Brian (Kane take the lead and see what we can do)
- Wade in particular is interested in trying to have some sort of cross-portal "people's choice" style vote
- This could become a sort of marketing tool?
- Facilitate Community James Smith
- Evolve the existing mailing list? Wade
- Developer Reach out Margaret
- Can we put out some sort of regular update?
- What's going on locally, Quarterly release, etc.
- Could be a great way to keep the SIG fresh in people's minds
- What about organizing gatherings in other places beyond CGA locations?
- One potential issue is that we don't have a "physical presence"
- Would we be providing coordination for this? (Jason will think about this)
- GDC party? Participate with Minna Mingle next year?
Items that are not being actively worked on for now
- HelpShare Q&A Jason (on hold for now)
- Standardization Rob (on hold for now)
- Other Standards? James G
- CGA Bridge James
- Support audio development Kane
- Conference Support Kane
- Put more effort into existing tools
[edit] New Business
none
