Casual Games SIG/Conference Calls/September 2008

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

Table of contents

[edit] Role Call

[edit] Who's Here

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


[edit] Who's Not

Dan Prigg, Rex Sikora

[edit] 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


[edit] Initiative Updates

[edit] Whitepaper Update

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


[edit] 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


[edit] Mailing List

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


[edit] Developer Publisher Attribution

  • Dan Prigg, Rex Sikora Not attending


[edit] New Initiatives

[edit] Government Tax Incentives Guide

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

[edit] How to pitch to developers

Table until after whitepapaer

[edit] Women in Casual Games

  • Kirsten will formulate plan to present next time

[edit] US Publishers exploring non-western markets

  • Start with article in the quarterly

[edit] Working groups Meeting

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

[edit] Conferences

[edit] 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

[edit] Hamburg

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