[IGDA_indies] Results of the survey?

[Christopher S. Charabaruk]

>> I think it might be best to discuss these in a more interactive way, like
on
>> IRC. That'd be best off later this week, preferably Thursday or Friday
>> evening considering my schedule.
>
> OK, that should work for me as well. Anyone else on this list interested?
> If that will work for you, I'll post this out to a few other IGDA
> lists/forums as well.

Just a note on this, though -- because of my class schedule, plus lab times,
it'd be best that it start at or after 5pm EST and end by 9pm EST on
Thursday. Friday I only have from 2pm EST to 5pm EST, because my college
sucks.

>> Meanwhile, here's what the numbers tell me:
>> * The focus of the SIG should be on self-publishing developers and
>> developers using distribution services such as Steam or RealArcade.
>
> What type of resources do we not have that would be useful to such
> developers?

I'm not saying resources, I'm saying that the goals and mission of the SIG
should be modified to be more in line with the core group of interested
persons (damnit, I sound like a suit). More people are interested in
self-publishing and publishing via services like Steam, and so we should
support them first and foremost. (Apologies to all who take umbrage to
this.)

As for resources to help these people out, we'll just have to hunt for them
or make them ourselves.

>> * The SIG website could really use a new look, and needs to be
re-organized.
>
> We need a good web-designer that has the time to work on the site and
> keep it up to date.

I can come up with a nice redesign (probably using the IGDA site's design or
one from Open Web Design), but keeping content up to date is not the
designer's job. Whoever has content to provide should provide it. That
said, the IGDA wiki is a godsend.

>> * People want a conference more than a collaborative development site.
>
> I'm already working on the initiatives to some extent.

As am I; the one day mini-conference I hosted here in Toronto back in
September has a sequel in planning, hopefully expanded to two days and with
more and better programming (or at the least, better planning for the
programming, since I have 8 months as opposed to 2).

-- 
Christopher S. 'coldacid' Charabaruk <chrisc at meldstar.com>
Meldstar Entertainment -- Creation³ <http://www.meldstar.com/>