Attending: Jacob, Kat, Marc, Joel, Lauren, Kotey, Tyler, John, Jesse Regrets: Andrew, Jeremy, Nichole

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ft4Jb0jc_OHnaQjaODkmcsSw6h4HFmky/edit#gid=1804782861

Penalty:

• Jesse: no penalty
• Joel: no penalty
• Jacob: no penalty
• John: no opinion
• Kotey: no penalty
• Lauren: no penalty - but some new
• Tyler: no penalty
• Marc: no penalty
• Kat: no penalty
• No Penalty this year, but this year counts towards penalty

Results:

• 40 game break point is about Loop Thesis 6.6

Accepted: 35 Waitlist: 19 Declined: 10

Judges:

• export
• first pass around here
• ensure we have some fresh stuff
• mark entries and then approve email
• how many do we generally waitlist
• squirrely roo, bump them up

Thanks again for submitting your game (1000 Deaths) to the MAGFest Indie Videogame Showcase. In the few coming weeks, our judges are hard at work wrapping up their reviews and staff will be tallying up scores. You can expect to hear whether or not your game has made it into the showcase by 11:59pm EDT on Thursday, Oct 28.

Send top 20, waitlist the rest

Threshold:

• waitlist to threshold 5.0 maybe 4.5
• pull late (eagle island and the other "the professor") next after gretchen   - Che L. Rose / Dir. Cookout Games
• gray list the late entry that was (Samuel)

Judging Email:

• start sending emails soonish
• add link to covid policy to accepted email:   - https://super2022.reggie.magfest.org/email_admin/pending_examples?ident=mivs_game_accepted

MIVS makes coin sim

• great flip off

1000 Deaths

• Lauren will message IA about it not making the cut

Dev Feedback:

• ACTION: need disclaimer on judging form that the anon feedback may be shared
• ACTION: Judges should not reach out to devs directly (clarify) - add to judging email.

Layout:

• gaylord is doing reno during magfest
• we may not know for another week until after fan gamer gets back in a week
• may release merch to us or another relocated group (from reno moves)
• move merch to reg makes tons of sense
• indie arcade would like to be more integrated with us (yet sep)   - dedicated jam pods towards back of whatever (they want good neighbors)
• they want to combine ops and share overnights
• use the rollup areas for eating? storage room rollup? let indies in/out

Staffing:

• expect staff shortages
• IA will have them and DBAA
• Babycastles may not have any people
• we had 4/5 randoms from staff
• did the schedule get imported?
• staff burnout: sharing staffers/coverage etc
• scooters
• ACTION: Kat will reach out to volunteers (volunteers are in reggie)

Cleaning:

• rolling blackout for cleaning will be happening? WIP
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wphbL1YdS_M

Tournaments:

• Dedicated space? shared with IA
• kotey may provide his alt-setup? he will think about it
• them fightin' herds

Versus

• ACTION: ping Mat and let know where we are at

Meeting:

• talk to IA in Nov
• next meeting Oct 24th