Attendees: Luigi, John Frye, Jake, John, Travis, Cralls, Kotey, Lauren, Joel, Tyler, Socks
Agenda:
- Communication needs (JFrye aka Swadgeman)
- Potential partnership/sponsorship opportunity (Cralls)
- Launch update
- Action item review
- Call for new topics
- Potential Parking Lot items to work on now https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H4lRoAQ8eiOMNWVyQ_yZqppndaa5FtqYt2OiioKDovU/edit?gid=201959499#gid=201959499
- Handbook - TLDR/Quick Facts intro at beginning of handbook
- Handbook - add tip about adding a timer to the demo for a super long game
- Discord - Add a Maintenance/Emergencies channel to Discord for actual pings/not general chatter.
- A flier for indie gaming with info on how, when to apply. What it is.
- Gamification - mini games to engage with indies. take a quest, leave a quest. post quests of the day throughout day and redeem for mpoints.
- MIVSfit - socks suggested having some sort of interactive kiosk like instead of just projecting MIVSfit, have clickable things for people
- MAG owns a bunch of empty Viewlix cabs we could use (probably. ask Beale)
Notes:
- Comms of the Kingdom w/ JFrye
- If you want a social media post, put a request in #socialmeadia-requests
- Asset pack with all the art assets is pinned in #theme-team
- This is also where to request things you need that are not in the asset pack
- Mediatron has all their photos on https://magfest.smugmug.com/ now, so we can use whatever is in there
- Signage - this is on the DH checklist
- Potential partnership/sponsorship opportunity with Cralls!
- Cralls went to Games for Change and was approached by the Senior Community Manager from Unity, Kirk Musngi. He was a former MIVS dev and has attended 10 or so years
- Want to support something that has to do with developers, education, etc. Something that would be good for the dev community. Not as interested in having their names plastered everywhere.
- Looking for pitches from us on what we might want from them - scholarships, game jams, etc.
- Good time to respond if we want to do something for 2025, need to respond “quickly”
- Cralls is thinking maybe this is a 2026 thing? In which case, we can just continue the convo and pitch later for 2026.
- Cralls will be our point of contact for now, but would be good to get us all in the same room if and whenever we move forward with this. Cralls will also take care of the admin piece.
- Discussion
- Would they be willing to post on their page promoting the games in our showcase and what would they want for it? Would also want all games promoted not just Unity games
- Equipment/travel grant?
- Are Epic Mega Grants still happening? They are agnostic about it.
- If it was a game jam thing, it’s gross if it’s made in Unity, but cool if they were just a sponsor of prizes or something
- Bringing a group of students/scouts/Girls Who Code/steam team of some sort for the day and meet & greet with real life devs
- Sponsoring the indie mixer
- They could sponsor devs (MIVS or otherwise) who want to do a panel
- We offer to let Unity do a panel themselves?
- IA form is live and we’re sad
- Launch
- Delayed to at least end of the month. Will ping Vicki next week and see how we’re doing, but if it’s not going to be done by August 1, then let’s just launch without the changes.
- Discord cleanup
- let’s align our channels. have a general chat for all and move people into a year specific channel for event instead of the other way around which is how we do it now.
- Parking lot items
- Does any of this look cool? Do it!
- Travis and Luigi interested in potential gamification ideas
Action Items:
- Lauren: Can we get dimensions from Faith/hotel about size of suites? In particular, the living areas.