Attendees:

Travis, Lauren, Tyler, Kotey, Jake, Luigi, John, Kotey, Joel

Agenda:

• Judge emails went out earlier than we anticipated - hooray!
  • We have lost 1-2 judges, so if you know some folks..
  • Blair from Kids of Karendow team interested
• Outreach / marketing
  • More games for more judging
  • Current count: 50 games, 126 studios (combo w/ IA) vs. last year ~2 weeks out 31 games, 81 studios
• Magazine deadlines approaching
  • Perhaps we can come up with some interesting content beyond a list of every MIVS game
  • Have ideas - ‣
  • MAGFest Power MAG'zine Team Open Office Hours next week
    • Wednesday, August 20th, 8pm Eastern
    • Saturday, August 23rd, 4pm Eastern
• Beautification and tournament prizes
  • How can we spruce up our space?
    • (I want standees)
  • Have ideas - ‣
• AI Assets policy
  • Re-discussion
  • Onto the website FAQs?
• Handbook review
  • Some time today, some time later ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jGjOG1DTCDo7Ai4ef7wXEVTedV5Q3U1NC-LERNx9TWI/edit?tab=t.0)
• Discord restructure
• Upcoming & General Reminders
  • Timeline - homepage ( https://www.notion.so/magfest/MIVS-MAGFest-Indie-Videogame-Showcase-ff42b2945ffb43f59e567f210355b827 )
  • Fall MAGCon is October 10-12
    • Fall MAGCon RSVP Form
  • Hall heads meeting still remains every other Tuesday

Lower priority

• Separate “student showcase” with later deadline & increased judging speed?
  • Many student games may not be prepped until late in the semester but a showcase makes such a good deadline for educators.
• Brainstorming a MIVS panel session
  • Have ideas - ‣
• Return of the potential guests or panel topics
  • Post in Slack if you have ideas

Notes:

• Judging
  • add Blair (Kids of Karendow dev)
  • Add Dan (Travis knows)