Attendees: Andrew, Jesse, Joel, Jacob, John, Kat, Kotey, Lauren, Tyler

Briefly discussed the situation with Super not happening as an in person event. Potential virtual event depends on Telethon, office staffing, etc.  Should have a decision in 2 weeks.

Virtual Event Confluence (stub will be made from these notes):

https://docs.magfest.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=38928644

ACTION: Joel will invite Andrew hooked into confluence - DONE ACTION: Team brainstorm / secure twitch channel names: MIVS related ACTION: Team will discuss virtual event details in confluence page ACTION: Joel will find out more about the strategic plan (hit up Tronster) ACTION: Jesse will convert these notes into confluence page above - DONE ACTION: Jesse will setup next meeting for Sept 27th - DONE ACTION: Jesse will download all the confluence docs - DONE ACTION: Jesse will determine if reggie will be available for intake or just bypass this year? - BYPASS

MIVS Online Ideas - Roundtable discussion of potential ideas:

Jesse:

• twitch stream mivsfit for the duration
• pics, videos, interview, dev info, social, etc
• intake form from google docs

Andrew: - MIVS itch page/group

• include in live stream, canned stream, demo
• what do we require? must do live stream, live demo?
• itch has a lot of tooling now (donations?)
• how do we review friction of this transaction
• how do we easily refer viewers to the steam/itch page
• cascading plan of ambition: MVP, extension 1, extension 2, etc for our virtual event
• do we have a network of streamer partners that can do this work for us?

Jacob:

• what can be done via itch?
• MVP: mivsfit web page
• Pie in Sky: devolver
• we required playable version for both, maybe playable demo is fine requirement
• statement of putting a bad demo out to general audience vs show floor
• also reservations on allowing indies to host their own.
• mag staff would be in control of the demo

Joel:

• leaning on alumni for this year's event
• mivs all stars
• judging challenges
• 30%-50% of indies sell direct at the event

John:

• itch page is nice
• likes idea of static stream
• and a live stream page
• mini interview after
• also use discord for hosting the dev playing the game
• what is the quality of this re-streaming
• would need to pre-test our setup
• parsec - software to allow screensharing / couch-co-op remote
• twtich chat tools to direct devs to the sale page

Lauren:

• submission intake has dev interview
• last minute alumni would be easier
• some sort of playable stream
• or have the Dev play the game and discuss while friend / self plays it
• likes the idea of bundles

Kotey:

• have the dev call in and do the demo
• give them a slot, call dev and do it
• going to be network/upstream dependent

Tyler:

• VR chat based thing, but haven't seen output
• end of the month demo to BoD
• Amaze Space as a good example
• devs have the opportunity to create their own custom booth into virtual expo hall
• however the dev load seemed pretty high
• how are the resources of the vr chat handled?
• vr chat - node based unity scene

Social Outreach:

• What is our outreach?
• How do we get eyes on what we are doing?
• does mag proper give us eyes?
• MIVS staff can contact streamers to build that network
• what is our ask, when do we start building
• 30-50 concurrent would be killing it

How long could we support this endeavor?

• have auto channel run on its own for the duration
• value add channel: fri night/sat night live?

Discord: - everyone is in that as a backup.