[IGDA_indies] next steps

[Jason Della Rocca]

Hi all,

Great to see some life on the list, and renewed interest in the SIG. And, I 
think an article on French developers would be great!

Always one to look forward, I think it would be wise to have a discussion 
of what the Indie SIG could and should be. Currently, it is a mailing list 
and some web pages with articles, interviews and a resource list. This is a 
good start.

Moving forward, the community should think about some outcomes/goals they 
like to see come out of the SIG.

For example, the Writing SIG felt that there was an overall lack of 
knowledge about writing for games - both for those within industry and 
writers that were perhaps looking at getting into games. So, a few of the 
guys from the SIG worked together, using some online collaboration tools 
(like Wiki) to write a 40+ page guide for game writing. You can check it out:

http://www.igda.org/writing/
http://www.igda.org/writing/files/IGDAWritersGuide.v2.50.zip

For the most part, the IGDA board/management had no real involvement in 
this and it required no special approval or vote or anything. It was just 
the guys in the SIG that saw a need/gap and filled it.

This is just one example. You can check out some of the other SIGs to see 
what they are up to:
http://www.igda.org/SIGs/


Anyway, I don't want to jump ahead too far, but it would be great to get 
some ideas rolling on what the Indie SIG could do.

Regards,
	Jason

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