hi,
yeah it went good. it was fairly informal. everyone just introduced themselves and told the group roughly what they were interested in etc.. (imagine an AA meeting without the drink, hi im peter and ive been doing games research for 2 years). :)
nah seriously though i think it should be good when an academic forum is set up and a mail list of all involved is formed. Wendy I think is trying to organise this for the near future.