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ok I think the general agreement is for Thurs the 27th this time. I know the guys in Torc are up to their eyes at the moment so hopefully they won’t mind ..
Skyclad is going to check out if Mahaffey’s is ok for a Thurs night so bear with us on the venue…
Aphra.
sorry about the delay in getting back..
if you mail me through the contact section of this website I can mail you back with a contact name in WIT..I don’t have all the details to hand yet..when I get them I will post them on the site
Aphra.
mm, I like it…might have to change my name on the boards?! Jamie..no nicking….it is all mine..
Aphra.
so that is where you get meeja from, your surname….? Am I the only slow person??
I am sure I could do something with my first name..
Aphra.
TIGA, the independent game developers association in the UK, is actively lobbying to expand the R&D tax credit system in the UK to include the entire game development process. I would say it is worth keeping an eye on.
Aphra.
the forfas digital content report estimated there were about 12 companies ( 9 Irish and 3 international) and taking 8 of these companies, for some reason, they estimated there were about 193 people in the sector.
my own, conservative estimate, would put the number of companies around 20 ( 14 Irish and 6 foreign owned) and around 355 people employed in total. These are definite companies I have interviewed in the past two years and don’t include companies whose names I have just heard or start-ups with only one employee etc. A good deal of these employees however (about 180 ) work in localisation. Only about 50 work in game development itself. The rest in related activities…e.g. middleware…
Aphra.
Omen,
Typical eh..I thought you guys were going down to present your project idea. So what kind of things were they looking for and asking about.
Aphra.
Here is a useful list of game related courses on the web..
http://www.trinity.edu/adelwich/games/syllabi.html
Aphra.
well we have Thurs 27th, Fri. 28th and Sat. 29th to consider.. someone else thought a Sat. might be good too..I don’t really have a preference…it is up to you guys..
I thought the pub was good this time though!
Aphra.
now that might be an interesting story..who are MMID and where are they based?
Meeja – unfortunately the Sony office in Ireland don’t have any say in actually publishing games so we couldn’t pursue the criteria thing..hopefully we’ll get one of those interviews soon..
Aphra.
PS nice to see you were all chatting while I was off in Utrecht at the DIGRA games conference – met with Idora, Hugh from Blanch IT and Darryl from UU there too..
fitch..hey if you can call in for one do…so at least you will know our faces for the next one..Alan..well maybe next time…
Christmas will have to be a weekend event, or a Thurs and Friday at least to get everyone along…
see you all tomorrow evening..I guess I’ll be there around 7 to pick Skyclad up out of the corner!!
Aphra.
well had the meeting this morning and I circulated the gamedevelopers.ie discussion document. They hope to have their report to the Forfas steering committee before Chrismas so hopefully there will be something in the Christmas stockings or the New Year for Irish game developers…
do you think I should put that document up on the website or does it need more work? We could call it a draft I guess..
Aphra.
The following was just forwarded to me by a colleague in DCU..any legal brains out there to work out the implications?..
Aphra
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Apparently, it is now legal under American law to circumvent copy protection if the software is considered obsolete:On October 28, 2003, the Librarian of Congress, on the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, announced the classes of works, subject to the exemption from the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works.
The four classes of works exempted are:
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(3) Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.I have posters..will put them up if the pub is ok with that…they have the logo from this site and our name on them – I’ll bring a big pen to draw arrows!
Aphra.
Thanks Peter and Tony for your inputs. I will bring the document with me tomorrow to the Forfas meeting as it is a useful basis for discussions. Thanks to others who made suggestions off the forums – your inputs were included but no-one in particular identified as the author.
Who knows, it could be the start of an IGDA policy document for the Irish chapter.
I will let you know tomorrow afternoon how things went..
Aphra.
