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Peter,
I seem to have left your business card at home so I emailed the draft document to your info@meeja.com address. Hope that is ok…anyone else who wants to comments just let me know and I can send it on..
Aphra.
I am going to draft a submission today as I am meeting with Forfas tomorrow. I will then circulate it to the most prolific posters on this topic – e.g. Idora and Meeja for feedback. If there are others who wish to have ideas or comments incorporated please post before lunch.
Once we have a finished document (probably 2 pages) I will make it available in the Resources section of the website.
ok?
Aphra.
well I’ve been looking at that very issue in my game players research. It emerged as an important issue when I was advertising in various fora looking for female gamers – it appears that many females do not see themselves as gamers and even if they play games they don’t see themselves as gamers.
That to me was very interesting. Firstly I had to change the wording of my ads and make it clear that I was looking for females who played games, not gamers. Secondly, it emerged in the interviews that there were different definitions of what a gamer was but many had negative and gendered connotations.
there is more to say about this but suffice to say at this stage that I am careful about how I use the term gamer now…
by the way, anyone going out to the GaelCon this weekend and do you know if you need to register or anything in advance…
Aphra.
and if you are looking for an illustrator take a look here.
http://www.illustratorsireland.com/illustrators/index.html
Aphra.
I’ve been invited to meet with Forfas people the week after this and while I can obviously offer my own thoughts it would be useful I think to offer feedback from this forum. So if there are additional ideas please post them here. By the end of the week/this weekend I will collate them and make it available on the website.
best wishes
Aphra.
it is not surprising that most people know about Havok given how good they are at marketing themselves and their presence at all the major trade shows and magazines. There are lessons to be learned there..
as an aside we have a company database structure ready to put up on the site as we felt the skills database was more geared to individuals..I hope to get someone to start populating that in the next week or so with company data that has already been entered into the skills database ..and we will be inviting companies who are not in the skills database to enter info. too.. this should give visibility to companies..
Aphra.
Hi all,
I think maybe we should rename this thread so we have the history of the discussion as well as suggestions.
I know Forfas have been approaching Irish companies and asking them for input. These have approached some mobile companies and some start-ups. When I presented a paper on policy for the Irish games industry in Manchester a couple of weeks ago there were two Forfas people at the presentation, so they are certainly getting around.
I will see if I can find out who is working on this in Forfas and if they are interested in a two/three page submission arising from these discussions. They might be interested at the very least in reading our discussions here..
If I get some agreement on renaming this thread I will do so after lunch..
Aphra.
Hi all,
These are useful suggestions. I hear that Forfas are currently drafting an internal report on the games industry. If we get some useful suggestions here I/with others who wish to help, can collate them and maybe make a submission. Then we will have made a collective input to the policy making process.
Aphra.
for those who haven’t read what was said see the minister’s press release here http://www.marine.gov.ie/modules/pressreleases.asp
scroll down to the 26th of September..
i like particularly the term ‘games software writing’..
Jamie…when we see what Mahaffeys is like we might invite him on down and give him a soap box…
Aphra.
