Andy Turner's Distributed Systems Online Games and Simulation Meeting 2007-03-01 to 2007-03-02 Web Page @ School of Geography, University of Leeds

People
- Ann DeMarle
  - Director, Emergent Media Center (EMC) at Champlain College
  - EMC Expertise
  - giv
  - egame
  - egame-prog
- Susan Land (Kathy)
  - http://info.americasarmy.com/projects.php
  - http://csdl2.computer.org/comp/mags/co/2005/09/r9089.pdf
- Brooke Miner
- Crystal Shif
- Dick Price
- Swen Stoop
- Don V Black
  - Formed Orange County Computer Society GameSIG
  - Software developer
  - Flight simulation
- Russel Hunter
  - IGN Entertainment
  - Vice Chair of Publications Orange County Computer Society GameSIG
  - Game and tool developer
- Luz Hernandez (Lucy)
  - Mike Lin's wife
- Mike Lin
  - http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/ocs/cs/gamesig/officers.html
  - Hardware and gaming algorithms
  - Standards
- Andy Turner
Documents
- Agenda
- Motivation and Justification and Topics. Ann DeMarle 2007-03-01.
- Revised Proposal for ACM Transactions on Game Algorithms, Technology, and Engineering (TGATE). Ian Parberry, 2005-09-13.
- IEEE Magazine proposals: Pervasive Computing; Security & Privacy
- Building Tomorrow's IT Workforce. Dick Price, 2006-12-22.
- IEEE Games & Simulation. Dick Price, Associate Publisher, 2007-03-01.
- IEEE Distributed Systems Online. Brooke Miner, 2007-03-01.
- Some web access statisitcs
Notes
- Introductions
- Dick Price
  - IEEE Games & Simulation. Dick Price, Associate Publisher, 2007-03-01
  - Consideration of the next step from DS Online Games & Simulation Topic Area
    - A new online peer reviewed publication.
    - The development of an online games and simulation community
  - Outline of how IEEE & Computer Society are related
  - Consideration of publishing in the internet age.
- Brooke Miner
  - IEEE Distributed Systems Online. Brooke Miner, 2007-03-01.
  - Google page rank is important for how much revenue can be made
- Discussion
  - Considered many different versions or types of online publication that can be based on the same concept.
  - Considered basing a sequence of issues around (a) specific game(s)
  - A Games and Simulation Journal exists
    - Our offering needs a unique selling point.
  - The wisdom of crouds is not a consenus!
    - Nice one Ann :)
  - In computer games we as academics have much to learn from developers and players
    - Children often know more about the new technology marketted to them...
  - What is the middle ground between practitioners, academics and others?
    - Practitioners already aware of the educational value of games
    - Academics are studying what is being learned and how well by designing and playing games
  - Standards?
    - Kathy Land
    - Epistemic games
    - Aaron Thibault - Guild hall gaming programme
    - Game Technology standards committee
    - SAB - Computer Society collection of some 700 standards
- What I want to achieve with a magazine
  - I don't want to spend much time on this.
  - Pull together knowledge and understanding from my colleagues, friends and family
    - Game developers
    - Educational professionals
    - Geographers and other academics
- My list of magazine topics, audience, authors
  - Topics
    - Game development
    - Games in education/teaching games
    - History of games
    - Educational psychology
    - Game technology
    - Standards
    - New games
    - Applications
  - Audience
    - Game developers
    - Game players?
    - Those interested in specific applications
  - Authors
    - Gamasutra
    - Serious games source
    - Second Life Universities
- Brainstorm - putting our ideas together
  - UCI is buying an island in second life - this costs around $1000
  - I considered my position as a geographer and e-Social Scientist and saw this as a unifying topic.
  - Considered developing a proposal to SoG colleagues...
  - Things to think about
    - RSS feeds
    - Supporting a community with collaborative tools like blog and wiki etc...
    - Software magazine shares the administrative burdon by having special issues with guest editorials
    - Developing a scope statement
      - Swen
        
        Science/methodology
        
        How (in what way) why (purpose) when (conditions) games work
        
        Applied
        
        Education
        
        Recruitment
        
        Innovation
        
        Technology
        
        hardware
        
        software
        
        Standards
    - Game Developer conference
    - http://www.gamasutra.com/
    - Ultima Online
    - North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA)
    - ISDA?
    - MIT Technology review
    - Ulima online - one of the oldest social networking games
    - Lots of names of people written down under a set of topics.
    - Interesting aspects of computer games
      - Demographics of players
      - Socio-economics
        
        Social shaping
      - Taxonomy
    - Game Technology (GT) as an academic disciplin
      - Do we understand how a student of GT gets a job in the game industry?
        
        What technology do they need to know?
        
        What skills do they need to have?
        
        Is the games industry looking for graduates with specific skills?
        
        How do games companies recruit?
- Browsing
  - Game courses
  - Searching
    - Google games+simulation search
    - Google game+technology+educational+psychology search
      - http://epistemicgames.org/eg/?p=406
      - http://www.news.wisc.edu/13331.html
      - http://website.education.wisc.edu/gls/GAPPS/
      - http://www.trainingreference.co.uk/e_learning/e_learning_low.htm
    - Google second+life+universities search
    - - Fundamental Principles of Modeling and Simulation. Roger Smith, 1999-03-17
      - http://www.modelbenders.com/papers/
  - Other People
References
- Publications
  - The Magic Circle: Principles of Gaming and Simulation
- Game Links
- Organisations