# Unigames Committee Meeting #7 - 16/04/2020 #### Attending - Alistair - Taylor - Jackie - Autumn - Emerald - Alice - Ash - Josh - Gwen - Kyle - and.... Alaura :D - alaura is a nerd **Meeting scheduled**: 5:00pm **Meeting open**: 5:08pm ## Reports: ### President's Report (Alistair): - Got an email from Manjedal confirming dates - Emailed Tactics to ask about Magic products - Got a message from PBW about the 40th, talking to him now - Stooped to new levels and I’m watching Greys Anatomy - Slowly going mad my dudes - Wanna be in Cameron Hall ### Vice-President's Report (Taylor): - Appearance of a wild emerald has improved mood significantly - Doing living room committee meetings with the minutes on the TV - Time has ceased to have any meaning - Stop examplify! ### Treasurer's Report (Jackie): - oooh boy i'm really feeling it - helped out with the deception boardgames event! - ran werewolf on the fly and died just a little - we now have a very simple werewolf/mafia bot that committee has tested! - go wild kids play werewolf/mafia on the discord server - Test game just occurred: not impressed but use it if you want - also wrote an email to jameson about spg grants! - account balance: $1,493.57 - cash on hand: $7 ### Secretary's Report (Autumn): - girls ive gotta say we're really in it now - charity unvigil meeting, have a big update to deliver on that - worked on recruiting motw GMs - talked to alice about fresher games - im posting through it ### Librarian's Report (Emerald): - moved into taylor and gozz's!! - went to ikea, couldn't enter because everyone was there? - helped jackie write the letter to jameson - toying with the idea of making a random task generator for goose larp ### Fresher Rep's Report (Alice): - The freshers are alive. I think. - Poked a bunch of people about fresher games! - Alistair is wrathful towards his copy/pasted invitation ### Reports de la OCM (Ashleigh, Gwen, Josh, Kyle): - Ash: - Currently in the bathroom - Had board games night on Friday - Ran from 5 to around 7 - Chonky thanks to Gwen, Jackie, Josh for helping run the night and explaining rules and games and such <3 <3 <3 - Extra shoutout to Jackie for the on the fly werewolf game, it went really well, especially for a first time on the fly <3 - Had issue with tos, turns out you have to pay if you have a new account (oof), and logging in was a struggle (OOF) - Mainly played secret hitler, little bit of coup, and werewolf. - god i miss irl interaction - Gwen: - Deception board games was great fun. Big shoutout to Jackie for doing werewolf last minute. - Made some GM tips, feel free to suggest more if yall think of any. Also I think we should be sending them to all one shot GMs before a oneshot (just in case). - Gosh I can't wait for all this pandemic stuff to be over. - Josh: - Attended deception board games: first half was a bit rough but thank you to jackie for reining it in - Stalked other discords and took inspiration of what a good organisation might be - Kyle: - Ran painting day! Happy to run the event again in future - Tackled vassal but had difficulty dealing with the user interface ## Past action Items: Taylor: > Revise the fresher signup form (along with Autumn, Alice) - no > Increase the capacity of the halloween wrath pipeline (along with Jackie) - wrath is being diverted towards the university > Think about Ghost Camp (along with Emerald) - had thoughts! Jackie: > Increase the capacity of the halloween wrath pipeline (along with Taylor) - nope > Email Jameson to ask about the status of TTS SPGs - done! Autumn: > Organise MOTW and track down GMs and advertise - work in progress > Revise the fresher signup form (along with Taylor, Alice) - it's happening Emerald: > Think about Ghost Camp (along with Taylor) - yeah! Alice: > Revise the fresher signup form (along with Taylor, Autumn) - done > Keep collecting GMs for fresher campaigns - done > Open up player signups for fresher campaigns - not done Kyle: > Make a Community craft hour event - done > Find a friend for wargames - done > Think about the future of wargaming (assets and purchases) (along with Josh) - done Josh: > Think about the future of wargaming (assets and purchases) (along with Kyle) - got upset with this action item, done > Writeup your proposed new order for the Discord channels - done Gwen: > Be responsible for making a GM reference doc - done Other: > (All) Consider which charities we would like to support - nominations approved > (All) Brainstorm ideas for discord activities - thoughts have happened ## Agenda ### Usual Suspects: #### Boardgames - Deception board games [Last Friday] - First half was rough, we should work to do better that the programs we use are understood - Secret Hitler was difficult to join - Town of Salem had issues where brand new users couldn't play for free - Coup and Werewolf worked particlarly well with a GM running it - After a human-run game happened, we installed a bot to run the game, but it doesn't seem nearly as nice - Next board games event, week after next week - Taylor advocates for codenames as an online game - Alaura points out that if one person has a physical copy they can stream the board - Could we run a Quarantine Experimentation Game Night where we take submissions ahead of time and see if we can run games online? - Try to get a proper TTS chat going - Could we have TTS-specific nights, and focus the regular boardgames nights on non-TTS games? - So RN we're planning two boardgames nights: a TTS night when committee are free to host it, and our proper fortnightly boardgames night - TTS nights should have a few days warning at least, and we should look to make it a set day of the week if we can. Multiple committee members are keen to be in the organisation for that. >Emerald: Be responsible for TTS Tuesdays! #### RPGs - Monster of the Week - GMs are Autumn, Emerald, Vikrum and Merlin (text only) - Emerald has very very kindly offered to rearrange her fresher game so we can run on Friday next week (23/4) >Autumn, Emerald: Get set for MOTW night - The subsequent RPG - Alice is familiar with the Star Wars systems and can try to get that organised for May the Fourth! - Taylor: Check with unisfa if they're also doing something for may the fourth >Alice: Organise star wars rpg night - GM reference doc - Thank you Gwen!! - Everyone who is interested in GMing games online please give it a read - Should we provide a big resources post? Combining all the links in one place - Idea of putting all of this information in one big doc but that can be very intimidating - Alaura: If we make a masterlist then we should share it to reddit to get feedback #### Magic - The new set comes out on MTG arena today/tomorrow - Donald posted a state of the game update about arena - Alistair talked to tactics: - The commander decks are coming out on 15/5 along with the physical product of the set - They can be preordered from tactics and delivered to you for $60 - Can we use discord for having MTG arena online matches? - Apparently Max posted a mod for TTS that allows for a simulacrum of MtG - Reminder that cockatrice exists - do we want to officially support a tool like this? - Should we have an MTG night? Magic mondays? Friday night magic? #### Wargames - Painting day - Kyle is happy to continue doing painting days - We had low turnout for this last one, but it was nice - Let's do at least once more and see how it goes - This one didn't have a lot of notice - Kyle would love Wargame wednesdays but that clashes with the charity unvigil meeting - Would a craft event be more appropriate to do during the day on the weekend? - "Stanley Knife Saturdays" - emerald's attention is captured by the utterance of sksks #### Fresher Campaigns - GM signups - We have 11 GMs signed up - Fresher signups - The player signup form has been edited but needs to be sent out - Alice is very insistent on being yelled at >Taylor, Autumn, Alice: Send out fresher campaign player signups ### Events: #### Halloween 2019: - No update >Jackie: Get in touch with Aoibhinn #### Prosh: - Donations close tomorrow, so if you're intending to donate: https://bit.ly/prosh2020 #### Charity UnVigil: - Update - PCS has joined the crew, bringing our number to 4 - Charities to Support - We have realised that Friends with Dignity is primarily QLD focused and are prioritising the WA based charities - Activities on our night - Plan for D&D oneshots and parallel boardgames - Activities on the collab night - Discussion of Artemis Lan - All clubs are keen but there are many technical challenges - Artemis is difficult to install/distribute and also to communicate between each other when the teams aren't in rooms together - Gozz has apparently heard of a possible alternative to artemis? >Taylor: Ask Gozz about an Artemis alternative - Budget - Draft budget is currently that each of the four committees will chip in $100 for prizes - We can approve the numbers between all clubs and potentially approve later changes - The one requirement we could impose is that at minimum X% of that money goes towards thing useful to people in quarantine - this could just be a nice recommendation - Over the next week, think about what we want to think about our prize budget - - Raffle prizes - We should ask Tactics about whether they would like to support this event - We should also plan out if we would like to spend any money on 1-to-2 player games from tactics - We can also distribute TTS keys as prizes >Autumn: Phone tactics and ask if they would like to support charity unvigil #### Empires: - There's been a few people who have failed to follow up and need to be bugged #### [REDACTED] 2020: Ghost Camp: - Untitled Goose LARP - This was our concept for an around-the-home scavenger hunt - Emerald has brought up the idea of a random task generator to put together household objects into goosely tasks - Taylor would like to look into methods of doing a quiz or quiz-adjacent activity - Kahoot quizzes? - We cannot simply transfer our usual quiz format into online - Alice: Could we make a quiz where we expect people to cheat? - Could we angle the quiz towards things that you can't just google? Table-round-style creative prompts? - Having a combination of completely open ended creative stuff, questions that require lateral thinking, and trivia that needs to be answered quickly - Family Feud?? >Alistair: Look into kahoot/quiz options - There is an assassins-esque type of game that taylor has encountered - Everyone gets a word, and needs to find a way to drop it into conversation naturally without being detected - Could this work in an online format? - Maybe make the game about call and response codephrases - Debates - Yelling on discord - This could be stressful but doable for people who like >Taylor: Mastermind Ghost Camp (Become the Ghost) #### [REDACTED] 2021, hopefully: - We have received confirmation that our booking has been bumped to 19/6/21-22/6/21, which is our first preference ### Room Update: - lol ### Reimbursements: - Pending: - Emerald for Oday Ice once she brings her receipt - Kyle: $104.22 once Guild lets us make withdrawals - Jackie: -$7 ### Guild: - Special Projects Grants - Jackie sent an email to Jameson asking about TTS grants - No updates yet - Emerald raises the idea of asking the TTS developer for a discount >Emerald: Email the tabletop creators to ask for a discount ### General Business: #### Website: - Current website: - Committee needs to be updated - The FAQ needs to be updated to reflect the following revelations from Peter Brian Williams: - The truth is that the Simulation society went defunct and did not merge into the Wargames society decades ago - This means that Unigames is not the age we thought, and this is actually our 40th anniversary year - Autumn said she would update the website earlier this year - a lot of information needs revising and the Webkeepers should be involved - Both the website and the facebook page have the wrong colour dragon >Taylor: Contact Frames to find out where the lie began >Alaura: Help us find the right coloured dragon for the FB banner >Taylor: Get in contact with Webkeepers about the status of the website - New website: - Most library databases are suited to either books or not-books - We will be therefore be getting a homemade database - Taylored - to our specifications - Priority 2: Ability to electronically track our borrowing. Would require maintaining a database of our membership - Priority 3: Wrapping those up into a nice pretty website that's easily accessible - Concept of a "Catdog style interface" where both the frontend and backend are a frontend - i.e. the librarian interface is very user friendly - There are many grand plans and irons in the general orbit of fires - We have an understanding of how it is done based on our previous work with the professional computing unit #### Discord: - Josh presents his proposed new layout for the discord - Also has prepared a notification message to let people know about the change - There is also a notification of the concept of our weekly post games - Committee learns that "LFG" stands for "Looking for games" and not "Let's fucking go" >Alistair: Implement changes to the Discord #### Book Repair - With the return of library books back to safekeeping, Emerald is now keen to repair library books during the closure - Has assembled a $10.37 shopping list of book repair supplies - Budget approved unanimously - This would require some degree of visiting the clubroom to grab/drop library items >Alistair: Email Jacob/Elanor to get permission for Emerald to enter the building for short spans >Emerald: Repair books (yeah!!) **Meeting closed**: 7:02pm - Alaura has no rights -- This Week's Action Items: Alistair: > Look into kahoot/quiz options > Implement changes to the Discord > Email Jacob/Elanor to get permission for Emerald to enter the building for short spans Taylor: > Send out fresher campaign player signups (along with Autumn, Alice) > Ask Gozz about an Artemis alternative > Mastermind Ghost Camp (Become the Ghost) > Contact Frames to find out where the lie began > Get in contact with Webkeepers about the status of the website Jackie: > Get in touch with Aoibhinn Autumn: > Get set for MOTW night (along with Emerald) > Send out fresher campaign player signups (along with Taylor, Alice) > Phone tactics and ask if they would like to support charity unvigil Emerald: > Be responsible for TTS Tuesdays! > Get set for MOTW night (along with Autumn) > Email the tabletop creators to ask for a discount > Repair books (yeah!!) Alice: > Organise star wars rpg night > Send out fresher campaign player signups (along with Taylor, Autumn) Alaura: > Help us find the right coloured dragon for the FB banner