Meeting 3 Minutes

UB Gamers Meeting Minutes
Sept 19, 2007

Meeting held in AC 219

Meeting called to order at 5:40 pm and closed at 7:50 pm

Members in attendance: Tom Brandon, Joseph Craig, Stephen Kramer, Rob Siciliano, Calvin Green, Jay Lampkin, Michael Ziegler, Jessieca McNamara, Julia, Caleb Waggoner

Motion Summary for this meeting:

A motion to open an external account was unanimously approved.

A motion to accept the draft of ubGamers’ mission statement was unanimously approved.

A motion to adopt a Code of Conduct as the extent of membership limitations was unanimously approved.

A motion to have weekly meetings on Wednesday 5:30 – 7:30 pm was unanimously approved.

A motion to create Zombie Racers: High Speed Shambling for the PC as a Club project was unanimously approved.

The following points were discussed:

· Food for LAN parties could be funded by the Department through Kathleen

· Apply to IGDA for start-up funds

· In order to be officially recognized by UB, we MUST use our UB email accounts

· CSI gives us a website which we must populate with a mission statement, constitution and by-laws

· Our club artists will design a poster for AC 219 advertising ubGamers

· Send an email advertising ubGamers to pre-SDE students via Kathleen

· Have roundtable talks where senior students discuss SDE with the freshmen

· The club will get 2 wiis

· Reserve AC 219 during the club time each week for the duration of the semester to avoid conflicts

· College will give us some money for club paraphernalia which we can also sell

· Keep graduated club members up to date on club activities as alumni

· Get Sid Meiers in as advisor to critique student projects

· Keep networks with SDE alumni- Britt and Dominic

· Get our project critiqued by professionals in the gaming industry

· Aim to complete 1 game project in one or two semesters

· Enter club game project into IGDA student game competition

· Joanne’s design was chosen to be worked on as the club mascot for its attitude and it still needs a long neck

Discussion on Constitution and By-laws

• Member limitation- We discussed that there could be a minimum GPA required for membership of the club. Secondly, we should consider UB’s policy for student conduct and we agreed that members should follow a Code of Ethics and Conduct and could be voted out of the Club if they were disruptive or disrespectful. The voted system would require a ¾ majority.
• Levels of membership- There could be 2 levels.

1) Base-line members- Members that are there to learn but not involved in project

2) Developers- Members making the projects

• The terms of office will be for 1 year unless officers graduate at odd times

• Officerships can be amended but we are not allowed to deviate from the club’s mission statement
• President can be removed from office by majority due to dissatisfaction
• Advisors will be chosen from whichever faculty is there and willing
• A Quorum is made up of 75% of the officers and 75% of the membership. President or Vice-President must be present

Roles of Officers:

1) President- He/She is the guide and manager. Responsibilities include directing meetings, setting the path and direction of the Club. He/She has executive power to clear ambiguities. Issues will be voted upon but President will have veto power and final say.

2) Vice-President- He/She is the advisor and envoy for the President when he/she is unable to officiate. Vice-President has the same roles as the President and will try to enforce decisions and keep us on track. He/She will also have veto power and will be the go-between for President and members as well as the Student Council.

3) Treasurer- He/She will manage and seek funds for the Club. The Treasurer is responsible for keeping track of financial expenses and the monthly audits of the external bank account.

4) Secretary- He/She will take the minutes of each meeting and is responsible for posting the minutes onto the website. This is primarily a communication role and the Secretary is also responsible for editing all literature of the Club.

5) PR Officer- He/She is the conductor of all activities/functions of the Club. The PR Officer is responsible for the advertisement of the Club and will oversee the designing of all flyers.

Club Project: Zombie Racers: High Speed Shambling ideas

- Have a City of Heroes type customizer

- Game will be at least 2 and a half D, preferably 3D

- Objective of the game is to win the race

- Entire teams of riders (jockeys?) riding bunches of staggering zombies complete with zombie bridle and saddle.

- Zombies are equipped with weapons

- Using the mouse, you must maintain balance on your zombie

- If zombie takes too fast a turn, he would lean to the opposite side and you need to lean into the turns and jerk him up.

- Zombies can lose limbs. When you lose a limb, you start hopping towards someone else to steal their limbs.

- Zombies can take brains. Zombie brainhunt

- Zombies have basic stats. The lower their stats, the more docile they are.

- Conversely, they will try to eat you and other players

- Using models, zombies will lose entire limbs and not part of limbs

- Grand-prix with multiple tracks.

- As you eat body parts, you get new abilities

- Pedestrians will try to run by you and zombies will try to grab them

- The speed of the zombies must be perfect and they could have handicaps