Hi folks, hope you are all doing well, thank you for being here today. I've just got a short update on the resolutions coming from the game dev council this quarter.
Yeah, no, this will all be in the official minutes of the meeting but you know we like to get the information out to you folks ASAP. So, three agenda items for today.
First of all, and I know this is a highly-anticipated change, we're doing some adjustments to the discourse calendar. We're retiring cliffski discourse, and we're moving unpaid labor discourse to November. Our new discourse topic for March is "why does nobody hire juniors." I know, I know a lot of you are really excited for this one. We are too, we've been looking for space to get that one in there for years now, so this I think is going to be well-received.
Moving along, starting in June, you are no longer required to say "ship it" whenever someone posts a funny screenshot of a bug or glitch in Slack. Yeah the reasoning behind that one is just that, we've found that a lot of people already weren't enthusiastic about complying, and I think we wanted to increase the salience of saying "ship it" a little bit. Keep in mind that if someone posts a video of a funny bug or glitch, you are still required to say "ship it" in response.
And finally, our last agenda item for the day, this is really just housekeeping, but as you know we continuously adjust which game genres are 'in' and which are 'out' for purposes of publisher deals and marketing. Starting also in June, boomer shooters and rural life sims are now over. We are scheduling masocore platformers for a revival at that time, so please adjust your pitches and marketing cadence accordingly.
Thank you, that will be all, I will not be taking questions at this time but we will be having a Q&A session with the council next Thursday. Have a great rest of your day.
