Unigames Committee Meeting #18 - 01/07/2021

Attending

• Alistair
• Emerald
• Jackie
• Gwen
• Vikrum
• Ethan
• Amber
• Chris
• Nina
• Texas

Apologies

Meeting scheduled: 2:00pm

Meeting open: 2:05pm

Reports:

President's Report (Alistair):

• gotta love missing a week of work from panto then another week from lockdown
• i am beset by covetous urges
  • magic cards and steam sales
• Have been contacting people about delayed early bird, and also subsidised tickets

Vice-President's Report (Emerald):

• oh irresponsible covid carriers my beloathed
• i miss the room i need to get my camp ticket
• Res Evil 8 review: it's a really OK game that gets worse the further in you play it. not worth $100 for the big lady. Just play LoU2. (i'm replaying LoU2 to feel better about RE8)
• We should talk about ikea plan.
• if you're reading these minutes you're a star, have a safe lockdown and talk to someone you love! (i called my mum :33)

Treasurer's Report (Jackie):

• i have my RSA i kept my word
• working on camp budget for the food stuff
• idk i've just been at home stressing and playing too much hades
• u know that one textpost that's like "for every hour of sleep u lose, you need to sleep an extra 3 hours" or something and the reply is "just put me in a coma at this point"
• yea thats me
• account balance: $7,543.91

Secretary's Report (Gwen):

• Happy lockdown :)
• Pinch and a punch, first day of the month... no returns
• Newsletter will go out on Tuesday
• Stay Safe!

Librarian's Report (Vikrum):

• Sure... been doing things
• Firefly RPG handed in and not a moment too soon for no one to touch it d:)
• Classification system almost done
  • Just need to think about theme
• No one is allowed to ask about Fog of Love or you will be blocked
  • Elizabeth has been blocked

Fresher Rep's Report (Ethan):

• Please be patient, we are experiencing technical difficulties
• Ethan sick :(
• Lockdwon cries
• Highlight of my week - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZhWA6F5LLE
• New expansion for my second favoruite card game
  • I guess Tieflings are in Magic now

Reports de la OCM (Amber, Chris, Nina, Texas):

• Amber:

  • In productive news:
    • I emailed Tactics for Quiz Night prizes.
  • In less productive news:
    • Lockdown... AAAHHH AAAHHH AAAHHH!
    • Screaming.
    • Body in panic shut down mode.

• Chris:

  • lockdown (sad face)
  • schedule? what's a sleep?
  • people do be signing up for relay now
    • "It's pretty fun actually" - Chris 2021
  • It's Bidoof day!

• Nina:

  • oh god what to even write honestly...
  • like everyone else, its been A Week for me
  • i'm just glad im a fully vaccinated hottie...
  • plz stay safe, take care of yourselves <3
  • Mind...is... fog... of love?

• Texas:

  • drafted a report so many times BC of the roller coaster my week has been. still not happy with it but oh well
  • probably the only one not sad we are in lockdown ://
  • it's day 3 in isolation and I miss everyone already..
  • very bored
  • spent a long time staring at my screen in complete awe bc homestuck
  • 1 dragon (hooray)
    • She's not being held gently like a hamburger... but she's comfortable

Past action Items:

Alistair:

Pay for camp - done

Make post about earlybird for camp - done

Email first aid people - done (no response)

Bother Jameson about best club award - not done

Busy Bee post and event - done

Long term borrowing regs - not done

Gwen:

Make changes to agm minutes and website - done

Ethan:

Discord event for painting day - done (but F)

Amber:

Email Tactics about quiz night prizes - done

Chris:

Relay for Life Facebook event and Discord post - done

Gatekeepers

• no updates

Webkeepers

• no updates

Usual Suspects

Board Games

• We don't need to worry about another board game event till after camp

RPGs

• Numenera One-Shot [Possibly 6/7/21 Tuesday]
  • Was supposed to be 29/6/21 but lockdown
  • We cancelled it, and then it was forceably cancelled
  • We'll try for Tuesday next week (GM dependent)

Amber: Email Guild about Numenara EMP Amber: Talk to Numenera GMs

Magic: The Gavining

• Alistair returned all of the pre-release stuff
  • Alistair had a period of time of $0 in his account waiting on $2000 from Unigames
• Adventures in Forgotten Realms prerelease [Sunday 25/7/21]
  • Will have it the week after camp hopefully

Alistair: Email Tactics about delaying Pre-release

Wargames

• Painting Day [02/07/21 Friday 1pm]
  • F
  • Will be delayed to next week (hopefully), dependent on lockdown things

Ethan: Painting Day things

Fresher Campaigns

• no updates

Events:

Unigames Camp: Humans & Humans (Variant) [Friday 16/7/21 - Monday 19/7/21]:

• It's in 2 weeks!
  • AHHH
• Looks like we won't be able to get in a first aid course before camp
  • F
  • Good luck to the 3 people with First Aid
• Quiz needs to be written
• A few people have contacted Alistair about subsidised ticket, there is still a little money left in the pool
  • In general people pay a portion and then get subsidised the rest
• With there being no access to the clubroom this week, those who were intending to get an earlybird ticket this week can send Alistair a message before tomorrow to get the ticket
• Everyone's camp responsibilities are relayed in Meeting #7 Minutes
  • Chris will also help Vikrum with debates
• We need cooking and dishes rosters for camp
  • Don't put quiz night people on Saturday night dishes

Alistair, Jackie, Ethan, Texas: Write the Camp Quiz Alistair: Earlybird and subsidised tickets post Chris, Vikrum, Nina: Food safety Alistair: Help Vikrum and Chris with debate topics Vikrum, Chris: Debates Jackie: Start cooking/dishes rosters

Quiz Night [Probably Friday 20/8 or 27/8]:

• 20/8 is booked
• Liam will propose 27/8, we're also happy with Thursdays

UWASCA collab:

• We have a Whenisgood, that's kind of it

Nina: Poke UWASCA Collab people

Roleplay for Life [Probably Sat 18/9 - Sun 19/9]

• Emerald and Texas will run it
• Start thinking about it

Relay for Life [Sat 02/10 - Sun 03/10]

• Earlybird has ended
• You can still join the team!
• Please join the team!
• We have 8 signups currently
• bit.ly/Unigains21

Cameron Hall-o-ween @ 77 Social [Thursday 21/10/21]

• Alistair will poke about Hall-o-ween after Quiz Night stuff has been sorted out

Collab [REDACTED] 2021 [19/11/21 - 22/11/21]:

• Still waiting on EMP approval

Reimbursements:

Done:

• $513.40 to Alistair for book buy
• $780 to Alistair for MH2 Prerelease
• $1000 to Alistair for Manjedal

Guild:

• Semester grants

  • Haven't come in yet

• Best Club award

  • F

Alistair: Bother Jameson about Best Club Award

General Business:

Room Update

• Tables

• IKEA Run

  • Cupboard and Coffee Table
  • Texas car is big, but Texas in lockdown :(
  • Emerald thinks she could squeeze everything into her car
  • Gwen and Emerald will do IKEA run next week
    • Because strong
    • Sorry Jackie
    • But Gwen and Emerald aren't allowed to have fun

Library

• Classification system is pretty much done
  • The dream: Genres of tabletop games that make it easy to see what the game is about
    • e.g. Capturing (like chess), Attrition (like Checkers), Area Influence (Pandemic), Efficiency Engine (Dominion, Roll for the Galaxy) etc.
    • Purpose of genres to help find types of games people want to play
    • Games can come under multiple genres
    • But also, things like "deck builder" and "worker placement" are very common and understandable
  • Vikrum will upload a document detailing the work he's done on the classification system

Webkeeping

• Newsletter will go out on Tuesday

Regulations

Alistair: Long term borrowing regs

Westmarch Campaign

• no updates

Meeting closed: 3:14pm