October 6, 2008 4:32pm – 5:30pm

Hicks Library

Aswin Selvaraj, Jim Vogel, Andrew Greeson

The goal of the meeting was to define the problems and possible solutions of our topic, and then assign people to the different areas.

We discussed the different parts of our memo and who would be writing each section.  We then discussed how we were going to proceed with our subject matter and decided to work towards the main issures plagueing game users from addiction to the game to lack of social life and well being.  We made the decision to divide the parts of the group as follows:

Aswin:

History and need of RPGs

Evolution of earlier forms to today’s RPGs

Types of RPGs

Jim:

Issues with the way s RPGs are being used today

                Users missing out on actual life

Issues with the development of the games

                Games are made to be drawn out for months, years…

Issues with monitoring game play

                Actively participating, but not monitoring abuse

Andrew:

Probable solutions of the addictive nature

Recommendations

For our next meeting we plan to meet Thursday, October 9, 2008at the Hicks Library at 7:30pm to mesh the work we have done individually for the memo that is due on Friday.