A society for gamers?

[Jack Constantine]

Basically, I know there are a bunch of us here at St. Andrews, and I feel like it would be a good idea to form a society. We can do a sort of games collective between us (if your done with a game, loan it to someone else), and possibly use Union funding (if we get 20 or more people) to buy more games. Also, as a uni society I feel like we might have more clout for petitioning for opening ports on ResNet for online games, and might even be able to get dedicated servers on the uni servers for more popular games.
The society would be open to anyone interested in video games, regardless of genre or platform.
Thoughts?


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[Mr Comedy]

I think that the university would give very little attention to gamers, as this is hardly work related activity. And with regards to gaming, there has never been anything to topple the mighty SNES, and the associated multitap.
In fact, I am going to play some SNES right now. Mario Kart, anyone?

[Plette]

[s]Mr Comedy wrote on 21:31, 24th Mar 2004:
I think that the university would give very little attention to gamers, as this is hardly work related activity.

There are plenty of other societies that have nothing to do with work. Tunnock's Caramel Wafer Appreciation Society? The Real Ale Society? Surely if they get the university seal of approval, anything can. I'm not saying these are bad societies - quite the opposite, I think it goes to show that some of the most enjoyable societies have nothing to do with work.

I think there already is a gamer's society of some kind though...I think it focuses mostly on RPGs. Might want to look into that.

[David Bean]

What about WiredSoc?

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[RichZ]

[s]Mr Comedy wrote on 21:31, 24th Mar 2004:
I think that the university would give very little attention to gamers, as this is hardly work related activity.


This is true, the university would endorse a gaming society, but this is to do with the Union, not the Uni. I think it'd be good, we tried to have a gaming day, but not many people turned up, but if we just had a PS2 or something - easy to link to screen in V1, and we could have cool sound, even surround sound if game supports it though I doubt any do, but still..., or Salad bowl (have bought adapter box now), so yeah - why not. Should have time to affiliate before end of the semester. Ask Bonnie, she should still be able to sort it out, even though she's not Societies Officer anymore.

Affiliation form here: http://www.yourunion.net/system/systemp ... 002-03.pub

[surfingsimon]

i think its a good idea - one that friends and i have previously discussed and one which could be taken further.

[Jack Constantine]

[s]David Bean wrote on 22:38, 24th Mar 2004:
What about WiredSoc?

I was thinking something much more specific than WiredSoc (which handles everything computer related), but more general than WarSoc (the society geared only towards RPGs). Specfically, that we could do with a much more general gaming group had intrests in all genres, and all platforms, right from the Atari up to Xbox (or even GameCube, if anyone actually owns one).
The link provided above is an MS Publisher file, which I can't open. Does anyone know what hoops we would have to jump through to get affiliation?

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[munchingfoo]

I'd join that, Id prob like to be an active memeber too.

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[munchingfoo]

Yeah me 2 prob. Might go for the occasional RTS but not often to boring.

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[David Bean]

Does WarSoc even do CRPGs? I thought they were more into things like Magic and Warhammer.

On the other question, though, the best person to speak to is Bonnie - though Louise Halman will take over from her after Easter. You'll need to convince them primarily that your society will offer a service not covered by anything else, which is why I brought up WiredSoc (which might be construed to overlap since they sometimes run gaming events). If that's okay, all you need to do is to fill out an affiliation form (available from the General Office), get some members, write a constitution, form a committee (now to comprise a maximum of only a President, Secretary and Treasurer, though you're free to have others), and set up a bank account. On the form you'll have to predict your costs for the year, which will mean coming up with a preliminary schedule of events, and how much you expect them to cost (taking fees, sponsorship etc. into account). You'll also have the opportunity to apply for discretionary grants from the Societies' Committee later, if you encounter costs you hadn't anticipated.

Best of luck!

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[Mr Comedy]

The real problem will come with ITS, who are not going to appreciate people wanting to play games on the university bandwidth.

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[NeilSJFC1884]

True, the university stress that people on the network are not allow to act as servers for games or any other sort of software. Talking of which.........how about a champoinship manager society? Theres definantly enough fans of the game to do it and think about it, we would be able to empty any pub with stories of Aberdeen's european runs and Mad Torry's hat-tricks for W.B.A.....

[Bonnie]

Pop along to the General Office on the middle floor of the Union and ask for an affiliation form and societies handbook. Everything you will ever need to know is written there.

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[rubbermuffin]

Ooh, a 16 person game of champ manager would go down a treat! I think it would be pretty sweet to have a Gaming society that could purchase consoles for society use, at prescribed times in the week.
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[iohannes]

I'd really like to see a NWN guild set up in the uni. But no point since the ports are now closed. Oh for those halcyon days when they were left open on ResNet

[Guest]

It's a good idea. We should hold some competitons on playing or modding of some sort too.