Game Manufacturers Association Board of Directors Meeting Agenda 2020-01-21 @ 4:00 PM Eastern Time Zoom Video Conference

Call to Order

Appoint At-Large Board Member

Set GAMA Expo Board Schedule a. Board/GRD breakfast – TBD b. Closed Board meeting – TBD c. Open Board meeting – Thursday March 12, 2020 5pm to 6pm d. Board Q&A Table outside Tuscany Ballroom – TBD

Future Board Meeting Schedule Review / Rescheduling

Committee Reports (December) Attached to 2019-12-17 Board meeting agenda.

Committee Reports (January) See attached.

Communications to the Board (December) Attached to 2019-12-17 Board meeting agenda.

Communications to the Board (January) See attached.

Bylaws Revisions

Insurance Review

New York Legislation Query from Mindy Baker (The Toy Association) re: New York S. 501B legislation:

Page 1 of 5 • Do you think GAMA would be willing to send a letter urging the Gov to veto? • Would it be alright if I posted something about this on the GAMA Facebook page? Background: https://tinyurl.com/u8nrqp3

Clarify the Legal and/or Organizational Status of the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design and Hall of Fame

Devois / Golden Bell Board Game Case https://tinyurl.com/vo4zpcs

Proposed Vision Revision (Previously Tabled)

Board Member Agreement (Previously Tabled)

GAMA Environmental Seal (Previously Tabled)

Approve Meeting Minutes and Adjourn

Page 2 of 5 Committee Reports Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design: The AAGA Hall of Fame will be inducting Wolfgang Kramer and Reinhold Wittig (bios below) this year. Given the age and health of these two German designers they will not be able to travel to Columbus. Mike Elliott is coordinating recording acceptance videos during the Nuremburg Toy Fair which will be shown during the awards ceremony. In addition, Wolfgang Warsch an Austrian designer who created the Mind, which was nominated for SDJ, and Quacks of Quedlinberg, which won the Kennerspiel SDJ award (basically best light game) in 2018 will be recognized as this year’s Rising Star. He has been invited to attend the Origins Award Ceremony. Last the Hall will be inducting two products, Boardgamegeek.com (Scott Alden will accept) and the board game Yahtzee (1956), as the grandfather of Roll and Write games and Roll and Reroll games. Mike has reached out to a contact at Hasbro to accept. • Wolfgang Kramer Wolfgang Is a German based board game designer who has been designing since 1974. He has designed well over 150 games and has won the Spiel Des Jahres 4 times for games such as Tikal, El Grande, and Linko most recently in 2014). He has another dozen nominations over the years. Wolfgang is credited with the concept of putting the scoring track along the edge of the board, which first appeared in his 1984 game Heimlich and Co and is now used in hundreds of games. El Grande, which he published in 1995, has held a spot in the BGG top 100 in an era when most pre-2005 games have dropped out. He was also instrumental in developing the action point system for games. There are well over 10 million copies of his games in print. He was a founding member of the German Game Authors Guild, which actively helped to promote the interests of game authors. • Reinhold Wittig Reinhold is a German game designer who has published over 120 games. In the 1970s, he produced many of them in a style that would be equivalent to modern print and play games. While he has won several minor awards and has numerous nominations, Reinhold is known in the industry for aggressively advancing the rights of designers. In 1988 at Nuremberg Toy Fair he convinced a group of 13 game designers to sign a coaster, known as the “Beer Coaster Proclamation” stating that none of them would give games to publishers unless the publisher agreed to put the designers name on the box cover. Signatures included Wolfgang Kramer and many prominent designers of the era. It was noticed at the show and very shortly after almost all European publishers started giving box credit for designers. Reinhold founded and ran a game designer gathering since 1984 called the Göttinger Spieleautorentreffen – Gottinger Game Designers Meeting, which has around 250 game designer and publisher attendees and is similar in many ways to Alan Moon’s Gathering of Friends event. In 2017, after running it for 33 years, he handed off the reins to the Game Authors Guild, of which he was a founding member.

Page 3 of 5 Advocacy Committee: On Wednesday January 8 at the request of Mindy Baker of the Toy Association, GAMA wrote a letter to New York Governor Cuomo urging him to veto S. 501B as it creates an overly broad chemical disclosure program for children’s products and bans products containing chemicals arbitrarily selected as “dangerous.” The bill was sent to the Governor on December 30. He has until February 7 to sign or veto the legislation. Audit Committee: We received access to the data we needed to complete the revenue testing, which was the last piece of the audit. The Chair will be reaching out to the auditor to find out when the audit will be complete and report that date at the board meeting. Education Advocacy Committee: Nothing to report (meeting coming next week). Grievance Committee: Nothing to report. GAMA Trade Show Site Committee: Nothing to report.

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