Papers and Reports

Quality of Life

• Quality of Life Summit Report and Proceedings (253kb - pdf)
• Open Letter: Quality of Life Issues are Holding Back the Game Industry
• Quality of Life White Paper
• "Quality of Life: The Next Step" GDC roundtable report (28kb - pdf)

Credit Standards

• IGDA Game Crediting Guide Draft 8.5 (pdf - 121kb)
• Game Industry Crediting: A Snapshot of the Present (pdf - 130kb)

Business & Legal Issues

• Governmental Support Listing
• Developer Business Summit Report and Proceedings (210kb - pdf)
• Contract Walk-Through V-3
• Contract Walk-Through V-2
• Contract Walk-Through V-1
• Intellectual Property Rights White Paper
• Game Submission Guide
• Best Practice Reports
  • Finance Best Practices (140kb pdf)
  • HR Best Practices (17kb pdf)
  • Marketing and Promotion Best Practices (175kb pdf)
  • Quality Assurance and Testing Best Practices (165kb pdf)
  • Resource Management and Scheduling Best Practices (150kb pdf)

Anti-Censorship

• IGDA Amicus Brief - IDSA vs. St. Louis County (85kb - pdf)
• IGDA Reply to Washington's Opposition to Motion for Preliminary Injunction (3mb - pdf)
• IGDA opposition letter to Leland Yee (pdf)

Diversity

• Roundtable Report: Diversity: The Invisible Hurdle (pdf - 16kb)
• Game Developer Demographics: An Exploration of Workforce Diversity (pdf - 306kb)

Student/Academic Relations

• Curriculum Framework
• GDC Student Scholarship Reports
• Academic Event Reports and Materials

• New Members Welcome Packet (pdf)
• Lifetime Members

Chapters

• Chapter Reference Manual
  
• Chapter Chartering Documents

Events

• Event/trip reports
• IGDA @ GDC 2010

Special Interest Groups

• Updated SIG Reference Manual (172kb - pdf)

• Artificial Intelligence
  • 2005 Report of the Artificial Intelligence Interface Standards Committee
  • 2004 Report of the Artificial Intelligence Interface Standards Committee
  • 2003 Report of the Artificial Intelligence Interface Standards Committee
  • AI Interface Standards: Open Beta GDC04 Report
  • AI Interface Standards: The Road Ahead GDC03 Report
  • Toward Standardization of AI Interfaces GDC02 Report

• Casual Games
  • Casual Games Quarterly
  • 2008 Casual Games White Paper (pdf)
  • 2006 Casual Games White Paper (2.2mb - pdf)
  • 2005 Casual Games White Paper (2.1mb - pdf)
• Game Accessibility
  • "Accessibility in Games: Motivations and Approaches" White Paper (310kb - pdf)
• Human Resources
  • Human Resource Forum: Trends & Directions Proceedings Report (180kb - pdf)
  • HR Benchmarking Report (212kb - pdf)
  • HR Best Practices Report (170kb - pdf)
• Mobile Games
  • 2005 Mobile Games White Paper (844kb - pdf)

• Online Games
  • 2004 Web & Downloadable Games White Paper (2mb - pdf)
  • 2003 Online Games White Paper (950kb - pdf)
  • 2002 Online Games White Paper (330kb - pdf)
• Quality Assurance
  • QA Best Practices Report (166kb - pdf)
• Writing
  • Guide to Game Writing
• Flash
  • Flash SIG holds first elections

IGDA Annual Reports

• IGDA 2011 Annual Report (149 kb - pdf)
• IGDA 2010 Annual Report
• IGDA 2008 Annual Report
• IGDA 2007 Annual Report
• IGDA 2006 Annual Report
• IGDA 2005 Annual Report
• IGDA 2004 Annual Report (432kb pdf)
• IGDA 2003 Annual Report (~1mb - pdf)
• IGDA 2002 Annual Report (~2mb - pdf)
• IGDA 2001 Annual Report (~7mb - pdf)