I want to take a quick moment to comment on the @IGDASA launch on Wednesday and why it left me feeling a little uneasy. I don't want to criticise IGDASA directly, I'm incredibly excited to see it happening and I think it's a really important development for the adelaide gamedev community but the event on Wednesday made me feel like something was a little off. During a conversation on twitter earlier today the point was made about the importance of diverse definitions of success within developer communities in order for them to remain open, accessible and diverse and I think that's the thing that I feel was missing from Wednesday's event. The whole evening I felt like there was this weird assumption that commercial success was the most important kind of success and that we were all there to help each other achieve that particular form of success. During the speeches I felt like more time and energy was spent talking about the industry, customers and games as products than about the community, audiences and games as connection between human beings. I understand that IGDA is a professional organisation, for people who want to earn their living in games, which requires some focus on the business side of things, but the problem is that Adelaide is a little town, and the name IGDA has a lot of weight behind it and intentional or not, simply by existing IGDASA puts a flag down and says "this is the center of the gamedev community now." The problem is that our existent vibrant, diverse, creative gamedev community currently thrives partly because of the varied definitions of success shared amongst it's members and if IGDASA is only championing one of those definitions then the others risk being left behind. I'm not saying that IGDASA are necessarily doing that but as a person who holds a differing definition of success, Wednesday's event made me feel like I was on the outside, less serious and potentially dead weight to be left behind. I'm going to register as a member of IGDASA. I run a (so far unsuccessful) business and the opportunities available through that network are hugely valuable but also because IF the local chapter of the big name association that acts as our representative to government is going to be an increasingly important part of our community I feel it's my responsibility to be an active part of these discussions as a voice letting people know that there is more than one definition of success in games, just ask <a href="http://www.polygon.com/2016/7/21/12235452/how-we-made-the-best-game-ever">Jason Stark</a>.