Gaming Special Interest Group Meeting at MLS
Over 40 people turned out for MLS' Gaming Special Interest Group Thursday.
Matt Gullett from Bloomington PL "crashed" the meeting.
Matt said their tournaments are 3 hours. The first hour is open play, and the competition is the remainder. Prizes have included gift certificates from Best Buy and EB Games.
Jenny will be posting information she gathered from those in attendance to the Library Success Wiki in the category Programming: Gaming creating a common resource for everybody doing gaming, or wanting to try gaming. The rest of you libraries out there doing gaming, please post your stories to the wiki to help out the ones who are just starting out!
Lots of websites were mentioned in the discussion!
The online game Second Life is offering free memberships right now. (age 18+)
ESRB Entertainment Software Rating Board is a good resource to find out if a game is rated "E" (Everyone) "T" (Teen) etc.
Game Informer has reviews, cheats and more.
Dance Dance Revolution Fan Site DDRfreak.com
Looking for good prices on dance pads? Try DDR City.
There's an online version of DDR called Flash Flash Revolution
Board Game Geek Board game discussion & trading site.
Monopoly offers a free kit to host a tournament. Website also sells replacement parts for a variety of Hasbro games.
Online games discussed were:
Runescape
NeoPets a virtual pet site popular with girls
and Kingdom of Loathing (not for kids, perhaps good for the 20-somethings or older)
Ghoulash was described as a combination of D&D and Battleship.
Create your own games with GameMaker.
Gaming In Libraries Symposium will be Dec 3-6, 2006.
Matt Gullett from Bloomington PL "crashed" the meeting.
Matt said their tournaments are 3 hours. The first hour is open play, and the competition is the remainder. Prizes have included gift certificates from Best Buy and EB Games.
Jenny will be posting information she gathered from those in attendance to the Library Success Wiki in the category Programming: Gaming creating a common resource for everybody doing gaming, or wanting to try gaming. The rest of you libraries out there doing gaming, please post your stories to the wiki to help out the ones who are just starting out!
Lots of websites were mentioned in the discussion!
The online game Second Life is offering free memberships right now. (age 18+)
ESRB Entertainment Software Rating Board is a good resource to find out if a game is rated "E" (Everyone) "T" (Teen) etc.
Game Informer has reviews, cheats and more.
Dance Dance Revolution Fan Site DDRfreak.com
Looking for good prices on dance pads? Try DDR City.
There's an online version of DDR called Flash Flash Revolution
Board Game Geek Board game discussion & trading site.
Monopoly offers a free kit to host a tournament. Website also sells replacement parts for a variety of Hasbro games.
Online games discussed were:
Runescape
NeoPets a virtual pet site popular with girls
and Kingdom of Loathing (not for kids, perhaps good for the 20-somethings or older)
Ghoulash was described as a combination of D&D and Battleship.
Create your own games with GameMaker.
Gaming In Libraries Symposium will be Dec 3-6, 2006.
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