10.10.08

Episode 7 – October 2008

Posted in Uncategorized at 8:00 pm by snicholson

This episode of the Games in Libraries podcast is “Gaming Programs 101″.  With the upcoming National Gaming Day @ Your Library, we wanted to help those of you wanting to run a gaming program.

You can listen to this episode at

the Internet Archive

or in other formats at
http://www.archive.org/details/GamesInLibrariesPodcastOctober2008

General information about the Nov. 15th event can be found at
http://www.ilovelibraries.org/gaming/

and more detailed information is at

http://gaming.ala.org/resources/index.php?title=Ngd2008

Want to run a video game tournament?  Visit

http://wiki.gtsystem.org/ngdinfo

There’s a BoardGameGeek List of games to consider for your boardgame needs at

http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/35330

Here are resources for Game Creation programs:

Sims Carnival(www.simscarnival.com)
Spore Creature Creator (www.spore.com)
Ben 10 Alien Force(www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/ben10af/)
Scratch(http://scratch.mit.edu)
Alice(www.alice.org)
GameMaker(www.yoyogames.com)
Adrift(www.adrift.org.uk)
Drawn to Life(www.drawntolife.com.au)
Adventure Maker(www.adventuremaker.com)
RPG Maker(http://tkool.jp/products/rpgxp/eng/)

Check back as NGD approaches for links to instructional videos and assessment tools!