Library Arcade from Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

Donna Beck Rachel Callison John Fudrow Dan Hood Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

"..don't use force in training the children in the subjects, but rather games.” Plato, The Republic (421 BCE)

Project Overview Why Games Demo & Questions

Why Games?

Public Libraries

Marketing

Academic Libraries

Teaching

2 Distinct Uses

Everyone’s a Gamer Average Game Player Age is: 33 25% -- 50+ yrs. 44% -- 18-49 yrs. 31% -- under 18 yrs From Entertainment Software Assocation , 2007.

Why ( not ) Edu-gaming ?

Cons

Integration

Traditional assessment is boring

Development tools

The "Lame Factor“

Pros

Learning = Fun?!

No consequence for failure

Master skills in demand by today’s employers

Games offer attributes important for learning

Other Library Gaming Projects

University of Calgary

Hardplay (Future)

Arizona State

Quarantined (2005)

UNC Greensboro

The Information Literacy Game (2004)

Gaming & Culture

History

Progress

New Audiences

As Easy as Pong

World of Information

Virtually Physical

Image used without permission from IGN.com http://wiimedia.ign.com/wii/image/article/795/795126/big-brain-academy-wii-degree-20070608011557637.jpg

Mental Health

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Arcade @ Home

What About the Web?

March 2006 to Present Project Timeline [Phase 1] Decide to make games/team forms (March 2006 ~ August 2006) [Phase 2] Design and Production of Games (September 2006 ~ February 2007) [Phase 3] Testing and Marketing Begins (March 2007 ~ August 2007)

Our Sites Library Arcade @ www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/etc

Play the games

Learn about the developers

Take the survey

Planning Blog cmlibrarygaming.wordpress.com/

Find references on gaming

See the survey results

Share your research on gaming

References

Game Player Data- Fact Sheet, Entertainment Software Association, http://www.theesa.com/facts/gamer_data.php (Accessed November 5, 2007).

UNC Greensboro, The Information Literacy Game (2004).

Arizona State, Quarantined (2005).

University of Calgary, Hardplay (2007).

Pong Screenshot, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Pong.png , (2007).

Pokemon Trading Card image taken from Ebay sale reference, http://mollybol.50megs.com/Mollyweb/Book/Diary%20Pics/pokthur.JPG , (2007).

Big Brain Academy Screenshot, IGN.com, http://wiimedia.ign.com/wii/image/article/795/795126/big-brain-academy-wii-degree-20070608011557637.jpg , (Accessed 11/05/2007).