International Games Week 2017

[Darren Edwards]

International Games Day @ your library has now expanded to become International Games Week which will be running from 29th October to 4th November.

Registration will open in June and is open to libraries of all types.

The old International Games Day blog has gone and now redirects to the much more user friendly new ALA Games website http://games.ala.org/

This new site will become a one stop shop for information on games and gaming in libraries.

I'm working on increasing visibility of IGW in the UK and also increasing the support and benefits for libraries who want to take part here.

Any suggestions of things that can be done to make this initiative more attractive to UK libraries would be welcome.

 

Also if anyone fancies joining the very informal UK IGW subcommittee (no specific time commitment required) let me know. I'm particularly interested in anyone in academic or specialist roles, our current team is very public library focussed.

[Darren Edwards]

Registrations for this year's International Games Week are now open http://games.ala.org/international-games-week-2017-registration-is-open/

There will be some UK specific games donations available this year which will be announced shortly on games.ala.org blog.

[Darren Edwards]

The first UK sponsorships for International Games Week have now been announced. These are Chess in Schools and Communities, BoxHead Craft and Club Minecraft

CSC are providing free chess sets for up to 50 publicly funded libraries and support for setting up your own library chess club.
BoxHead Craft are donating packs of Boxhead to 25 libraries and Club Minecraft are hosting the UK libraries Minecraft championship.

[Gary Green]

Hi all,

I'm interested in what everyone has planned for International Games Week?

In Surrey we're running a few Minecraft sessions with added craft activities. We've also got a couple of board and table top events. Plus a talk about game design with Catherine Woolley from Media Molecule (Little Big Planet, Tearaway). Finally, I'm running a digital game making afternoon for adults using some of our fun makerspace kit, including Makey Makey, Ozobots & Little bits.

[Darren Edwards]

At Bournemouth we are running a interactive fiction jam themed around the history of Bournemouth & a stay and play session next Saturday. On the following Saturday we have a minecraft and crafts session and have invited 3 tabletop games designers in to demo and playtest their new games. Some of our others branches are branding existing activities e.g. Bingo, Chess, Scrabble but aren't running anything extra.