GSL 56: Escape Room Creation

Donald and Stephanie talk about their experience building an escape room and sharing it with patrons in Pawleys Island and with librarians at the SC State Library training day.

Pictures of props
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Breakout EDU
http://www.breakoutedu.com/

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Posted on October 21, 2016 .

GSL 55: SC State Library Training Day

Donald talks about the SC State Library training day for games with Pamela, Alisha, and Katie.

Pamela Hoppock
SC State Library Learning Experiences Coordinator
Host of the Library Voices SC podcast

Alisha Polkowski
Librarian
Part owner of SCARAB Gaming Convention. 

Katie Simmons
SC State Library User Experience Designer

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Posted on October 16, 2016 .

GSL 54: RPGs with Jon Maness

Games in Schools and Libraries 54
In this episode Donald and Jon talk about what games might be suitable for introducing new players to Role Playing Games.

Jon Maness  @KoboldDude on Twitter

SCARAB Swarmcast @SCARABSwarmCast on Twitter
http://jonman.podbean.com/

SCARAB Gaming Convention January 13th - 16th 2017
http://www.s-c-a-r-a-b.com/

RPGs Discussed

  • Adventure Maximus
  • Kobolds Ate My Baby
  • Dread / Grim
  • Fiasco
  • TOON

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GSL 53: WINQ Game Design Feedback

Katheleen Mercury joins Donald to talk about classroom game design, and the WINQ game design feedback method.

Fail Faster - Extra Credits
https://youtu.be/rDjrOaoHz9s

32:38 Donald & Stephanie Review Games
Stowaway 52 from Gamewright
Escape the Room Dr. Gravely's Retreat from Think Fun Games
Backyard Builder's Treehouse Crash of Games  
Top That from Blue Orange
Gigamons from Blue Orange
Piratoons from Stronghold
Stellar conflict from Stronghold
Animals on Board from Stronghold
Bear Valley from Stronghold
999 from Chunsoft
Zero Escape from Kotaro Uchikoshi
Castle Crashers fromThe Behemoth
Realm of the Mad God from Wild Shadow Studios

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GSL 52: Pokemon Go

In this episode Donald, Stephanie, and Ian talk about the latest ARG hotness - Pokemon Go. Learn what happens at a Pokemon Gym, what being a Pokestop means, and how to lure Pokemon Trainers into your library.  

Our library is swarmed with Pokemon trainers and some of them join us on mic to let us know what they think about Pokemon Go, the new augmented reality game.  


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Posted on July 15, 2016 .

GSL 51: ALA 2016

Special segments recorded at the 2016 American Library Association Annual Conference. 

Tonya  Woldridge of Paizo on the Pathfinder Society  http://www.paizo.com
Harry Chang of Konami Digital Entertainment on the Yugioh TCG Library Demo Program http://www.yugioh-card.com/en/
Leah Culliten of Haba USA about ALA, and Haba Curriculum Support http://www.habausa.com  
David Hoyt about Giant Word Winder http://www.giantwordwinder.com 
Richie Yukiko Teen Librarian for the Broward County Library http://www.broward.org/library/
Pedro Mendoza & Steven Eckman at the ALA Play UNPUB http://unpub.net/

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Posted on July 2, 2016 and filed under ALA.

GSL 50: Family Circuit

Donald and Giles talk about a Family Game Day at school.

 

Josh West of Think Fun joins Donald to talk about Escape the Room and Circuit Maze. 

 

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Posted on June 10, 2016 .

GSL 49: Magic the Gathering


In Games In Schools and Libraries 49 Donald and Stephanie talk about acquiring cards, building decks, and learning how to play, Magic: the Gathering. 

Other related games mentioned: 
Pokémon, Yu Gi Oh, Netrunner, Dominion, Mage Wars Academy, Dominion, Magic: The Gathering – Arena of the Planeswalkers,
 

Reviews (35:00)

  • Fast Flip
  • Bring Your Own Book
  • Munchkin Marvel
  • Colt Express

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GSL 48: Legacy and Single Play Games

In this episode of Games in Schools and Libraries Stephanie and Donald discuss Legacy and One play games like Time Stories, Pandemic Legacy, Risk Legacy, and Escape the Room. 

Reviews

  • Hocus
  • Karuba
  • Evolution Flight
  • Time Stories 

Replacing Games

  • Checkers - Battlesheep, Riccochet Robots, Hey! That's my Fish!
  • Chess  - no stress chess, Mutant Meeples, HIVE, Clash of Wills, Test of Fire
  • Risk - Tiny Epic Kingdoms, Nexus Ops, Risk Legacy, Small World, Cosmic Encounter, Pandemic
  • Uno/Crazy 8's - Wonky, Parade, No thanks!


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Posted on April 27, 2016 .

GSL 46: ShushCon Recap

Donald & Stephanie talk about all of the exciting activities at ShushCon, and then they Review:

Escape the Room
Uglydoll Loonacy
Happy Salmon
Munchkin: The Nightmare Before Christmas
Lift it!

Matt Saunders from the Yellow Parable talks about starting up a board game club at the middle school in conjunction with an existing chess club
@Matt_Saunders (twitter) and matt@mowemdown.com (email)
BGG: oicu12b12

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Posted on March 31, 2016 .