Library arcade: carnegie mellon library’s project
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Max has some work to do and he needs your help. Max is ordinary student who has procrastinated his research paper until the last day but before he can get started on his paper his needs to help his fellow students and the library. Help Max organize a shelving cart of books by subject and LC call number as he races against the clock. Next Max needs to answer the reference questions of other students before he can get started on his own work, but the demands of time and deadlines force Max to “serve” as many patrons as possible. Test out your library skills and help Max complete his work.If there had to be a preview for the two mini games that the Library at Carnegie Mellon University just released through their cleverly labeled “Library Arcade” that would be it. Thank you John Fudrow for passing along the link and information about the launch of the games.Daniel Hood an Information Literacy Fellow and a small group of librarians worked with a graduate class from Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center to develop and create an information game. I talked with Daniel back at May’s LOEX conference in San Diego and just recently followed up about the progress of the game and the development process. I’ll blog about that tomorrow, but before I get into those details I want to highlight the end product. The production values of both games are great and really have that “just one more try / one more level” feel that makes casual game so enticing and addictive.There are two mini games available: “I’ll Get It”& “Within Range.”"I’ll Get It” (shown on the right) plays very much like the classic casual game Diner Dash, and that’s a good thing. You play as Max, a student helping other students answer reference questions on a variety of subjects. You “conduct” searches at a computer terminal and find a handful of results from various sources (books, articles, & websites). …
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