Flagon With The Dragon

Gaming with Librarians

// June 15th, 2010 // Library Gaming

With so much being discussed about Academics and Librarians getting into the gaming space I thought I’d try to open the door and posted the following in the LibGaming Google Group and at my local library. If this starts to get any traction I’ll be blogging about the experiences a bit and waxing philosophic about it. We’ll see where it goes.

As an avid gamer I often listen to discussions about the benefits of gaming directed by non-gaming presenters and the seeming desire to explore what can be learned from gaming at contrast with the level of participation from librarians and academics.

I thought I’d explore if there was any interest in forming an Online Gaming Guild for librarian, academics and basically anyone fitting the list on the front of [the LibGaming] Google group. The idea would be to give an environment to experience online gaming with a group of people there to explore as well, to have an opportunity to try out the activities you hear so much about and have a discussion about the skills being
learned and leveraged, community interactions and so forth while doing it.

So I wanted to check to see if there was any interest in forming an Eve Online Corporation (http://www.eveonline.com/) with the groups audience as the target audience? Eve provides a wide variety of experiences and game-play as deep as a player wants to go without insisting they get incredibly deep if they don’t want to. Having played Eve Online myself for years and been in several corporations I’m always impressed at a 20 something who runs a Player corporation and leverages advanced Sig Sigma techniques without even knowing they do.

Indeed my gaming experience and experience running or participating in various in game guilds has shaped my own management skills significantly.

Anyway is there any interest in something like this?

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