Author: Kellian Pletcher
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A Beginner’s Guide to LARPING
Green Door Labs happily welcomes a guest post from Devin Caldwell, freelance writer and LARPing enthusiast, on how to enjoy and make the most out of your LARPing experience. A Beginners Guide to LARPing LARPing stands for “live action roleplaying.” It involves getting a group of people together to roleplay characters that act out stories and scenarios…
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Featured Game Builder Series: Libraries Edition
We interviewed Librarians Rachel A. McCaskill and Jenny Stout of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries (VCU) about experience making a game for their library on the Edventure Builder!
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Green Door Four – May Retrospective
Hello and welcome to the newest, latest, GMO-Free edition of Green Door Four! Did you miss me? We are starting something a little different with this month coming to a close. Instead of a weekly looking back, I will be doing a monthly looking back of four standout articles, links, reviews, puppy photos, etc. Please hold…
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The Mount Rushmore Junior Ranger Quest
An app-based scavenger hunt for young visitors to Mount Rushmore, created with the National Park Service
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On Drosselmeyer, Devastating Endings, and Giving Your Story to Your Audience!
WE DID IT!! Club Drosselmeyer *actually* happened, which to me is nothing short of a miracle. We started with sort of a crazy idea that 95% of people didn’t entirely understand and we ended up with a magic, immersive, interactive world with puzzles and clues and acrobats, juggling, tap dancers, swing dancing, a full band…
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Club Drosselmeyer
An immersive theater night club and Nutcracker in Swingtime! This interactive, game-based production has grown every year since 2016!
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In-Gallery Family Games for the Detroit Institute of Arts
A suite of 5 physical games built for the art carts at the Detroit Institute of Arts
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Building Non-Digital Games at the DIA: Old Lessons are New Again!
This summer I’ve been working on a series of non-digital with the Detroit Institute of Arts games for their family audiences and it’s fun to see how sometimes the concepts of good game design cross over so nicely from digital to analog games. (Sometimes they don’t- as seen in my paper game escapade at the crane…
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Niantic Labs, Ingress, Pokémon Go, and What Are All These People Doing on My Lawn?
Or: How location based gaming can make the world a better place. About three years ago, I found a postcard in the Davis Square T stop that said “Join the Resistance.” Well of course I’m going to take that card. It was the beginning stages of Ingress, a location-based game created by Google’s Niantic Labs,…
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University Librarians Talk Gaming!
2016 problems. University libraries have an unusual task in introducing library literacy to incoming freshmen, some of whom have only ever done digital research. Tasked with introducing new millennials to the world of taking out books, doing research and finding paper-based content, libraries are trying all sorts of new solutions, like games! I spoke to…