Welcome to Games at Lewis Library
Games are not just fun.
Games are educational. They can be tools of learning, a way of training your mind: to think; to think logically; and to accept and deal with new issues and scenarios.
Games are social. They can start conversations; help people relate on many levels, and build alliances.
Games are profitable. For those who code and create games, there are jobs available: marketing, writers, game designers, computer coders, etc.
Games are therapeutic. They can help us decompress and relieve anxiety.
. . .and games are so much more.
Games available at Lewis Library (for 3 day loan)
- Bananagrams (copy 1) An anagram game where letters are rearranged to my new words in differenct crossword formations. 144 letter tiles, 1 zip lock bag for tiles, instructions, and yellow banana-shaped bag. Players: 1 to 8. Playing time: varies
Non-Fiction
Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers by Call Number: Online access & Cudahy Library Main Stacks P96 .A83 J46 2006ISBN: 9780814742846Publication Date: 2006Bringing together the highlights of a decade and a half of groundbreaking research into the cultural life of media consumers, Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers takes readers from Jenkins's progressive early work defending fan culture against those who would marginalize or stigmatize it.
Games Girls Play by Call Number: Lewis Library Main Stacks HQ784.V53 C86 2018ISBN: 9781498554565Publication Date: 2018This book examines different contexts in which discourses of girls and video games occur, including girl-oriented video games, activist efforts to change the video game industry, and informal education programs that teach girls video game design.
My Life as a Night Elf Priest by Call Number: Lewis Library GV1469.25 .W64 N37 2010 and Online accessISBN: 0472050982Publication Date: 2010In this book, Bonnie Nardi, a well-known ethnographer who has published extensively on how theories of what we do intersect with how we adopt and use technology, compiles more than three years of participatory research in Warcraft play and culture in the United States and China into this field study of player behavior and activity. She educates us on issues of gender, culture, and addiction as part of the play experience.
Fiction
Firewall by Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection PZ7.R617 Fir 2017ISBN: 9781459814530Publication Date: 2017Josh is a gamer. After his parents' divorce and his move from Chicago to a small town where he doesn't know anybody, he copes by staying up way too late playing Killswitch online. Then he discovers a "mod" version of the game that is an exact reproduction of his new town. Strange things start to happen in the game, and they are somehow connected with events in the real world.
Ready Player One by Call Number: Cudahy Library Main Stacks PS3603.L548 R43 2015ISBN: 9780307887443Publication Date: 2012In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines—puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.
