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December: Travel Sized Games

December 20, 2022 Jessica Spears Game Reviews

December often sees us going from coast to coast, trying to reconnect with far-flung family. It is also a month when a lot of Americans

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Ask the Hive Mind: Where are the Pieces?

October 17, 2022 Jessica Spears GameRT, Resources

If you’re looking to start a game collection, you probably have questions. GameRT is here to help! In this blog series, once a month we’ll

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Easy Games to Teach and Learn

December 21, 2021 Jessica Spears GameRT, Games

The GameRT Lists & Awards committee wrote up this list of library tested games for you to try out. Card Game : Super Fight  •

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IGW Around the World: AdventureX at the British Library

January 15, 2019 Darren Edwards International Games Week

This guest post is brought to you by  James Laws – editor of Redbrick Gaming. AdventureX – A Celebration of Good Games and Great People

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Accessibility and Boardgames

June 7, 2018 Darren Edwards GameRT

The 4th to 17th June is Make a Noise in Libraries Fortnight in the UK. Run by the Royal National Institute for Blind People (RNIB),

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Guest Post – The Games Research Network

October 23, 2017 Darren Edwards GameRT

Today we have a guest post from Sam Illingworth and Paul Wake about their multidisciplinary project – The Games Research Network.

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Talking Points: Play, inclusion, and community-building

September 8, 2014 phil GameRT, Initiatives, International Games Week

Welcome back folks! This is the fifth entry in our series about the importance of play. If you’re just joining us, this series starts here.

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Talking Points: Play and freedom

June 30, 2014 phil GameRT, Initiatives, International Games Week

Hello folks! This is the second in our series talking about why play is important enough to earn its place in libraries – normally this

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Talking Points: Play and innovation

June 9, 2014 phil GameRT, Initiatives, International Games Week

Hello folks! This is the first of our monthly series delving a little deeper into the importance of play, as outlined here. The points covered

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Talking points: Games and theory of mind

August 12, 2013 phil GameRT, Initiatives, International Games Week

Hello folks! This is the third of that series of more detailed talking points we mentioned. Here’s the summary from that original post: Further, games

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