Educational Library Games
The projects on this page were created as part of a 2024 workshop sponsored by the Orbis Cascade Alliance's John Helmer Professional Awards.
Each project contains the materials necessary to create and run either a physical escape room, a virtual escape room, or a web-based text game designed to teach about some aspect of using or running a library.
- Title
- 1960s Spy Escape Room
- Creator
- Cassandra Palmore
- Date
- 2025-06-15
- Type
- Text
- Image; StillImage
- Language
- eng
- Keywords
- escape room
- library
- Description
- These documents describe how to set up a 1960s spy-themed escape room to teach library student workers about library operations.
- Identifier
- LibraryGames1
- License
- This item is released under a CC-BY-NC 4.0 license. You are free to share and adapt the materials it contains, however you must give appropriate credit and indicate what changes were made, and you may not use the materials for commercial purposes.
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
- Item sets
- Library Educational Games
- Title
- Trapped in the Fifth Century
- Creator
- Seyed Abdullah Shahrokni
- Date
- 2025-06-15
- Type
- HTML
- Language
- eng
- Keywords
- escape room
- literature
- Description
- This text game is a Twine adaptation of a physical escape room focusing on the legend of King Arthur. Can you save President Reese and return him to the 21st century? The ZIP file contains the HTML file and TWEE files needed to play the game locally or modify it using Twine. To play the game online for free, visit https://shahrokni.itch.io/trapped-in-the-5th-century
- Identifier
- LibraryGames2
- License
- This item is released under a CC-BY 4.0 license. You are free to share and adapt the materials it contains, even commercially, however you must give appropriate credit and indicate what changes were made.
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Title
- Library Hero
- Creator
- Stewart Baker
- Date
- 2025-06-15
- Type
- HTML
- Language
- eng
- Keywords
- libraries
- text games
- Description
- This text game is a super-hero themed Twine game designed to familiarize players with using the Library of Congress call number system to look up and locate a book. The attached ZIP file contains the HTML and TWEE files needed to play the game locally and modify it. It can be played online for free at https://infomancy.net/Library_Hero.html
- Identifier
- LibraryGames3
- License
- This item is released under a CC-BY 4.0 license. You are free to share and adapt the materials it contains, even commercially, however you must give appropriate credit and indicate what changes were made.
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Title
- Online Library Escape Room
- Creator
- Catherine Davenport
- Date
- 2025-06-15
- Type
- Text
- Image; StillImage
- Language
- eng
- Keywords
- libraries
- escape rooms
- Description
- This Google-form based online escape room introduces students to the online services offered by a university library.
- Identifier
- LibraryGames4
- License
- This item is released under a CC-BY-NC 4.0 license. You are free to share and adapt the materials it contains, however you must give appropriate credit and indicate what changes were made, and you may not use the materials for commercial purposes.
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
