Play your way through McGill's spaces and rare and special collections!听These games open up new and interactive ways to explore the treasures in the collections. In keeping with the library鈥檚听exploration of Serious Play,听these games move听seamlessly from听historical moments, objects, and characters听to our current virtual world. Read more about the Library Game development.
Raising Spirits
A detailed, fun 鈥� and very mysterious 鈥� online orientation game.听Crafted and launched by McGill Library alongside Paul Darvasi and Gargamel Studio, the game听lets players explore McGill鈥檚 campus as well as its long history.
Put on your thinking caps, and take a leap into the unknown. This game is sure to raise spirits听鈥撎齳ours and perhaps others that have long been at rest.听
Raising Spirits: Part 2
The Pathologist awaits. Are you ready?
Explore the second half of the McGill Library Orientation game.听A mysterious corruption plagues the McGill campus, disrupting websites, scrambling resources, and warping spaces.
Find your guides and puzzle your way through 3D photospheres of familiar library spaces. Find the pathologist to help stop the poison鈥檚 spread!
Quiz That So?
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How well do you know McGill history? When did the first female astrophysicist make waves at McGill? Who was the 鈥淢an of Bronze?
Take on the Quiz That So challenge and find out those answers and more. This game explores some of the lesser-known stories in the McGill archives. Take on the trivia challenge and explore the McGill campus with the help of your guide, Max McMartlet.
See McGill through a different lens as you discover the stories of some extraordinary McGillians.
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Game Development
An interdisciplinary team of librarians, archivists, game designers, artists, and developers worked together to design and build these games. Key collaborators were Paul Darvasi, and Elisa Navarro Chinchilla of Gargamel Studio.
The first two games, Raising Spirits Part 1 and 2,听set players on a journey听across听time and听digital space in a series of multimedia puzzles听that doubly reveal and听obscure,听leading to a mystery听interwoven with McGill鈥檚听past, present, and future.听These two long-form narrative escape room听games deal听with a disruption on campus where players have to save the day and rid McGill's virtual campus of an unknown and mysterious scourge.
Quiz That So?, the third game听continues to animate the Library鈥檚 rare collections and spaces with a trivia game with a twist.听This time around, archivists, graphic designers, librarians, programmers, and students have created a colourful, 1950s-inspired, trivia game that uncovers remarkable and under-told McGill stories while taking players on a search to find seven McGill experts in spaces throughout a virtual campus.听
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