Games and Gaming Round Table (GAMERT)

GameRT Platinum Play - Platys seal

GameRT Announces 2025 Platinum Play Award Recipients

As a part of the International Games Month 2025 celebrations, the Games & Gaming Round Table (GameRT) of the American Library Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Platinum Play Awards. The “Platys” are awarded to games considered...

Game On! Grant

The Games and Gaming Round Table of the American Library Association is proud to sponsor its annual grant program to enable libraries to develop gaming programs or collections for their public. Through the Game On! Grant, $2000 will be available to be awarded either as one grant of $2000 or two of $1000 each to assist a library (or libraries) in developing gaming programs or collections for their communities. This year’s grant fund includes donor-provided funds! GameRT members in good standing currently employed at a public, school, academic or special library in the United States or Canada...

GameRT Platinum Play - Platys seal

Platinum Play - Platys

The Games and Gaming Round Table is very proud to announce our classic games that we recognize as Platinum Plays – evergreen titles well-suited to Library programs and collections.

image of a green ribbon. It has a meeple, die, chess piece, and game controller icon around the edges and a platypus in the center

Platinum Play Hall of Fame

Platinum Play Hall of Fame The best games for playing in libraries! (A.K.A. The Platys ) This Hall of Fame highlights games that are great for use in library collections and library programming. Only games published 2 to 10 years prior to awarding year can be added to the Hall of Fame to help libraries find new, great games they might not have seen before. Older classic games might appear in the Classics Hall of Fame. All sorts of games are eligible, including but not limited to card games, board games, video games and role-playing games. The games should include some form of rules-bound play...

GameRT Mystery Hunt

Welcome to Mystery Island! This is a game that is designed to be fun while introducing you to resources across ALA. There are riddles to solve, clues to unravel and bragging rights (and prizes!) to win. The GamerRT Mystery Hunt is a series of puzzles, similar to a scavenger hunt and a little like a virtual escape room. On the first day of the conference, we will post a link that will take you to the game. Once you’ve filled out some basic information you can read through the story and click around the various play zones. There will be three zones in total with nine total puzzle clusters to...

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