The Game of Books: A Discovery Game for Libraries & Readers
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The Game of Books is an international, technology-driven gamification of reading discovery for parents, schools & libraries.
Backers: 1327
Average Pledge Per Backer: $83
Funded: $109,970 of $102,364
Dates: Oct 31st -> Dec 17th (48 days)
Project By: Aaron Stanton
Backers: 1327
Average Pledge Per Backer: $83
Funded: $109,970 of $102,364
Dates: Oct 31st -> Dec 17th (48 days)
Project By: Aaron Stanton
$109,970
current pledge level
Last Updated: December 17 @ 15:01 -0500 GMT
107%
of goal
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Latest News
Our First Set of Illustrated Community-Designed Badges 
October 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Today we get to unveil the final, fully-colored artwork for a number of the community-designed badges we've been working on. Over these last few weeks you've helped us name and illustrate more than 30 badges, everything from Arts & Smarts to The... (Read More)
Badgecraft | Batch #3 Names Voting and Suggestions
September 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Badge name voting for batch #3 is underway - please swing by and vote on your favorite designs, or even come up with your own. Badgecraft Batch #3 | Name Phase Choose badge names for the latest batch of StoryDNA topics! Head on over to the latest... (Read More)
Badgecraft | Batch #2 Design Voting
September 4th - via: kickstarter.com
Badge design voting for batch #2 is underway - please swing by and vote on your favorite designs. Hey, everyone, Sidian Jones here writing this particular update. I work with Aaron here on The Game of Books, and I've been responsible for working... (Read More)
Badgecraft | Batch #1 Design Voting
August 28th - via: kickstarter.com
I'm currently sitting in the lounge in the New York LaGuardia airport, heading home in a few minutes after an intense few days of meetings related to The Game of Books. Consequently, this will be a short note. We're currently running our first... (Read More)
Badgecrafting & The Evolution of a Badge
August 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
It's community Badgecrafting time! If you have a second, please go and vote on name and illustration ideas for a round of Game of Books badges: http://storytime.booklamp.org/2013/08/19/badgecraft-2-technology-kids/ I'm including an example... (Read More)
Badgecraft 101: Help us craft badges
August 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Welcome to the first badge creation post for The Game of Books, where we’d like your help in forging the badges players will earn. It's easy to help us craft a badge for The Game of Books. You'll find all the instructions and the ability to vote... (Read More)
Help Us Forge Game of Books Badges
July 24th - via: kickstarter.com
I have some good updates today. We're close enough with StoryDNA 2 that we can start forging our badges for The Game of Books, much as a master metal worker might craft a badge of honor. Badge Forging involves identifying a theme combination, naming... (Read More)
Introducing Mike and Tom, Former Diablo II and III Developers Now Working on The Game of Books
June 14th - via: kickstarter.com
I have great news. One of our goals since the funding of The Game of Books has been to recruit some experienced game designers with industry credit to the team. While everyone here at The Game of Books has a relatively extensive history of consuming... (Read More)
Stephen King, the Rock Bottom Remainders, and Us
May 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
I'm sitting in a Starbucks in San Jose, California on the first week of a lot of Game of Books related travel, and I have exciting news. Typically, our team works out of Boise, Idaho, but many of the publishers, authors, and companies that we work... (Read More)
Reward Cards Have Shipped!
March 21st - via: kickstarter.com
I'm pleased to announce that - as we speak - we are now shipping the Special Edition Reward Cards, our first physical Kickstarter rewards. The first few hundred cards went out yesterday, and the next round is going out tomorrow morning. For those of... (Read More)
Game of Books Raises $104,500+ on Kickstarter
December 17th - via: mediabistro.com
The Game of Books project has raised more than $104,500 on Kickstarter, funding a new way to keep track of how many books you have read.
The website will log how many books you have read, giving readers badges for reading books with unique combinations of themes. Players will also receive experience points for individual books, rewarded for reading within specific themes like vampires or military novels (Read More)
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