Welcome to the online home of Game Maker Academy, the library-based program that teaches you how to make your very own video games. Game Maker Academy offers formal classroom instruction in game design through a network of public and school libraries in the north suburban Chicago area.
These pages are maintained and updated by members of the Game Design Club at the Wilmette Public Library. Visit these pages often to find out when the next series of classes will be offered near you. In the meantime, visit our gallery and check out some of the projects that our graduates have created.
Listen to a recording of the Wilmette teen panel at the ALA Gaming, Learning and Libraries Symposium >>
July 2008: Game Maker Academy received the American Library Association Presidential Citation for Gaming in Libraries (Education Category). Click here for details
September 2008: We'll be participating with the Hennepin County Library in an IMLS-funded research grant to investigate and develop best practices around public library implementation of innovative technology programs. Click here for details
This site created by Charlie Gao, Summer 2007. Redesigned by Anish Krishnan, Winter 2008.
