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Summer Game 2013 Starts June 14th! ARE YOU READY?

by eli

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?! Summer is almost here, and SUMMER GAME 2013 is just around the corner! Get ready for new badges, new items, new challenges, and NEW WAYS TO EARN POINTS to keep you moving ALL SUMMER LONG! It is the triumphant return of Ann Arbor's hottest bucket of chuckles, the AADL SUMMER GAME!

You can pick up your CLASSIC paper reading log starting Friday, June 14th at any AADL location, or print one yourself, or just play online! Complete the paper game for 1000 points and the Super Summer Reader Badge, then keep playing online, earning badges, finding codes, attending events, and using your library for MORE POINTS! Then, starting July 5th, you can spend those points in the ALMOST ENTIRELY NEW AADL SUMMER GAME SHOP, filled with amazing new items you can order and pick up at your favorite library branch.

Plus, don't miss the SUMMER GAME KICKOFF CONCERT on Sunday June 16th at Top of the Park, featuring Chicago kid-friendly rockers ICE CREAM VENDORS! Come see us at the AADL tent for a special game code, and come back the next two sundays for even more, featuring crazy activities like LIFE-SIZE CANDYLAND, JOHANN SEBASTIAN JOUST, and more, including AADL's presentation of tower-sized one-of-a-kind experience SUPERHERO at TOP June 28-30!

Then, the points JUST KEEP ON COMING with AADL events, codes, points, and challenges hidden ALL OVER TOWN and new badges dropping EVERY FRIDAY! It all starts FRIDAY JUNE 14th and wraps up on FRIDAY AUGUST 30th! Stay tuned right here to PLAY.AADL.ORG to get all the latest Summer Game news and have fun at your library ALL SUMMER LONG!

THANKS FOR PLAYING!

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Submitted by Zhengyang1022 on Mon, 06/10/2013 - 8:24am

:)

Oh yeah. You have to read several books (that bit isn't hard though), write one double entry journal and six essays. Then there is the test, which is actually two exams, one for each semester.

Submitted by Commander Taffy on Sat, 06/22/2013 - 2:56pm

Yes, it is very difficult. However, this conversation is not pertinent to this chat feed, so it should stop.

I don't think Jerry ever asked for my identity... I don't know cause I haven't read through all there comments yet... I think Jerry already knows who I am...

As soon as gxl's comments stop getting filtered away, everyone take this to the chat thread.
As for testing out, my laziness makes me only eligible to try testing out of one semester. Essays are hard....

I still find essays hard/boring. I'm also disappointed in myself, because of my laziness I'm probably only going to be able to test out of one semester..

Submitted by echternk on Thu, 06/13/2013 - 7:14am

Ok, streets quest done. I'm ready now. Can't wait to see if badge drops will be morning or evening events this year on Fridays!

echternk, we always try to get the badge drops up by 6 PM on Fridays! I can tell you that Summer Game will activate around midnight tonight, and there will be a kickoff post in the morning, but the first badge drop will be more of an evening excitement. However, for you hardcore players, I will reveal that the secret shop will not be returning this summer. We're working on some ways you can use unspent secret shop tokens, but the shop will be much more streamlined, straightforward, and LOADED WITH NEW STUFF this summer; no more stressing out near your computer at 6 PM fridays to not miss out on something special!

Stay tuned players! THE GAME IS NIGH

Submitted by ssmyth on Thu, 06/13/2013 - 11:55am

So excited! Glad to see familar names on comments - we will have FUN this year!! :-)

Submitted by cherylo on Thu, 06/13/2013 - 5:25pm

Glad to hear we will have less stressing out about being FIRST! at the secret shop.

So, @eli, say I have some badge/quest proposals...should I send such a thing to you via email, or to someone else and/or by a different method...?

Hiya CherylO! There's actually an email address for badge ideas and submissions, but let me stress *NOT* badge questions, hints or clues! =) Comment threads remain the best place to get help with badges. But if you would like to make your own badges, you can email us at badges@aadl.org with your ideas! Thanks!

Submitted by mengland on Thu, 06/13/2013 - 6:16pm

When do we need to have finished the Street Quest to get the full amount in secret shop tokens?

Submitted by smv on Fri, 06/14/2013 - 8:11am

Time travel. Again. 'Submitted by eli on Fri, 06/14/13 - 7:25pm'. It's 8:10 AM on Friday the fourteenth.

Submitted by vadnala on Fri, 06/14/2013 - 8:15am

when are the new badges coming out and where can you find the teen classic summer reading game?

@vadnala- I just printed out a teen card from the 'Get Started' page. Even though the text is for the 2012 game, the links take you to the 2013 cards. As for badges, I think they might(stress might) be coming out in the afternoon, after school ends. The early players(all 11 of us) are sort of getting a false start.

Even though I will miss the Secret Shop, thank you for relieving the stress I get when trying to be the first to the Secret Shop. Those were hardcore times...

Nice to hear that there is now an email specifically for badges. Hopefully I can make some this summer. :)

I do love manga, though I don't just pick random manga. How about some suggestions? I don't think I will make the badge too hard, since I remember when I first started and wanted some easier badges :)

Bookbird:
If you're talking about CLAMP books, I would suggest Cardcaptor Sakura or Chobits. My favorite series by them is the Magic Knight Rayearth series, though.

gxl: I like action,adventure,some mystery, whatever the people in Clamp put into their manga....
Morgsush: I have read almost of Clamp's manga. Some, like RG Veda I don't think I would have time to read. The older you grow, the less time you have...... But I will have a majority of the manga if possible. Can't reveal which ones I will put in the badge though:)

Submitted by Morgsush on Mon, 06/17/2013 - 1:51pm

Then I can't wait for your badge. :)

I'm still deciding what topics I should cover with my badges... Does anyone have suggestions?

Submitted by Morgsush on Mon, 06/17/2013 - 1:53pm

Then I can't wait for your badge. :)

I'm still deciding what topics I should cover with my badges... Does anyone have suggestions?

Edit: Double comment. :(

Yay!!!! The townie thing sounds really fun!!!!! And for KRC--morgsush, lets go!!! Yeah! I'm determined to get ALL of the codes! Last year I was off by like 6 and it was HORRIBLE! :P

Haha. I was the first on the third page for something. I don't remember though.
@bookbird: morgsush and I were crouching on the floor facing each other and kicking out legs. It's hard to explain but it was REALLY weird.

Yup. Every year. It's like for fundraising or something. We basically pay those people to run. But we get Popsicles. And we used to get watermelon. Now we don't though. :(

I am in total agreement with morgsush. Yeah! Go only childs! We should have some name for only childs. Y'know how boys who like my little pony are bronies? Something like that… but cooler.

The only problem with Pandora is that it is always trying to find new songs that you would like and most of the times (for me at least) it does not succeed. Plus I have horrible memories of people making me listen to Disney songs with its aid.

Yes Smiles, when you create an account you have an account. I bet when I bake a cake I can also happen to have the cake too. :)

I was showing this to JZ and she was cracking up. Your conversations are always interesting.

Commander Taffy: However the plus side is that it introduces you to new artist that you've never heard of but eventually like. I have discovered many of my now favorite artists with Pandora. But I agree with you about the other part. Sometimes random songs that don't even go with the radio's description just pop up.

I'm not that picky of an eater, so I would say just about anything that appeals to my taste buds. :)
Sweet, salty, smooth, crunchy, I don't really care as long as it tastes good.

I just realized how far we are straying in our commenting....
Talking about food instead of: WOW the beginning of Summer Game is Coming!
stuff... ah well. Our comments are still here so it's ok :)

@bookbird
Lol. That's funny. I would love to do that but sadly, I would get a brain freeze. :(
@zhengyang1022
Oh. I got sick of chex mix cause I literally ate it everyday when I was little. But peaches are good. I like nectarines better, though.

What exactly is a brain freeze? Is it just when your mouth gets really cold? I've actually never get brain freezes...
you ate chex mix when you were little?

Well, it's hard to describe a brain freeze but I hate gettin them. You can just eat a ton of ice cream to get one. And I ate chex mix in like third grade--ALL the time. So… yeah.

Submitted by camelsamba on Mon, 06/17/2013 - 11:21am

Love the recruitment bonus! I have a friend who was dissing the summer game last year because of some misunderstandings of what it was all about. I just crafted an email message to explain how it REALLY works - maybe the recruitment incentive will be enough to push her over the edge into trying it...

Submitted by kikipeacelove on Fri, 06/21/2013 - 10:23am

This year I really want to make it on the score board and have fun reading and doing library activities!!!! Thanks for having the summer game again this year!!!:D

Submitted by Commander Taffy on Fri, 06/21/2013 - 10:28am

The absolute latest I can be on the computer is 8:30, so I feel like I am at a serious disadvantage.

Submitted by Commander Taffy on Fri, 06/21/2013 - 10:31am

Yeah, but my earlier bedtime combined with all the camps I attend over the summer will cause me to lose my place in the top 30. Top 30 is not even all that high.

Submitted by Commander Taffy on Fri, 06/21/2013 - 10:56am

I sit at the computer in the living room and wait for my parents to leave for other activities. Well, I wait for my mom to leave at least.

Submitted by Commander Taffy on Fri, 06/21/2013 - 1:06pm

Oh, I think I saw you (Morgsush) at the library a couple days ago. You looked really busy though, so I did not bother you.

Submitted by Midnight on Thu, 07/04/2013 - 11:32am

ready!

Submitted by Bookbird on Wed, 07/17/2013 - 9:29pm

alright, Armageddon is pretty impossible right now. Give it a few decades and humans will destroy the earth in greed.

Submitted by Bookbird on Mon, 07/29/2013 - 12:46pm

Thanks!
have you realized that one of the chat threads on the first page has exactly 100 comments?

It's because of the decrease in badge points. I never realized it before, but I mainly get my points from badges/codes and commenting. At least the checkouts were no longer limited to 1000...

4 pages.
I guess I'm less enthusiastic since I have less books to star,tag,that stuff.
Commenting is still fun though. So is badges. I wonder if my badge will come out this week...

I read the manga as far as possible, and watched the anime but skipped some episodes that were in the manga that i didn't really like....
Plan on watching the drama after every 2 Case Closed episodes

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