LoG Members

Current LoG Members

	Kaillif Ammen
	Kaillif has been playing video games for as long as he can remember. He was one of the three original co-founders of Library of Games back in the winter of 2009. He has had a Steam account for 5 years and an XBox Live account for 6. He has been writing about video games since late ’07 and will hopefully be gaming until is physically impossible to do so. Kaillif is a senior at Jones College Prep.
	Twitter: @gloqwi | Steam ID: Gloqwi | Gamertag: Gloqwi
	Derrick Black
	Derrick is a senior at South Shore International College Prep. He is a Sonic fan boy and ourresident expert on superhero and fighting games. He has the strange ability to play almost any game that comes and out and to actually finish even the most terrible games.
	Gamertag: BlackFrost27
	Matthew Byrd
	Matthew is a senior at Jones College Prep. Matthew created the Byrd’s Nest editorial blog and podcast feature. He regularly writes about Movies, Politics, Sports, and Video Games at his blog byrdsplace.tumblr.com and records podcasts for libraryofgames.org and does a film podcast called ”The Final Cut Film Podcast” with fellow LoGer Taylor Bayless.
	Twitter: @cinebyrd | Gamertag: ColonelByrd95
	Calder Laban
	Calder Laban is a freshman at Jones College Prep. He enjoys all sorts of games, from strat-sims to adventure games. He also enjoys film, especially the movies by Quentin Tarantino. Calder plays Dota 2, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, Half Life, Age of Mythology, Cortex Command and many others, but has yet to find his favorite game. He likes to play video with others, especially Adjani, who he has a “friendly” rivalry with. Calder also has an unhealthy number of plans for the end of the world, especially when it includes zombies.
	Steam ID: [Knaves] Jarobrains
	John McNamara
	John is an aspiring writer and actor from Chicago, and the sole winner of YOUmedia’s NaNoWriMo event in 2012. He plans to participate in this year’s WriMo as well and write more until then. He is a student at Jones College Prep and is an active member of the musical production this year. Attending YOUmedia nearly every day, John currently ranks #3 on the ‘extreme cool person’ leader board.
	Twitter: @manta_tail | Steam ID: mantatail
	Adjani Moulton
	Adjani Moulton is a student at Jones College Prep who loves video games, sleep, and other things that require no effort. He will “murder” anybody that plays Shellshock 2:Blood Trails. His favorite movies are:Black Dynamite, Dolemite, and 28 Weeks Later.
	Steam ID: adjani97
	Stanley Ng
	Stanley is a senior at Jones College Prep. He is one of the founding members of Library of Games and the host of the LoG podcast. Stanley is an expert at real time strategies and is basically the most strategic person we’ve ever met. He is also secretly Robbie Pegasus.
	Twitter: @pershire115 | Steam ID: Pershire _KingOfKimchi_
	Taylor Bayless
	Taylor Bayless is the lead mentor and founder of Library of Games. She used to be a Cinema Studies person but was then sucked into the world of libraries. She is currently a librarian at YOUmedia Chicago and aside from working with LoG she also teaches the Geek Craft program. She is a life-long gamer and a particular fan of adventure games, especially the work of LucasArts, Double Fine, Telltale and Quantic Dream. Working with this amazing group of teen gamers has been the highlight of her professional life and it has been a pleasure to share her love of videogames with the teens of YOUmedia.
	Twitter: @taylorbayless | Steam ID: mindcrayons

 

Alumni

Aaron Eckart-Frank

Aaron is a freshman at Grinnell College. He is a graduate of Jones College Prep and was a member of LoG for 3 years. Aaron was our resident mobile gaming expert and was the tallest member of the podcast.

Twitter: @frednoris007 | Steam ID: Pachinko Hero

Nikkei Ferron

Nikkei is currently a freshman in college and a graduate of the Chicago Virtual Charter School. He was our MMORPG expert and a giant Mega Man and Sonic fan. Nikkei is also a sprite animator look for his new web series coming soon.

Twitter: @NikkeiZX

Patrick Hermann

Patrick is currently a junior as Boston University and a graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep. He was the original host the podcast and featured in all of the lost episodes LoG.

Twitter: @patrickhermann | Steam ID: sottoxvoce

Malic Monti

Malic is a freshman at Columbia College and a graduate of Jones College Prep. Malic was our independent gaming expert. Malic is an artist, illustrator and designer and created our first illustrated LoG portrait.

Twitter: @8bit_ghost | Steam ID: 8bit_ghost