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When we play a game, we tackle tough challenges with more creativity, more determination, more optimism, and we're more likely to reach out to others for help.
Jane McGonigal
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Jane McGonigal
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 21
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Pennsylvania
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The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.
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The real world just doesn’t offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded by virtual environments. Reality doesn’t motivate us as effectively. Reality isn’t engineered to maximize our potential. Reality wasn’t designed from the bottom up to make us happy.
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If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.
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I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.
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We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.
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It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you’re not playing games.
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My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students.
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There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that.
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I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.
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I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.
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Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic.
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Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying and trying now.
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If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.
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Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.
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A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.
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