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I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.

Jane McGonigal

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Jane McGonigal
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 21
Author
Game Designer
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Game
Games
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Nobel
Prize
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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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Games are such a powerful intervention in health and wellness.
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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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I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness.
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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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We have to accept as a society that games are not escapist. They really do change us.
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When we know our strengths, we're more likely to use them.
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Reality is broken and we need to make it work more like a game.
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Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.
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My favorite part of running is the thinking time.
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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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If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.
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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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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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I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.
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The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life.
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I don't want to be a saint I just want to help people.
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Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?
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Games that make you feel good about yourself are good games to be playing.
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The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.
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