Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (519 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004K1ZES8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 127 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Reality is Broken shows that games can teach us essential lessons about mass collaboration, creating emotional incentives, and increasing engagement that will be relevant to everyone.. Instead of futile handwringing about this exodus from reality, world-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal argues that we need to figure out how to make the real world-our homes, our businesses and our communities-engage us in the way that games do. Drawing on positive psychology and cognitive science, McGonigal reveals how game designers have hit on core truths about what makes us happy, from social connection to having satisfying work to do. Hundreds of millions of people globally - 174 million in the United States alone - regularly inhabit game worlds because they provide the rewards, stimulating challenges, and epic victories that are so often lacking in the real world. Game designers intuitively understand how to optimize human experience. In today's society, games are fulfilling real human needs in ways that reality is not
New perspective for a nongamer My guy is an avid gamer. He literally wants to play video games for the rest of his life and is in the process of getting a degree in game design. I grew up never playing video games because my parents thought it would ruin my eyes. So when my boyfriend tried to teach me how to play, I would literally get stuck in the corner and have trouble moving and turning the other way. Its lame, I know. But it got frustrating and so I never really gave gaming a chance. Being as that was the case, I never really understood the gami. Eric Lee said Brilliant; A Hope for Our Future.. Bottom line: Jane McGonigal presents an eloquent and insightful analysis of modern gaming trends and of the psychology of gaming and gamers.The largest and most daring assertion that the author makes is in the third part of her book, entitled "How Very Big Games Can Change the World."The book's title refers to the broken nature of our motivational understanding of relationships, occupations, and responsibilities in general.Daniel Pink similarly discusses this broken phenomenon in Drive: The Surprising Truth About What M. Are games better than real life? I very much enjoyed this attempt to bring Real Life and games together.A good game is much more satisfying than Real Life in many ways- especially since it has a guarantee of progress: if one does the "right" thing, one makes progress in the game.Unfortunately, this is not as true of actual life.Now- to some extent, we can make aspects of Real Life into a game: this can be really helpful in certain areas, such as housekeeping. It might also be a help for clever managers who want to inspire/give incentives to their worke