Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by McGonigal, Jane

Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143120612)

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Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by McGonigal, Jane

Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

$20.00
Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by McGonigal, Jane

Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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"McGonigal is a clear, methodical writer, and her ideas are well argued. Assertions are backed by countless psychological studies." --The Boston Globe

"Powerful and provocative . . . McGonigal makes a persuasive case that games have a lot to teach us about how to make our lives, and the world, better." --San Jose Mercury News

"Jane McGonigal's insights have the elegant, compact, deadly simplicity of plutonium, and the same explosive force." --Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother

A visionary game designer reveals how we can harness the power of games to boost global happiness.

With 174 million gamers in the United States alone, we now live in a world where every generation will be a gamer generation. But why, Jane McGonigal asks, should games be used for escapist entertainment alone? In this groundbreaking book, she shows how we can leverage the power of games to fix what is wrong with the real world-from social problems like depression and obesity to global issues like poverty and climate change-and introduces us to cutting-edge games that are already changing the business, education, and nonprofit worlds. Written for gamers and non-gamers alike, Reality Is Broken shows that the future will belong to those who can understand, design, and play games.

Jane McGonigal is also the author of SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient.

Author: Jane McGonigal
ISBN-10: 0143120611
ISBN-13: 9780143120612
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 12/27/2011
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 01/08/2012 pg. 28
Choice 07/01/2012
By Jane McGonigal
By Jane McGonigal
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World-renowned game designer and futurist Jane McGonigal, PhD. takes play seriously. McGonigal is the Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California, where she earned Harvard Business Review honors for "Top 20 Breakthrough Ideas of 2008" for her work on the future of games. Her work has been featured in The Economist, Wired, and The New York Times hailed her as one of the 100 most creative people in business. She has been a featured speaker at TED, South by Southwest Interactive, the Game Developers Conference, ETech, and the Web 2.0 Summit, as well as appearing at The New Yorker Conference. Born in Philadelphia and raised in New York, Jane now lives in San Francisco with her husband. She is also the author of SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient.

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