Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition]
Author: - ISBN: B004K1ZES8 - Language: English - Format: PDF, EPUB
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In today's society, games are fulfilling real human needs in ways that reality is not. 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. 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. Game designers intuitively understand how to optimize human experience. 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.
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- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 13 hours and 25 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Brilliance Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: January 20, 2011
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004K1ZES8
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158 Reviews Reality Is Broken Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World Kindle edition by Jane McGonigal Download it once and read it on your Kindle device Reality is Broken Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World Jane McGonigal Julia Whelan on Amazon com FREE shipping on qualifying offers More Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change Reality Is Broken Why Games Make Us Better and Reality is Broken Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World Audiobook By Jane McGonigal read by Julia Whelan Unabridged edition 2011 13 hours and Download Reality Is Broken Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal narrated by Julia Whelan digital audio book Get the Audible Reality Is Broken Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World Penguin Press HC 2011 ISBN 1594202850 English 400 pages PDF EPUB MOBI Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can the World torrent download Reality Is Broken Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the Download reality is broken why games make us better and how they can change the world rapidshareReality Is Broken Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World torrent download Reality Is Broken Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change Reality Is Broken Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World Pe uin Download
McGonigal has written a fun and readable book. She has found a niche here -- the idea that video games express our best selves -- and her enthusiasm on the subject is downright infectious. I kept thinking that she is one of those people in the center of her social network. One of those people that convinces her friends to get out of the house and try new, quirky, interesting things. She makes life fun by making it a game. It's nearly impossible not to get caught up in her enthusiasm.
There are two sides to this enthusiasm. First of all, she has managed to convince people, on a grand scale, that video games can be a force for good. She has actually gone out and done things to reform the way we think about video games by creating ones that tap the potential to be useful in the world. She and game designers like her may well be a force that sees this grand idea through to the end.
On the other hand, there's a nagging feeling (the devil on my shoulder) that tells me that this idea is overstated and undersupported. The "science" here really doesn't (and couldn't, when it comes down to it) say that the world is better off as a direct result of video games. In short-term laboratory experiments, there are some interesting results. But the comparison groups here are what beg the question -- playing video games makes you more optimistic as compared to what? Because playing a role playing game for a few minutes makes you more confident in talking to the opposite sex immediately afterward does not mean that playing WoW for 22 hours a week is going to jazz up your sex life.
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