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Jane McGonigal

Bruce Feiler’s monthly “This Life” column in the New York Times recently spotlighted the life and career of Jane McGonigal. We’re excited to have this guru of games speaking at our upcoming World Innovation Forum in NYC taking place June 20 & 21.

I start from a core belief that a well-designed game is beautiful. A well-structured experience, an elegantly architected interaction, is a form of art. So any game that I am working on, regardless of the purpose, falls into art practice. Likewise, I do believe that there is a real social good that comes out of encouraging people to play cooperatively, and giving people an opportunity to be powerful and superheroes in everyday public spaces. That means for me there is something political in all of these games, as well. Now, whether is it educational, or a marketing experience, or just something I am doing as design research, I will stand behind every game I work on as art and as a political intervention.

New iPad game and how it relates to Jane McGonigal:

paleojournalism:

Domino’s Pizza pulled a “The Last Starfighter.”

They’ve created a free iPad game that lets you assemble an imaginary pizza with touch and gestures. It’s apparently a challenging game with exacting standards for how well the player should be crafting a pizza. If you do well enough, the game…

newcommbiz a.k.a Tac Anderson shares “an audio thought” on upcoming World Innovation Forum NY speaker Jane McGonigal.

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Jane McGonigal has a new video about her latest creation: Superbetter.  Click through the photo to watch it and see if you’re game to play your way to better health.

Zombies, Run! Turns Your Exercise Routine into a Game of Survival

In the spirit of Jane McGonigal — here’s a new game created to entertain and improve your real life.  Can’t wait to try. 

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Jane McGonigal launched her SuperBetter app at SXSW.

SuperBetter helps you achieve your health goals — or recover from an illness or injury — by increasing your personal resilience.  

Read more: Via matmi.com

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Jane McGonigal

One of the few pros of commuting via car instead of bike or foot is that I get to listen to the radio - especially National Public Radio - airing in my neighborhood at 88.5 FM.

Jane McGonigal had the most amazing interview at City Arts and Lectures about applying game design to solving problems. The anecdote about what happened at the library - she confined hundreds of gamers overnight in a history library, and designed a mission for them to create a book within 24 hours and experience becoming a published author… all of this was a project to encourage young people to use the library more  - the overnight event is a exuberant story of people flitting around in the library and performing theater… you should not miss it.

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We love Jane McGonigal and hadn’t seen this story.  Thanks Minjeong!

People who don’t pay attention to game culture might not be aware of just how seriously game designers take scientific research, particularly around psychology. Game companies have people whose job it is to follow the research and try to implement it. Positive psychology is actually helping players have a more positive experience. I like to say that game designers are essentially happiness engineers. The only thing they really care about is making the player feel these positive emotions, that’s why we play games, it’s the business that we’re in.
Jane McGonigal gives an interview on AlterNet about the future of gaming.

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