
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.
New iPad game and how it relates to Jane McGonigal:
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.
In the spirit of Jane McGonigal — here’s a new game created to entertain and improve your real life. Can’t wait to try.
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.
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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!
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