Jane McGonigal
Jane McGonigal
Jane McGonigalis an American game designer and author who advocates the use of mobile and digital technology to channel positive attitudes and collaboration in a real world context...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDesigner
Date of Birth21 October 1977
CountryUnited States of America
thinking games design
Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.
real games suffering
I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness.
games long trying
When we're in game worlds, we become the best version of ourselves, the most likely to help at a moment's notice, the most likely to stick with a problem as long at it takes, to get up after failure and try again.
stress focus research
Research shows that when we're under stress or facing a major obstacle, we tend to focus on our weaknesses and what we're afraid of.
real games goal
My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.
fun epic games
Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic.
real ideas people
The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life.
brain patterns needs
You need to develop mental habits that allow you to activate the same brain patterns we activate during gameplay.
three negative emotion
If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.
thinking games loner
It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you’re not playing games.
reality games disconnected
Compared with games, reality is disconnected.
games play keys
You can't play the same game every day for years. New games are key.
emotional games challenges
What's really amazing about games is how they change our emotional response to challenges
games volunteer obstacles
Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.