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
reality games rewards
Games are providing rewards that reality is not.
country real school
I want gaming to be something that everybody does, because they understand that games can be a real solution to problems and a real source of happiness. I want games to be something everybody learns how to design and develop, because they understand that games are a real platform for change and getting things done. And I want families, schools, companies, industries, cities, countries, and the whole world to come together to play them, because we’re finally making games that tackle real dilemmas and improve real lives.
powerful real challenges
The real world just doesn’t offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded by virtual environments. Reality doesn’t motivate us as effectively. Reality isn’t engineered to maximize our potential. Reality wasn’t designed from the bottom up to make us happy.
real games play
I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.
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.
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.
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.
reality games disconnected
Compared with games, reality is disconnected.
real games play
Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game.
reality games broken
Reality is broken. Game designers can fix it.
accomplish i-realized wrong-things
I didn't accomplish what I set out to do, but I realized I had set out to do the wrong things
alternate officially production reason
There's no reason why the 'Lost' alternate reality game had to be officially made by the 'Lost' production crew.
commit life
I don't want a gamer to feel like they have to commit their whole life to changing the world.
prepared stand
I don't do 'gamification,' and I'm not prepared to stand up and say, 'I think it works.'