Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World - Hardcover

McGonigal, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594202850 ISBN 13: 9781594202858

Publisher: Penguin Pr, 2011

Synopsis

A visionary game designer explains how video games are increasingly fulfilling genuine human needs, revealing how to use the lessons of game design to address pressing real-world issues, from mental illness to social disparities.

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Review:

The book serves as an ambitious call to arms to games designers to make the real world as satisfying as the virtual world of gaming... There are a number of astute observations here, with lots of big ideas that will undoubtedly come into focus over the coming years, and it will serve as a n effective anecdote to the relentless dismissal of gaming culture. (Davin O'Dwyer Irish Times)

Reality is broken is the most powerful justification yet for computer games as part of our central literacies - parallel to literature or movies in the way they connect our motivations and energies within the challenges of understanding and intervening in our social worlds (Pat Kane Independent)

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Pr
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1594202850
• ISBN 13: 9781594202858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 388