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Yu-kai Chou • Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards
Jane McGonigal, renowned game designer and Ph.D. in Performance
Yu-kai Chou • Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards
Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
Jane McGonigal • 7 highlights
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The game was that simple: adopt a secret identity, recruit allies, battle the bad guys, and activate power-ups. But even with a game so simple, within just a couple days of starting to play, that fog of depression and anxiety went away.
Jane McGonigal • SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully
SuperBetter: How a gameful life can make you stronger, happier, braver and more resilient
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The truth is this: in today’s society, computer and video games are fulfilling genuine human needs that the real world is currently unable to satisfy. Games are providing rewards that reality is not. They are teaching and inspiring and engaging us in ways that reality is not. They are bringing us together in ways that reality is not.