American - Designer | October 21, 1977 -
We can boost our immune systems by strengthening our social networks and decreasing stress.
Jane McGonigal
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In the future, I think it's pretty plausible that collective intelligence tools and skills will be important in order to be a part of global dialog, global business, and global creativity. People who know how to negotiate collective intelligence networks are going to be in a good position to contribute to global society.
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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.
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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.
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My favorite part of running is the thinking time.
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There are people who are very dismissive of games and gamers.
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Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
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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.
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Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.
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Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.
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Although I'm perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that - feeling isolated or lonely, looking for meaning and the kinds of things that ease that suffering in life, and finding them in large-scale social interaction, like theater and games.
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Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?
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