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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Jane McGonigal on Gaming for Good - 0 views

  • EVOKE, which she is developing for the World Bank Institute, promises to deliver “a crash course in changing the world”
  • alternate reality game designers are trying to get people to play in the real world. We want people to bring the same curiosity, wonder, and optimism that you feel when in your favorite video games into your real lives and real problems
  • built on top of social networks, so we use ordinary online tools like online video, blogs, wikis, and being part of a network
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  • cognitive scientists now define the ability to play a game as the distinguishing cognitive trait of the human brain
  • my benchmark for the games I want to help create is that they should only be games that serve a humanitarian purpose, that give people a chance to tackle urgent problems like poverty, that lead to world peace.
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