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Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
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Kelly
Sep 15, 2011 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
This book had a lot of interesting games that I haven't heard of described. I also happen to agree that games are a good way to give people inspiration to do things.

The book itself I found a bit repetitive. I didn't see much distinction between the chapters and the closer to the end I got, the more the games represented role playing more than games (in my opinion). It seemed like a lot of the games were ones where people were creating a collective world and awarding each other points. The defini
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