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

by Jane McGonigal

To experience real meaning, we don’t have to contribute something of real value. We just have to be given the opportunity to contribute at all.

Games can give things an Epic scale

the power of Awe

Disagree with this, games don't need to be epic in scale

These also feels wrong

We, as designers, are not telling, we’re not showing, we’re informing the doing—the actions that players engage in and the feats they undergo.”

First, the game’s story needs to become a collective context for action—shared by other players, not just an individual experience.

And second, the actions that players take inside the collective context need to feel like service: every effort by one player must ultimately benefit all the other players.

This is horseshit. No one is playing new games because of collectivist achievements outside the game

Build epic environments to connect players to something bigger

Plus One. com is literally meow meow beans

Reality Fix 8: Meaningful Rewards when we need them

Games can help you enjoy real life more

I don't think the author understands SDT

The reason I dislike this book, pulling a random post off of a forum is not a fucking source

This is not intrinsic motivation

The power of organizing the internet

When will talk life be as innovative, collaborative and fulfilling as video games are

Most kids born today will play 10,000 hours of video games b4 their 18th birthday

Gamers are getting good at collaboration

Cooperating - acting in sync towards a common goal

Three distinct efforts of Collaboration Cooperating

Coordinating - synchronizing efforts and resources

Co-creating: producing a novel outcome together

Even PVP games are collaborative

Reality Fix 14: Massively Multiplayer Forecasting

A game is just an obstacle

All 14 fixes