Download - Reality is broken
Juan Batalla 201-20-7503
Ricardo Pérez 201-30-4187
Author’s Thoughts
“Reality is broken, says Jane McGonigal, and we need to make it work more like a game.– Jane McGonigal
Jane is a game designer/ psychologist and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize. She is the founder of Gameful.
Biography
Reality is Broken is a book about a game designer that wants humanity and society to notice how important games are in our lives from an objective point of view.
What's it about
Following her ideas she has found out 4 steps:
1. Mental Resilience
2.Phisical Resilience
3.Emotional Resilience
4. Social Resilience
Her Research
Willpower is like a muscle.
Mental Resilience
Sitting is still is dangerous.
Physical Resilience
Frequent positive emotions improves our odds for
success.
Emotional Resilience
Social Relationships makes us stronger.
Social Resilience
There are 3 main subjects for this book:
Subjects from the book:
This is the first part of the book which explains us all
the different qualities and understanding of what is a game, things like why we play them, why we need them, why we enjoy them, how old are games and many more reasons why we enjoy games.
Why Games Make Us Happy
This is the second part of the book that basically talks
of the central topic of the book of how we can change our world, society and thinking strategies if we treat life as a game, fixing reality as it is broken.
Reinventing Realities
This is the last part of the book which talks about
how a game that becomes such a success can make the world go around, by making groups of fans, followers, endind with the conclusion that with all the problems reality is better, saying that games make us better and makes us change the world with what we learned, if we tackle the world as a game we can do good for it by being happy and accepting challenges just as in a game.
How Very Big Games Can Change The World
10,000 hours gaming by age 21
Urgent optimism -
Social fabric – bonds takes a lot of trust
Blissful productivity -happier working hard
Epic meaning – epic story
If we can focus those hours
and skills into solving real life
problems we could have a better
world.
Possible applications
The way the author works is that she shares a topic and a finding and compares it with another's work. To further improve her point of view.
In a way she uses a
persuasive kind of speaking.
Methodology
Quotes
“Games aren’t a distraction to real life, games fill a
life with positive emotions, positive activity, positive experience”
at the end we should integrate games into a normal life, without looking at it as a separate thing.
“Games aren’t leading us to the downfall of humanity, They’re leading us to it’s reinvention.”
Ending