Reality is Broken shows that games can teach us essential lessons about mass collaboration, creating emotional incentives, and increasing engagement that will be relevant to everyone.

Game designers intuitively understand how to optimize human experience. Instead of futile handwringing about this exodus from reality, world-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal argues that we need to figure out how to make the real world - our homes, our businesses and our communities - engage us in the way that games do.ĭrawing on positive psychology and cognitive science, McGonigal reveals how game designers have hit on core truths about what makes us happy, from social connection to having satisfying work to do. Economist Edward Castronova calls it a mass exodus to game spaces, and you can see it already. Hundreds of millions of people globally - 174 million in the United States alone - regularly inhabit game worlds because they provide the rewards, stimulating challenges, and epic victories that are so often lacking in the real world. In today's society, games are fulfilling real human needs in ways that reality is not. Because the book centers itself on gamification, my team and I thought by using a daemon character we could provide the reader real world game-like situations.

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