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Jane McGonigal: How Games Can Make a Better World

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Commonwealth Club of California

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The Psychological Impact of Gaming 28+ Hours Per Week

02 min 14 sec

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Jane McGonigal discusses the impact of gaming on the psychological health of gamers. McGonigal explains that when players spend more than 28 hours a week gaming, it can have a negative impact. She points to social and physical gaming as healthier alternatives, arguing these types of games facilitate a connection between gamers and real life friends and family.
Chores Get Gamified: Players Compete to Clean the Toilet

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Game designer and author Jane McGonigal recounts how the computer game Chore Wars pitted her and her husband against one another to see who could perform more household chores. "We wound up doing some funny things, like hiding the toilet brush so the other person couldn't do it," she says.
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Posted: 06.25.11, 05:45 PM

Can someone please tell me what game of significant if ANY this woman has actually designed that makes her 'world renown' ? As far as I can tell the only thing that makes her that is places like FORA and TED saying it is so with absolutely no actual notable real world 'street cred' AT ALL to back up any claims that she knows the first thing about game design. Instead of helping her sell her book, which seems to be the only purpose of her speaking anywhere, can we please replace her with someone that actually has experience and know-how about game design. There are dozens of real game designers who we could choose from over her: * Daniel Cook * Jonas Heide Smith Ph.D * Simon Egenfeldt Ph.D * Joris Dormans * Jake Birkett * Joshua Dallman * Auriea Harvey&Michaël Samyn * Borut Pfeifer * Chris Bateman * Paul Senzee * Soren Johnson * Lee Winder * Steve Gaynor * Marek Bronstring * Aki Järvinen * Dallas Snell