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Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World - Softcover

McGonigal, Jane

 
9780099540281: Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099540282 ISBN 13: 9780099540281
Verlag: Vintage, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

We are living in a world full of games.
More than 31 million people in the UK are gamers.
The average young person will spend 10,000 hours gaming by the age of twenty-one.
The future belongs to those who play games.

In this ground-breaking book, visionary game designer Jane McGonigaI challenges conventional thinking and shows that games - far from being simply escapist entertainment - have the potential not only to radically improve our own lives but to change the world.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jane McGonigal is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games - or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She is a two-time New York Times bestselling author of Reality is Broken and SuperBetter. Her TED talks have had more than 15 million views. Jane is also a future forecaster. She is the Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future, a non-profit research group. Her future forecast work has been featured in The Economist, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, O Magazine, Fast Company, The New York Times Science section, and more. She teaches a course on 'How to Think Like a Futurist' at Stanford University, and has taught game design and theory at UC Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute. She enjoys speaking to global audiences. A former New Yorker she now lives in San Francisco.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099540282
ISBN 13 
9780099540281
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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