This week's message from Superintendent Miller introduced us to Jane McGonigal. McGonigal is an integral part of the gaming world. She has written books, recorded Ted Talks, and develops apps, among other things. McGonigal believes that "reality is broken" and that "life should be gamified".
Snippets from her book "Reality is Broken":
4 Defining Traits of a Game
- Goal
- Rules
- Feedback
- Voluntary Participation
Four Major Categories of Intrinsic Rewards
- Satisfying Work
- Experience or Hope of Being Successful
- Social Connection
- Meaning
Benefits of an Alternate Reality
- Gaming for Motivation
- Chore Wars
- Makes work more fun
- McGonigal game - SuperBetter - keeps yourself healthy
- Allows for “Real-World Good” - gaming to change the world
- Free Rice
- Gaming for collaboration - raising awareness and building community
- Lost Game
- Ground Crew
- Smart Meter
- Gaming for Forecasting
- Spor - universe building game
- World Without Oil - scenario game - survival based on current life choices
- Super Struct - building a world - forecast real-life planetary scale problems
- Evoke - world changing experience - designed to have children start thinking about global problems like poverty and disease
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