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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world

Here's the reasons you should play video games. 1. Jane McGonigal was a game programmer for 10 years.
2. We invest 3 billion hours weekly playing online games.
3. Jane says that’s not enough hours because gaming helps real life situations. We need 21 billion hours of gameplay every single week.
4. If we want to solve hunger, poverty, fatness, climate change. Jane says we have to inspire people to do good things. In the end of the next decade.
5. She wants the gamers to have emotion to do good in live.
6. We need more epic wins so it feels good to win, and you’ll do more better things.
7. The problem is the gamers think they are better in fiction than in real life. That means the gamers think they can’t do anything better than gaming.
8. You don’t have bad emotions while you are playing video games. Why can’t we make the game emotions into real life situations like world of warcraft. They are lot’s of characters that can trust you to win the game with them and help them.
9. They have thousands of people playing online games to help people have a epic win and that’s fantastic because the gamer gets happy and less depressed about real life situations.
10. So far, we’ve spent 5.93 million years playing World Of Warcraft. She says that’s not a bad thing because 5.93 million years ago… the first human ancestors stood up.
11. Think about the time of the Human evolution. We are actually changing all the ways what we are capable of.
12. If you are in the gaming world by 21 the average hours of a person playing games is 10,000 hours. 10,000 hours means that you reach the success point on something.
13. Jane is looking at the young gamers because it might be more hours.
14. What exactly are gamers getting good at?
15. We have 500 million global gamers.
16. We are expecting 1 billion gamers in the next decade.
17. Gamers are learning Urgent Optimism that gives people motivation. Social Fabric: We like people better even if you loose against a person. Blissful Productivity: We gamers like working hard on a game instead laying on the couch sleeping. Epic Meaning: Gamers love the story line of games.
18. They have more news on world of warcraft then anything on the web/ ( World of Warcraft WIKIPEDA.
19. Gamers are Super- Empowered Hopeful Individuals: These are people that they can change the world. The problem is the believe they can change the virtual world instead of the real life world.
20. We are spending so much money on online world because “We’re witnessing what amounts to no less than a mass exodus to virtual worlds and online game environments.”
-Economist Edward Castronova
21. Gamers can achieve more on online games. That’s why the gaming industry is earning all that very good money.
22. They get better feed back in online gaming.
23. We have to make the real world like a gaming world more fun and easier.
24. Jane is saying that you get fed today and you don’t get fed tomorrow but you can play games the whole day. A long time ago people survived 18 years like that almost there whole life back then.
25. We are using games to get away from all the bad things in the world.
26. Jane said we have to at least spend one hour on gaming.
27. Gamers are a real resource.

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