Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we? — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Game designers are obsessed with emotion. How do we create the emotions that we want gamers to feel, and how can we… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
“It’s a truism in the game industry that a well-designed game should be playable immediately, with no instruction whatsoever.” — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
The Gamifaction Movement is trying to help companies engage their audience and community by using game mechanics and wrapping them around shopping… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
“What if we started to live our real lives like gamers, lead our real businesses and communities like game designers, and think… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
'Superbetter' looks more like a social media platform or a social network than a typical video game. You know, there aren't any… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Any time I consider a new project, I ask myself, is this pushing the state of gaming toward Nobel Prizes? If it's… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
“The researchers worked with more than three thousand young gamers in total, and in all three studies they reached the same conclusion:… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
“Gamers who have grown up being intensely engaged by well-designed virtual environments are hungry for better forms of engagement in their real… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
I want gaming to be something that everybody does, because they understand that games can be a real solution to problems and… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Although I'm perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that - feeling isolated or lonely, looking for… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share
“Over time, even the tiniest meaningful actions add up, each one bringing you closer to a life that is truer to your dreams and… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share
We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share
“Traditionally, we have needed instructions in order to play a game. But now we’re often invited to learn as we go.” — Jane McGonigal Copy Share
“No object, no event, no outcome or life circumstance can deliver real happiness to us. We have to make our own happiness—by working hard… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share
Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying, and trying now. Gamers don't sit around. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share
Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling, new vision… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share
“Gamers who have grown up being intensely engaged by well-designed virtual environments are hungry for better forms of engagement in their real lives. They’re… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share
Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share
I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share
Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we? — Jane McGonigal Copy Share
A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share
