You can't play the same game every day for years. New games are key. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Games that make you feel good about yourself are good games to be playing. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to… — 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
When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become. — 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
When we play a game, we tackle tough challenges with more creativity, more determination, more optimism, and we're more likely to reach… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe,… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
It seems like what happens when we play games is that we go into a psychological state called eustress, or positive stress.… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
“During this kind of highly structured, self-motivated hard work, Csikszentmihalyi wrote, we regularly achieve the greatest form of happiness available to human… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
I remember the first year at the Game Developers Conference I wore these big red giant knee-high boots. Nobody cared. You can… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games.… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
When we're in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling,… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
If you are a gamer, it’s time to get over any regret you might feel about spending so much time playing games.… — 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
What's really amazing about games is how they change our emotional response to challenges — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Over time, the games we play can change how we think and what we're capable of. And it's easy to maximize the… — 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
Surveys of thousands of gamers have shown that they're more likely to play real music if they play a music videogame. So… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges,… — 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,… — 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
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
We have to accept as a society that games are not escapist. They really do change us. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
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 Image
