Jane McGonigal Quotes
Top 48 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jane McGonigal
Jane McGonigal Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake.
When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions.
My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.
There is so much more knowledge than most people realize about how to maximize the benefits of play and minimize the potential harms.
When parents or gamers ask me, 'What's the best game to play?' I say that playing face-to-face is more beneficial than playing online.
Research shows that when we're under stress or facing a major obstacle, we tend to focus on our weaknesses and what we're afraid of.
You need to develop mental habits that allow you to activate the same brain patterns we activate during gameplay.
Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?
Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic.
Game design isn't just a technological craft. It's a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.
Over time, the games we play can change how we think and what we're capable of. And it's easy to maximize the benefits so the changes are positive.
Whenever I do talks around the country, I map out my run. Gives me something fun to do and to look forward to doing.
Even if you never increase your physical or social resilience, seeking out more positive emotions every day alone can add a full decade to your life.
Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.
I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
There's no reason why the 'Lost' alternate reality game had to be officially made by the 'Lost' production crew.
Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game.