Reality is Broken - Jane McGonigal

Reality is Broken

Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

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Buch | Softcover
416 Seiten
2012
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-954028-1 (ISBN)
16,20 inkl. MwSt
We are living in a world full of games.
More than 31 million people in the UK are gamers.
The average young person will spend 10,000 hours gaming by the age of twenty-one.
The future belongs to those who play games.

In this ground-breaking book, visionary game designer Jane McGonigaI challenges conventional thinking and shows that games - far from being simply escapist entertainment - have the potential not only to radically improve our own lives but to change the world.

Jane McGonigal is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games - or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She is a two-time New York Times bestselling author of Reality is Broken and SuperBetter. Her TED talks have had more than 15 million views. Jane is also a future forecaster. She is the Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future, a non-profit research group. Her future forecast work has been featured in The Economist, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, O Magazine, Fast Company, The New York Times Science section, and more. She teaches a course on 'How to Think Like a Futurist' at Stanford University, and has taught game design and theory at UC Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute. She enjoys speaking to global audiences. A former New Yorker she now lives in San Francisco.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.4.2012
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 197 mm
Gewicht 356 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby
Informatik Weitere Themen Computerspiele
Naturwissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-09-954028-2 / 0099540282
ISBN-13 978-0-09-954028-1 / 9780099540281
Zustand Neuware
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