McGonigal's Reality is Broken: using games to improve the world - Boing Boing: "Jane McGonigal is one of my favorite thinkers, and it's a delight to have her philosophy neatly distilled to a single book, her just-published debut Reality Is Broken. McGonigal is the leading practicioner in the use of games to motivate people to solve real problems with their lives and with the world.
McGonigal starts from the observation that games compel our attention in great sucking draughts, dropping us into flow-like states in which we compete against the machine and each other -- as well as collaborating -- with all the hours we can find. McGonigal takes us through mechanisms that make games so consuming: a series of tasks that increase in difficulty at a rate that keeps us fully engaged; failure modes that are fun and amusing; activities that feel epic in scale."
If anyone (or group) wants to do a presentation that uses this book and ties it directly to a or some games, let me know. We could eliminate one of the other presentation topics I've listed on the syllabus. Or you could do it for extra credit. Or you could do it instead of a paper. You'd need to let me know by the beginning of April so we can schedule a presentation time.
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