Games are The Future
Posted in “Reality is fundamentally broken, and we have a responsibility as game designers to fix it. We have a responsibility as the smartest people in the world, the people who understand how to make systems that make people feel engaged, successful, happy, and completely alive, and we have the knowledge and the power to invent systems that make reality work better.”
Reality is Broken: GDC08 Rant by Jane McGonigal.
1. Satisfying work to do
2. The experience of being good at something
3. Time spent with people we like
4. The chance to be a part of something bigger
My favorite takeaway was- Why care about games? Because life is crap. Life is crap, and the ONLY thing that makes it worth living is art – and play.
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“Games are the ultimate happiness engine”
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and this lively slide : “Reality is broken. • Can we fix it? YES. • Should we fix it? HELL YES. • Will we fix it? I HAVE NO F’ING IDEA”.
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Taken one step further, if western culture and music played a role in bringing down the Iron Curtain, what impact could on-line togetherness inside of “games” have? I often think of building consistent workplace cultures despite geography using virtual worlds, say bringing a US workforce and its Indian counterpart into the same workplace on-line for improved productivity. But certainly this concept far exceeds “just games” and the workplace.