ยป Jane McGonigal On The Epic Win
Via BB, Jane McGonigal — game design theorist extraordinaire — talks about the gamer mentality of “the epic win” and how we need to harness it as a culture:
There is no unemployment in World of Warcraft.
We need continuing epic wins in environmenalism, education, health, economics, and multidimensionally wrt policy. Games can deliver.
[...] design failure is a business opportunity, and we need an epic win wrt fitness — or at least I’d like one. So here is a short design brief for a gym-based [...]
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