Reality Is Broken
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Reality Is Broken
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Author : Jane McGonigal
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-01-20
Reality Is Broken written by Jane McGonigal and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-20 with Psychology categories.
“McGonigal is a clear, methodical writer, and her ideas are well argued. Assertions are backed by countless psychological studies.” —The Boston Globe “Powerful and provocative . . . McGonigal makes a persuasive case that games have a lot to teach us about how to make our lives, and the world, better.” —San Jose Mercury News “Jane McGonigal's insights have the elegant, compact, deadly simplicity of plutonium, and the same explosive force.” —Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother A visionary game designer reveals how we can harness the power of games to boost global happiness. With 174 million gamers in the United States alone, we now live in a world where every generation will be a gamer generation. But why, Jane McGonigal asks, should games be used for escapist entertainment alone? In this groundbreaking book, she shows how we can leverage the power of games to fix what is wrong with the real world-from social problems like depression and obesity to global issues like poverty and climate change-and introduces us to cutting-edge games that are already changing the business, education, and nonprofit worlds. Written for gamers and non-gamers alike, Reality Is Broken shows that the future will belong to those who can understand, design, and play games. Jane McGonigal is also the author of SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient.
Reality Is Broken
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Author : Jane McGonigal
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-02-10
Reality Is Broken written by Jane McGonigal and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-10 with Science categories.
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.
The Art Of Game Design
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Author : Jesse Schell
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2019-07-31
The Art Of Game Design written by Jesse Schell and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-31 with Computers categories.
The Art of Game Design guides you through the design process step-by-step, helping you to develop new and innovative games that will be played again and again. It explains the fundamental principles of game design and demonstrates how tactics used in classic board, card and athletic games also work in top-quality video games. Good game design happens when you view your game from as many perspectives as possible, and award-winning author Jesse Schell presents over 100 sets of questions to ask yourself as you build, play and change your game until you finalise your design. This latest third edition includes examples from new VR and AR platforms as well as from modern games such as Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us, Free to Play games, hybrid games, transformational games, and more. Whatever your role in video game development an understanding of the principles of game design will make you better at what you do. For over 10 years this book has provided inspiration and guidance to budding and experienced game designers - helping to make better games faster.
Superbetter
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Author : Jane McGonigal
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2016-09-13
Superbetter written by Jane McGonigal and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-13 with Self-Help categories.
An innovative guide to living gamefully, based on the program that has already helped nearly half a million people achieve remarkable personal growth In 2009, internationally renowned game designer Jane McGonigal suffered a severe concussion. Unable to think clearly or work or even get out of bed, she became anxious and depressed, even suicidal. But rather than let herself sink further, she decided to get better by doing what she does best: she turned her recovery process into a resilience-building game. What started as a simple motivational exercise quickly became a set of rules for “post-traumatic growth” that she shared on her blog. These rules led to a digital game and a major research study with the National Institutes of Health. Today nearly half a million people have played SuperBetter to get stronger, happier, and healthier. But the life-changing ideas behind SuperBetter are much bigger than just one game. In this book, McGonigal reveals a decade’s worth of scientific research into the ways all games—including videogames, sports, and puzzles—change how we respond to stress, challenge, and pain. She explains how we can cultivate new powers of recovery and resilience in everyday life simply by adopting a more “gameful” mind-set. Being gameful means bringing the same psychological strengths we naturally display when we play games—such as optimism, creativity, courage, and determination—to real-world goals. Drawing on hundreds of studies, McGonigal shows that getting superbetter is as simple as tapping into the three core psychological strengths that games help you build: • Your ability to control your attention, and therefore your thoughts and feelings • Your power to turn anyone into a potential ally, and to strengthen your existing relationships • Your natural capacity to motivate yourself and super-charge your heroic qualities, like willpower, compassion, and determination SuperBetter contains nearly 100 playful challenges anyone can undertake in order to build these gameful strengths. It includes stories and data from people who have used the SuperBetter method to get stronger in the face of illness, injury, and other major setbacks, as well as to achieve goals like losing weight, running a marathon, and finding a new job. As inspiring as it is down to earth, and grounded in rigorous research, SuperBetter is a proven game plan for a better life. You’ll never say that something is “just a game” again.
Why Social Media Is Ruining Your Life
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Author : Katherine Ormerod
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-09-10
Why Social Media Is Ruining Your Life written by Katherine Ormerod and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-10 with Computers categories.
**FREE SAMPLER** 'This book is a call to arms from the eye of the storm' - Emma Gannon, author of The Multi Hyphen Method Do you ever obsess about your body? Do you lie awake at night, fretting about the state of your career? Does everyone else's life seem better than yours? Does it feel as if you'll never be good enough? Get a first glimpse of Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life with this exclusive free sampler, and learn how to tackle head on the pressure cooker of comparison and unreachable levels of perfection that social media has created in our modern world. In this book, Katherine Ormerod meets the experts involved in curating, building and combating the most addictive digital force humankind has ever created. From global influencers - who collectively have over 10 million followers - to clinical psychologists, plastic surgeons and professors, Katherine uncovers how our relationship with social media has rewired our behavioural patterns, destroyed our confidence and shattered our attention spans. Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life is a call to arms that will provide you with the knowledge, tactics and weaponry you need to find a more healthy way to consume social media and reclaim your happiness.
The Play Ethic
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Author : Pat Kane
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2005
The Play Ethic written by Pat Kane and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Do you believe that fun and pleasure shouldn't just be confined to after work-hours? If so, you're a player. Players are eager to take all the opportunities that the new society can offer, but wise enough to realise that wage-labour is only one part of their life.
A Broken Reality
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Author : Rob Kaufman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-31
A Broken Reality written by Rob Kaufman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-31 with Fiction categories.
When 10-year-old Danny Madsen goes missing, his godfather, Jesse, refuses to sit back and wait for the police to find him. Instead, he takes matters into his own hands and begins his personal search for the boy. However, what Jesse didn't anticipate was the life-altering event that would occur during his search. Driving along a deserted road, Jesse's car hits a patch of black ice just as Danny appears from the bushes. The collision sets off a chain of events that will forever change the lives of two loving families. This gripping and suspenseful page-turner will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end. The emotional journey that unfolds throughout the story will have you reaching for the tissues one moment and yelling in frustration the next. With twists and turns that are unexpected and heart-wrenching, this is a must-read for anyone who enjoys a captivating and deeply moving suspense thriller.
How Games Move Us
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Author : Katherine Isbister
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2017-10-27
How Games Move Us written by Katherine Isbister and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-27 with Games & Activities categories.
An engaging examination of how video game design creates strong and positive emotional experiences for players—with examples from Journey, Train, Little Big Planet, and more. This is a renaissance moment for video games—in the variety of genres they represent, and the range of emotional territory they cover. But how do games create emotion? In How Games Move Us, Katherine Isbister takes the reader on a timely and novel exploration of the design techniques that evoke strong emotions for players. She counters arguments that games are creating a generation of isolated, emotionally numb, antisocial loners. Games can actually play a powerful role in creating empathy and other strong, positive emotional experiences; they reveal these qualities over time, through the act of playing. She offers a nuanced, systematic examination of exactly how games can influence emotion and social connection, with examples—drawn from popular, indie, and art games—that unpack the gamer’s experience. Isbister describes choice and flow, two qualities that distinguish games from other media, and explains how game developers build upon these qualities using avatars, non-player characters, and character customization, in both solo and social play. She shows how designers use physical movement to enhance players’ emotional experience, and examines long-distance networked play. She illustrates the use of these design methods with examples that range from Sony’s Little Big Planet to the much-praised indie game Journey to art games like Brenda Romero’s Train. Isbister’s analysis shows us a new way to think about games, helping us appreciate them as an innovative and powerful medium for doing what film, literature, and other creative media do: helping us to understand ourselves and what it means to be human.
The State Of Play
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Author : Daniel Goldberg
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2015-10-20
The State Of Play written by Daniel Goldberg and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-20 with Games & Activities categories.
FEATURING: IAN BOGOST - LEIGH ALEXANDER - ZOE QUINN - ANITA SARKEESIAN & KATHERINE CROSS - IAN SHANAHAN - ANNA ANTHROPY - EVAN NARCISSE - HUSSEIN IBRAHIM - CARA ELLISON & BRENDAN KEOGH - DAN GOLDING - DAVID JOHNSTON - WILLIAM KNOBLAUCH - MERRITT KOPAS - OLA WIKANDER The State of Play is a call to consider the high stakes of video game culture and how our digital and real lives collide. Here, video games are not hobbies or pure recreation; they are vehicles for art, sex, and race and class politics. The sixteen contributors are entrenched—they are the video game creators themselves, media critics, and Internet celebrities. They share one thing: they are all players at heart, handpicked to form a superstar roster by Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson, the authors of the bestselling Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus "Notch" Persson and the Game that Changed Everything. The State of Play is essential reading for anyone interested in what may well be the defining form of cultural expression of our time. "If you want to explain to anyone why videogames are worth caring about, this is a single volume primer on where we are, how we got here and where we're going next. In every way, this is the state of play." —Kieron Gillen, author of The Wicked + the Divine, co-founder of Rock Paper Shotgun
Four Thousand Weeks
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Author : Oliver Burkeman
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2021-08-10
Four Thousand Weeks written by Oliver Burkeman and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-10 with Self-Help categories.
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Provocative and appealing . . . well worth your extremely limited time." —Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks. Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.