Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better And How They Can Change The World

Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better And How They Can Change The WorldA 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

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and Cathy starts to see why Melody worries about her and feels she needs looking after

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