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In today's society, games are gratifying real real human needs in ways that reality is not. Vast sums of people internationally - 174 million in america by themselves - regularly inhabit game worlds because they offer the rewards, rousing obstacles, and epic victories that are so often lacking in the real world. Instead of futile handwringing relating to this exodus from fact, world-renowned game creator Jane McGonigal argues that we need to determine how to make the true world-our homes, our businesses and our communities-engage us in the way that games do. Pulling on positive psychology and cognitive research, McGonigal shows how game designers have hit on main truths about what makes us happy, from communal connection to having satisfying work to do. Game designers intuitively understand how to optimize real human experience. Reality is Damaged demonstrates games can teach us essential lessons about mass cooperation, creating emotional incentives, and increasing engagement which will be relevant to everyone.
