Keen On… Jane McGonigal: Is Reality Broken? (TCTV)
“If I can do it in a game,” McGonigal told me when she came into the TechCrunch studio last month, “then I can do it real life too.” Gaming has certainly changed McGonigal’s life. After suffering a serious brain injury in 2009, gaming helped cure her depression. She fell in love playing an electronic game and spent the first month of her marriage playing games (isn’t marriage, in reality, one long game?) She even thinks that gaming has improved her sex life, suggesting that the subversiveness of electronic gaming gives her a “thrill.”
And stay tuned for tomorrow, when McGonigal explains why gaming isn’t the opium of the people.
McGonigal on turning life into a game
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McGonigal on how gaming improved her sex life
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McGonigal on why reality is broken
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