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Friday, October 25, 2013

Portfolio#2



Jane McGonigal from Brooklyn California, design games for the past 10 years and she looking forward to save the real world by learning new skills from playing games.
3 billion hours of online gaming a week, she thinks not enough and people should play more hours around 21 billion hours a week, so they can save the world.
The first thing make gamers feel good is the Epic Win which encourage them to continue and develop new skill and her example is world of war craft where people meet, collaborate and assist each other.
Players spent 5.9 million years to achieve the azura quest.
 Online game will make us evolve to be better species in the future and she gives example of first evolving of our ancestor.
US children from 5th grade to high school spend 10,000 hours on gaming.
Gamers like to help each other which bond them to getter which create strong social network.
The result of Edward Casanova research show that by playing games person will bring the best out of it.
 A great famine hit the kingdom, so they infinite dice games to make people forget about their hungers by eating in one day and playing the next day, so at the end they survived for 18 years, but didn’t end there, so the king decide to play epic games and split the kingdom of Lydia in two some of them stay. The other have to search for new lands and it seem that they make it after all as they pass there DNA to the Roman Empire.
She made three online game one called world without oil, which make the player to live whiteout oil in 2007 around 700 players play this game. The second super Struck human have 23 to survive and they have to save the globe. The last one is game evoke certified by World Bank institute.
Gamers are specials they can make changes and save planets Earth from extension.

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Jane McGonigal:The game that can give you 10 extra years of live
How to increase the live span of each individual by 7.5minates?
How to spend those extra minutes in your life?
Top five regret of the dead?
- I wish i have worked so hard.
- I wish stay in touch with family and friends.
- I wish to live my life happily.
- I wish experience my true self.
- I wish live my true dreams.
Playing games and specially Avatars games make us more creative, emptions and it manage our life.
Top 5 things boost your happy life?
- My priority change I’m not afraid to do what make me happy.
- I feel close to my family and friends
- I understand my self-betters.
- I have new meaning to my life.
- I am able to focus on my dreams and goals.
Four type of games that gives you 10 extra years of life.
- Physical
- Mental
- Emotional
- Social
The upper four activities increase the life span of each individual by 7.5minates.
How to spend those 7.5minetes by doing more exercise to gain more bonus life until you achieve the 10 extra years which will give you more times to play more games.

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