Sundays with TED: Let the games begin
Jane McGonigal is a video game designer with a seemingly bizarre hypothesis. McGonigal states, with great confidence, that we have the ability to change the world and create any future that we want to, all by increasing the number of game play hours per week from 3 billion to a whopping 21 billion. At first, this proposition might seem slightly counter-intuitive but as each minute of her TEDtalk passes, the method behind her madness becomes clear.
McGonigal’s dissection of the gaming world reveals numerous variables that do in fact make virtual games profitable in terms of how they can help improve issues such as hunger, poverty, climate change and energy resources by fostering the development of social responsibility and innovation skills.
The conclusion drawn from the research done by McGonigal at the Institute for the Future is that gamers are super empowered individuals. However, the problem is that they need to believe that they can initiate change in the real world just as they do in the virtual world and apparently, the solution to this problem are games like World Without Oil or Urgent Evoke that ultimately give a crash course in changing the world.
The question then remains – how entertaining are these social responsibility games anyways?
One of the main reasons behind the commercial viability of the gaming industry is the massive amount of entertainment it provides for its users. The gaming world has been said to offer the things that the real world does not or in other words, it is a form of escape from the confines of one’s reality. With that being said, it is fair to ask if these games that replicate reality will be able to mimic a similar level of success as games that provide an escape from it?
What do you think? Can socially responsible games be fun?
For more with Jane McGonigal, check out the interview done by Wired Magazine which continues to discuss the relation between game play and changing the world.
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