Video Game Book Club -- Reality is Broken by Jane Mcgonigal

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Published on August 21, 2020 8:20:44 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gigZ5q7rPdg

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This is a book I wanted to like more than I did. Jane focuses more on party games, mobile games, and Facebook games. Most of her selections have to do with when the book was written (2011). A lot of her examples made sense at the time,but don't really work now.


With this being said this is a good book. I liked the first six chapters where she talks about the different types of work and compares video games to positive work because you achieve a goal and gain something from it.


He conversation of failure in video games is interesting and not something I would have thought about before.