Yep, Games Will Save the World

 

What if people all around you are playing a game?

“One of my favorite things to do is to have a secret mission when you go to events like this,” confessed Jane McGonigal, world-renowned game designer and author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make us Better and How They Can Change the World. “It looks like I’m just here, but I actually have a secret quest going on in my head that you don’t know about.”

There are 500 million gamers on the planet. Over 170 million Americans play video …