When McGonigal says this because she identifies how games can fill a need in our life that reality can't. She says that reality is too easy because games challenge us to make us better for example Starcraft 2. This game is similar to age of empires and you have to learn to play it to get good. You have to have a strategy ready for each game so you know exactly what to do and one mistake could cost you the game. Teamwork is essential in this game if you want to win if you aren't in the right mind set you will lose. Games are a different form of work because you need to work on your skills in games like Dota and league of legends and you will only get better if you put the work in
"When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities,
all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and
voluntary participation.".(McGonigal, 2011, p21)
What McGonigal says here is that no matter what the game is it will always have the same elements.
A good example of this would be Dota 2, it is a MOBA (Muiltiplayer Online Battle Arena) game where you have to work together with your team to accomplish a goal and that goal is to destroy the enemies base and ancient so two teams of five fight for this by following certain rules. The strategies change every game and at the end of every game there is a feedback system where you rate your match and you can commend your team with four choices or you can report your team or the enemies team for breaking the rules.
Games provide something that mundane tasks of everyday life cannot they provide us with feedback, tell us how well we are doing and they give the gamer a sense of pride which can also be called fiero but the more flow a game has the more fiero it will have for example Tetris which is a infinite game that just keeps going until you lose but finite games are games that you just play to win.
Bibliograpghy
McGonigal, J., (2011). Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, Penguin Press HC, (P.19-34)
"When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities,
all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and
voluntary participation.".(McGonigal, 2011, p21)
What McGonigal says here is that no matter what the game is it will always have the same elements.
A good example of this would be Dota 2, it is a MOBA (Muiltiplayer Online Battle Arena) game where you have to work together with your team to accomplish a goal and that goal is to destroy the enemies base and ancient so two teams of five fight for this by following certain rules. The strategies change every game and at the end of every game there is a feedback system where you rate your match and you can commend your team with four choices or you can report your team or the enemies team for breaking the rules.
Games provide something that mundane tasks of everyday life cannot they provide us with feedback, tell us how well we are doing and they give the gamer a sense of pride which can also be called fiero but the more flow a game has the more fiero it will have for example Tetris which is a infinite game that just keeps going until you lose but finite games are games that you just play to win.
Bibliograpghy
McGonigal, J., (2011). Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, Penguin Press HC, (P.19-34)
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