Team Game Over's workbook for Play Research & Design: Jane McGonigal- Bryony

Jane McGonigal

Jane McGonigal, is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems.
Her games challenge players to tackle problems, such as poverty, hunger and climate change,
She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission
Her dream is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.

She has created and deployed award-winning games, sports and secret missions in over 30 countries on six continents, for many large and powerful organisations including the American Heart Association, the International Olympics Committee, and the World Bank Institute.
She is the New York Times bestselling author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
She is the Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future, a non-profit research group in Palo Alto, California. Her research focuses on how games are transforming the way we lead our real lives, and how they can be used to increase our resilience and well-being.
She is the founder of Gameful, “a secret headquarters for worldchanging game developers.”
She has consulted and developed internal game workshops for more than a dozen Fortune 500 and Global 500 Companies, including Intel, Nike, Disney, McDonalds, Accenture, Microsoft, and Nintendo.
She has appeared at TED and the New Yorker Conference, and keynoted SXSW interactive, the Game Developers Conference, the Idea Festival, the National Association of Broadcasters, the Web 2.0 Summit, UX Week, Webstock, and more.