Jane McGonigal is the Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California. She has created and deployed games and missions in more than 30 countries on six continents. She specializes in games that help gamers enjoy their real lives more and games that challenge players to tackle real-world problems, through planetary-scale collaboration. She has appeared at the New Yorker Conference, the TED Conference, keynoted SXSW Interactive, the Game Developers Conference, the Idea Festival, the National Association of Broadcasters, ETech, Web 2.0, UX Week, Webstock, and more. She has a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in performance studies, and has consulted and developed internal game workshops for leading technology companies in Asia, Europe, and the US, as well as more than a dozen Fortune Global 500 Companies. Her book Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Happy and How They Can Help Us Change the World will be published by Penguin Press in January 2011.
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