I remember the first year at the Game Developers Conference I wore these big red giant knee-high boots. Nobody cared. You can wear anything you love, because that's what you do in games. You make yourself who you want to be.
Jane McgonigalRead
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.
Interpretation
Games are universally defined by their fundamental elements, regardless of genre or technology.
Jane McGonigal emphasizes that despite the variety of games available, they all fundamentally possess four core components: a specific goal to achieve, established rules to guide the players, a feedback system to inform them of their progress, and the necessity of voluntary participation. These elements highlight the intrinsic nature of games and their role in human engagement and interaction.
In practice
In a presentation about game design, I would use this quote to highlight the essential traits of games.
I remember the first year at the Game Developers Conference I wore these big red giant knee-high boots. Nobody cared. You can wear anything you love, because that's what you do in games. You make yourself who you want to be.
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.
It seems like what happens when we play games is that we go into a psychological state called eustress, or positive stress. It's basically the same as negative stress in the sense that we get our adrenaline up, you know, our breathing rate quickens, our pulse quickens.
A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.
The real world just doesn’t offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded by virtual environments. Reality doesn’t motivate us as effectively. Reality isn’t engineered to maximize our potential. Reality wasn’t designed from the bottom up to make us happy.
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.
Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live.
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