Reality Is Broken
Games as evidence of what reality lacks: clear goals, visible progress, difficulty worth the effort.
McGonigal argues that games are not an escape from reality but evidence of what reality is missing: clear goals, visible progress, and difficulty calibrated so that effort feels worth it. Her proposal is to build those properties into work, health and civic life rather than to tell players to log off.
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