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Title: The Secret to Making Video Games Good for You
Author: Manoush Zomorodi, Jane McGonigal
Format: Original Recording
Length: 24 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-21-16
Publisher: Note to Self, WNYC Studios
Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture
Publisher's Summary:
Video games are the new self-help, and Jane McGonigal is here to tell us why.
She's an all around gaming boss and she's the director of game research and development at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California where she's spent years researching our brains during what she calls, "the state of play." After wading through tons of research, she found that gaming is a wonderland of possibilities to make us smarter, happier, and more creative people.
So game play isn't just an escape? Nope, it doesn't have to be. Jane says that the key to finding positive emotions and empowerment is to ground your gaming in real life. So when you're trapped in Minecraft, don't give up and walk away, trudge on. Fight. Or use creative problem-solving to get to to the next level. Those skills or resources will spill out from the virtual world and into the real one.
In fact, gaming can help cope with depression and combat anxiety, but it's all about the dosage (i.e. how much gaming you're doing). And we didn't want to leave you hanging when it comes to figuring out which games are best for what. Here are Jane's prescriptions:
