These games have been featured in The New York Times, Wired, and The Economist, and on MTV, CNN, and NPR. Her best-known work includes EVOKE, Superstruct, World Without Oil, Cruel 2 B Kind, Find the Future, and The Lost Ring. She specializes in games that challenge players to tackle real-world problem s, such as poverty, hunger and climate change, through planetary-scale collaboration. She has created and deployed award-winning games, sports and secret missions in more than 30 countries on six continents, for partners such as the American Heart Association, the International Olympics Committee, the World Bank Institute, and the New York Public Library. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World(Penguin Press, 2011) - and is the inventor and co-founder of SuperBetter, a game that has helped nearly half a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission-and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize. Jane McGonigal, PhD is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games-or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems.
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