What if games could help change the world? What if we could use games to solve global challenges? What if we are innately designed to respond to games and the mechanics they employ?
Jane McGonigal, game designer and unabashed game enthusiast, believes that collaborative gameplay can have a measurable impact on social and global change. In her 2010 TED talk, Gaming can make a better world, Jane McGonigal makes her case for a worldwide increase in collaborative games – from 3 billion hours/week to an astounding 21 billion hours/week.