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SuperBetter: The game
SuperBetter is the game Jane McGonigal designed for herself when she was recovering from a brain injury and had to lie perfectly still for weeks and weeks.
During the recovery, she realized that she didn’t just want to get better; she wanted to be even better than before her injury – super better! So she created a game to help her get there.
Based on her experience in game design and scientific research, she created an avatar, power-ups, bad guys, and went on quests every single day, to take the illness as a challenge and make it fun.
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Using games to reduce physical pain
This reduction in physical pain comes from 2 things:
- Playing a video game shifts our attention spotlight, and allows us to react less to the signal of pain.
- The activity of playing engages us in a state called flow, where we’re so engaged and a...
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The impact games have on our lives
Games can have a positive influence on your life, providing that you play them for the right motives. The impact games have on your life doesn’t rest on the type of games you play or the time you use to play them. It depends on the reason you play them.
Not every person...
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Post-traumatic growth and post-ecstatic growth
Post-traumatic growth and post-ecstatic growth are positive developments that people experience during difficult times.
- Post-traumatic growth often happens to car crash victims, who find themselves appreciating life a lot more after the crash, or cancer surviv...
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Bonding with people over games
When two people play a similar game in the same room, they form a strong neurological and physiological connection. They show the exact facial expressions; their heartbeats also settle into the same rhythm – and this occurs irrespective of whether they’re playing with or against ...
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