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Reality Gamification: The Ultimate Creator’s Guide To Interactive, Engaging, Effective & Innovative Reality Games To Positively Transform Our World
Before your birth, you were engaged in the most amazing, fierce, and competitive race of all time. You were 1 of 100 million contestants, and the stakes were win, or die. We were not just made “for competition”, we were made “from competition.”
Games light us on fire because their competitive lure is deeply woven into our nature. But wait, there's more to the that amazing race (which all of us won) was sparked NOT from a dog-eat-dog competition. Ironically, the race was triggered through a blissful act of teamwork. Games light us on fire because we were not just made “for blissful teamwork”, we were made literally “from blissful teamwork.” The craving we have to experience esprit de corps is found best when we are part of a team aiming to do something great.
Games, competitions, and challenges activate us. We reach for them. They seem to bring us back to life. It is no surprise that the history of television reveals that competitions totally dominate the most-watched events of all SuperBowls, Miss Universe, World Cups, American Idol, the Olympics, etc.
There is pleasure in passively watching games, but the real magic begins when we are actively inside compelling game design. Rapid skill acquisition, photographic memory, acts of courage, emboldened feelings of motivation, heightened problem-solving, and human connection all spike when we are playing games.
Reality Gamification shows how fledgling technologies like virtual and augmented reality allow us to take games back from the realm of pure amusement, and tap into the superpower of game mechanics to transform our world in all science, spirituality, sports, education, entrepreneurship, entertainment, finance, family, and more. It is a sweeping invitation for a new category of world the Game Master.
Games light us on fire because their competitive lure is deeply woven into our nature. But wait, there's more to the that amazing race (which all of us won) was sparked NOT from a dog-eat-dog competition. Ironically, the race was triggered through a blissful act of teamwork. Games light us on fire because we were not just made “for blissful teamwork”, we were made literally “from blissful teamwork.” The craving we have to experience esprit de corps is found best when we are part of a team aiming to do something great.
Games, competitions, and challenges activate us. We reach for them. They seem to bring us back to life. It is no surprise that the history of television reveals that competitions totally dominate the most-watched events of all SuperBowls, Miss Universe, World Cups, American Idol, the Olympics, etc.
There is pleasure in passively watching games, but the real magic begins when we are actively inside compelling game design. Rapid skill acquisition, photographic memory, acts of courage, emboldened feelings of motivation, heightened problem-solving, and human connection all spike when we are playing games.
Reality Gamification shows how fledgling technologies like virtual and augmented reality allow us to take games back from the realm of pure amusement, and tap into the superpower of game mechanics to transform our world in all science, spirituality, sports, education, entrepreneurship, entertainment, finance, family, and more. It is a sweeping invitation for a new category of world the Game Master.
122 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 19, 2017
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