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Girl Gamer Jane McGonigal’s Strategy to Change the World

There are one billion gamers throughout the world. Whether playing on their phone, TV, computer, or in real life, gamers are everywhere. Jane McGonigal, author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, is an expert in and creator of alternate reality games, in which your virtual world gaming can apply to reality. McGonigal plays on the collaborative aspect of games to work to solve such issues as hunger and poverty—a game presents players with an issue, and the players implement ways to solve it.