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…playing games can give us a taste of that elusive sense of individual agency and impact in a world where the work we do may be challenging, but our efforts often seem fruitless.
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…for many of us who aren’t gratified enough by our day-to-day jobs or don’t feel like our work is having a direct impact, gameful work is a real source of reward and satisfaction.
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By design, every computer and video game puzzle is meant to be solvable, every mission accomplishable, and every level passable by a gamer with enough time and motivation.
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Today’s best games help us realistically believe in our chances for success.
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Success, as they say, means nothing alone. For all the positive feedback that a game can give us, we crave the praise and admiration of our friends and family even more.
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Trash-talking, when it’s a playful way to insult your competition, is almost as important to our enjoyment of social network games as the actual core gameplay.
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Today’s ‘born-digital’ kids – the first Generation to grow up with the Internet, born 1990 and later – crave gameplay in a way that older Generationss don’t.
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The more we start to monitor and self-report through daily activities… the more we’ll be able to chart our progress, set goals, accept challenges, and support each other in our real lives in the way we do in our best games.
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Any project or challenging hobby that we’re working on that we want to see through to completion would benefit from more gamelike feedback and ambient support.
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Community games have important benefits to our real lives. They may lead us to new interests – public spaces or public instructions we discover we care about more than we’d thought…
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