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Jane McGonigal, Post-Structuralism, and Speedruns

Jane McGonigal, Post-Structuralism, and Speedruns

Before the course started, I had begun reading the book “Reality is Broken” by Jane McGonigal. In this book, McGonigal presents the same four necessary components of a “game” that our guest speaker, Mavis Dixon, gave during her talk today: A goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation. Both also quote Bernard Suits, who […]