Introduction
Few days ago, when my girlfriend was a sleep, I was watching some random videos on Ted. I came across of Jane's McGonical video where she was trying to persuade people that playing games is good for us. She is an online games designer for last 10 years. Her plan for another 10 years is save the world as easy as it possible in the computer games. According to her research we spend about 4 billion’s hours a week playing computer games, but in Jane’s opinion we should spend even more time doing that. She is trying to find the way how to transfers they way being in the computer life to real world.
What exactly gamers are good at?
Urgent optimism: They are extreme self motivated to keep playing games, because they know that, if they will play and work hard, they can achieve something great, something as Jane said “Epic”. She is a fan on a game World of Warcraft and based on that game experience, says that in World of Wacraft from the beginning we are getting quests on our levels that we can only do it and save the world. After that we get a feedback, which don’t happen in real world, that’s why young gamers prefer spend time online.
Social fabric: Jane McGonical said it’s proven, that after playing computer games with someone else it actually makes us like that person more, it creates a bound between two players and the person gain our respect, because it decides to share their time with us.
Blissful productivity: One of another Jane’s sub arguments is that gamers are actually happier working hard to achieve something that they thought it’s impossible and that give them even bigger satisfaction then even relaxing at home or spending time with their friends.
Epic meaning: World of Warcraft Wiki, with over 5 million users, they mostly cover World of Warcraft. With the amount of the topics than makes this wiki larger than any other in the world, where gamers are sharing their experience, emotions which is absolutely amazing, how people can share their feelings by playing computer games. That was another strong argument for Jane.
How games saved ancient civilisation.
Jane McGonigal made four really strong arguments. The really interesting one when she start’s to talk about ancient civilisation, which survived by playing dice’s. In the old kingdom Lydia, there was 20 years of starving and to survive their king decided to make a rule. 1st day people can eat, and the 2nd day, they will play dice’s. With that rule they survived 18 years. In the last game, the winner could leave and set up own civilisation. To confirm that theory Jane found a DNA research, which showed that people that started building ancient Rome, where actually people from old kingdom Lydia. Another confirmation of the theory was the geologists founded evidence of global cool in the area for 18 years.
Non Sequitur.
Even if Jane’s theory about the old kingdom of Lydia might look really convincing or at least worth to analysis and the researches she found to confirm that argument, does not necessary can be actually right. It’s hard to imagine to survive 18 years by just playing dice’s every second day, plus the researches might not be actually accurate and you always be 100% sure that it was Lydia’s civilization’s that was part of those who build Rome, easily anyone could just move their treasures. The same problem is what geologists research, anything could cause hunger in those years, especially when nothing was actually advanced back in ancient kingdom.
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