In chapters 9 and 10 of Reality is Broken, McGonigal argues that alternate reality games can create communities and make individuals happier. She describes how new communities can be made out of alternate reality games using three examples: Comfort of Strangers, Ghosts of a Chance, and Bounce. Out of the three, I think that Bounce […]
I strongly disagree with McGonigal’s “Fix #9” in chapter 9 of Reality is Broken. McGonigal declares that: “Compared with games reality is lonely and isolating. Games help us band together and create powerful communities from scratch.” In the context of the chapter given the emphasis on more social games, I can understand why McGonigal would […]
Chapter 9 is probably the closest I have come to one-hundred percent agreeing with McGonigal in her book so far. I think calling reality “lonely and isolating” is a tad too extreme, because there are many moments of reality that are not associated with these feelings. Unlike usually, this is my only point of disagreement […]
Being social in a big city can be very difficult. So why not make a game out of it? The game Comfort of Strangers seemingly makes the players interact with each other, whether that be electronically or verbally. A two team based game of Lovers vs. Dancers pins the sides against each other to “eliminate” […]
In chapters 6 and 7 of his book, Fisher mostly talks about trust: how it’s established, maintained, broken, and reforged. He starts off with an anecdote of him laying down his coat over a puddle in the street, offering women to walk over it and save their boots and clothes from the dirty water. To […]
I think yesterday’s game of Werewolf ties into chapter six of Len Fisher’s Rock, Paper, Scissors perfectly. This chapter really got me thinking about how easily I trust people. If there were a scale, I’d say I’m somewhere on the middle. Initially, I go with my gut; however, time and actions are the real determinants […]
Chapter 6 of Len Fisher’s Rock, Paper, Scissors talks about trust, and the importance in the world. He starts of with a slightly amusing example of him recreating when Sir Walter Raleigh took of his coat and out it over a puddle so that Queen Elizabeth’s feet wouldn’t get wet while she crossed. His experience […]
I found chapter 6 very interesting to read. I really liked what the author said about trust and how it forms. For some people, it can be really difficult to trust someone that you don’t know and for other people trusting new people is really easy. Some people may be very trusting but then when […]
The main theme of chapter’s 6 and 7 is trust: how to acquire it, when to give it, and why it exists. Throughout both chapters, Fisher examines how and why we trusts others,, how we can gain the trust of others, and way to deal (either pro-actively, or re-actively) with broken trust. Chapter 6 is […]
I really like how Fisher details trust, everything he said really rang true to me. I like his examples on how trust is formed, how distrust can be formed, the difficulty of believing in trust, the fallibility of human instinct, and the ways that we can attempt to make trust more credible. Fisher states that […]
