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Jane McGonigal – How Games Make Life Better - [Invest Like the Best, EP.138]

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

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What Is Fun?

Fun is a really loaded word, thoughi want to because to me, when you ask somebody what's fun n it's not actually the same for everyone. A game like pokey mongo is really good to kind of trick your brain into going into a very rapid cycle. O, something good could happen anywhere. So instead of saying fun, i just like think about specific positive emotions. We need people to feel more curious. We needPeople to feel more control. That's the level of granularity that i think is really productive to talk about. How do game designers calebrate? I want tok ly feedback loops and difficulty. It seems like part of the benefit of games

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