I just came upon this critique of Reality is Broken. I don’t entirely agree with it, but some important points are raised – I’ve commented further on it at the site:

http://www.themillions.com/2011/01/the-dwindling-difference-between-play-and-work-jane-mcgonigals-reality-is-broken.html/comment-page-1#comment-18222

Hearty Greetings

Today was a beautiful day for me and I hope for you too.  I was excited that it was Jane McGonigal’s book launching day, excited for Jane.  What a thrill that must be.

I first decided Jane would be my mentor last year when I saw her on TED speaking with such passion about something that made complete sense to me.  Harness the energy of the games and funnel it to make change in the world for the better.  What a vision.

But first, I had joined Jane’s Urgent Evoke when a friend of mine, InK was so excited about this new game.  InK is another mentor of mine, a techo whizcat who looks like a very very tall winged green martian in Second Life, I think if I was in my right mind I should have been afraid of InK when we first met, since I’m not a gamer.

Then, I saw Jane’s TED video.  It inspired me to work hard in Urgent Evoke, to learn, connect and to set an example for other players.  Do my part to make the game successful.  It changed my life, and that of many others so it is a huge roaring success in my mind.

And now, we have Gameful, another step in Jane’s vision.  A brand new way of gaming, so new that I vote we start calling them JaneGames then we can all be WeGotJaneGamers

We have such an opportunity here, as I said to the Evokers.  This is a free gift to help us help everyone to make change for the better happen.

Don’t ever think that one person can’t make a difference, even if you don’t have a lot of time just drop in and say hi.  For the rest of us, those can make or do have the time, work hard at making this site a success.  Imagine, our leader Jane wants each of us WeGotJaneGamers to win a Nobel Prize!  Such aspirations, and I believe someone here will.  There are so many good ideas, so many connections and Gameful is continuing to grow.  Right now we’re just fostering growth and watering it plenty.

For the new monsters, if you get stuck send me a friend request and a message, and we can muddle around together.

Here’s an interview from Games for Change with Jane, inspires me all over again and I hope you feel as proud as I do to be a little monster earning bling who is going to roar.

Here we go off into the wild blue yonder and it’s looking very sparklie to me.

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Hearty Greetings

Get Satisfaction ~ love the name for the help reporting system Gameful are using.

The first blog I posted in Gameful, my browser crashed, the next one a blank profile page covered it for a while so there is a glitch somewhere.  If you have experienced this, please pretty please report it as @Henry Joules did because it helps improve the game.  

Not only did I feel better someone else had this issue but as a seasoned troubleshooter I know it makes life easier for the Gameful folks.  Not that I felt better there was an issue, you know what I mean

Here’s the link, you’ll have to create a userid it’s a separate system from Gameful, then just hit the “I’m having this problem too” button how easy is that yay!    http://getsatisfaction.com/gameful/topics/white_square_covers_blog_section

Don’t forget to fill out your profile there.

And while you’re at it, why not leave an idea or even better yet a compliment!  We all know something like this takes a lot of work and effort to pull off and I’m sure they would love to read your appreciation.

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I’m looking forward to receiving Jane’s book, got my note from Amazon it’s on it’s way.  I bet she’s excited must be a good feeling to hold a vision in one’s hands.  I’m excited for her and for the enlightment it will bring to make a change for the better.  Reality is Broken sure, but it’s leaders such as Jane who will help us to help fix it.  I hope this sparks a global movement so that Jane’s next book title is Reality is Rocking! 

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Have a delightful day where ever you are and always live with passion.

Hugs and waving madly across the wires.