The document discusses the significance of video games, asserting they can be productive and beneficial rather than just a waste of time. It highlights the potential of games to foster positive emotions, relationships, and real-life accomplishments while encouraging greater responsibility in gaming. The author advocates for creating games that inspire hope and achievement, ultimately repositioning gaming as a powerful tool for personal development.

1. We spend 3 billion hours a week playing videogames.… is it worth it?

2. We’ve convinced ourselves:Games are awaste of time.

3. They’re addicting – and a distraction from what really matters: real life.

5. “Playing games is the single most productive thing we can do with our time.”

6. We should play games 21 billion hours a week!

7. WTF? That’s a crazy idea.

9. Does 10,000 hours of playing computer and videogames have side effects?

13. Do games bring out the best in us?

16. Are games a gateway to real-life goals?

19. Do games change who we think we really are?

22. Are games protecting us from real harm?

25. Can games give us real-life superpowers?

27. YES.Games do bring out the best in us.Games are a gateway to real-life goals.Games do change who we think we really are.Games are protecting us from real harm.Games can give us actual superpowers.

28. With great gaming comes great responsibility.

30. “The opposite of play isn’twork – it’s depression.”

31. EUSTRESSpositive stress

38. The positive emotions we get from games are already spilling over into real life.

39. But we can do more.We can make a bigger positive impact.

40. How are we Doing?Positive Emotion A-Relationships B Meaning FAccomplishments D+

41. How are we Doing?Positive Emotion A+Relationships A- Meaning B+Accomplishments A+(in the game)

42. FLOURISHINGPositive EmotionRelationships MeaningAccomplishments(PERMA)(in reality)

43. Real Positive Emotion

44. The Springboard Effect

45. (not this, exactly)

46. (more like this)

48. Janethe concussionslayer

49. My watcher: my twin sister Kelly

50. My Willow: my husband Kiyash

51. My Xander: my friends Natalie, Rommel & Maurice

52. Make recovery feel:Possible – optimismInteresting – curiositySelf-motivated – agencyMeaningful – awe, wonder… for me AND my caretakers.

53. SuperBettera multi-player adventure game

54. Real Relationships

55. We need radically more cooperative gamesLET’S PLAY: “DhoomMachale”, circa 2013, the world’s first FPS dance game

60. Real Meaning

61. We need games that spark real hopeLET’S PLAY: “Civ D”, circa 2014, the first AAA game about surviving a peaceful revolution

68. Real Accomplishments

69. We need games that deliver real achievementsLET’S PLAY: “Fallout: 中国”, circa 2015, an action role-playing game that requires increasingly complex conversational Mandarin to interact with characters

72. 你好Ni haoHELLO谢谢XiexieTHANK YOU

75. We spend 3 billion hours a week playing videogames.… is it worth it?

76. How are we Doing?Positive Emotion A-Relationships B Meaning FAccomplishments D+

77. With great gaming comes great responsibility.

78. Gameful.org

79. QUESTIONS?P.S.Let’s tweet: @avantgameOr get these slides: slideshare.net/avantgame