Jane McGonigal
Game designer and author
Jane McGonigal is an American game designer and author who creates games meant to improve real lives. She wrote SuperBetter and Imaginable.
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American Born 1977 in Philadelphia, United States
About Jane McGonigal
Jane McGonigal is a New York Times bestselling author and game designer. In 2006 she completed a doctorate in Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and she was the first person in her department to research computer and video games. She has worked on alternate reality games including I Love Bees and World Without Oil, and has served as Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future. She has also taught a Stanford University course called How to Think Like a Futurist. After a severe concussion in 2009, she made a therapeutic game called Jane the Concussion Slayer, which grew into SuperBetter. More than one million players have used SuperBetter to face health challenges such as depression, anxiety and chronic pain. Her books include SuperBetter (2015) and Imaginable (2022).