When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.

Games that make you feel good about yourself are good games to be playing.

If you are a gamer, it’s time to get over any regret you might feel about spending so much time playing games. You have not been wasting your time. You have been building up a wealth of virtual experience that, as the first half of this book will show you, can teach you about your true self: what your core strengths are, what really motivates you, and what make you happiest.

Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?

When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

Games are such a powerful intervention in health and wellness.