Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying and trying now.

Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling, new vision of how these games might play out in the high-stakes context of a terrorist attack. Little Brother is a brilliant novel with a bold argument: hackers and gamers might just be our country's best hope for the future.

There are people who are very dismissive of games and gamers.

You can't play the same game every day for years. New games are key.

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.

When we play a game, we tackle tough challenges with more creativity, more determination, more optimism, and we're more likely to reach out to others for help.