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Revenge of the gamers: an epic win for the world

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Tommaso De Benetti

… One of her recent pilots, created in collaboration with the Institute for the Future, was the Superstruct Game. Superstruct works like massively multiplayer disaster movie – a crowd of gamers play together to invent solutions (superstructures) to crises that threaten the planet – from fuel shortages to the global exodus of refugees.

Far from being addicted to a “time wasting hobby” McGonigal’s work shows that gamers are a crowd of experts, ready, waiting and willing to use …

Tags: commodore 16 crowd crowdsourcing crowdsourcing platform distributed work game designer jane mcgonigal massive multiplayer playing games space invaders superstruct virtual worlds world of wacraft wow

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