Response to Jane Mcgonigal Speech_B. Busche

Jane Mcgonigal's speech on how gamers can change the world, to me, was riveting. She used statistics to support he key points, used subjects that each member in the audience could relate to, used credible sources and studies, and proved her experience at the end by showing the audience three games that she designed and created. Mcgonigal has an incredible delivery and style throughout the speech and used the slideshow in the background as a visual aid. The order in which she chose to present her speech was phenomenal as well due to the fact that she organizes her topics into an order that first appeals to gamers alone, then appeals to all groups of people through demonstrating the helpfulness of gaming towards benefitting the real world around us. Throughout her speech she constantly adds statistics, facts, or studies done by credible institutions in order to back up her speech. She references the idea that games are so satisfying due to the fact that there is always positive feed back, success is guaranteed, and we as players are more happy working hard for something in the game than we are being lazy in real life. A constant reason for gaming is to shut out an unsatisfying world in order to be accepted by other people or even programs. Mcgonigal strives to prove to people that gaming can be affective in changing our world for the better, by using the drive that gamers use in everyday games to solve global issues. She states that World of Warcraft has the second larges wiki in the world, only second to Wikipedia. Stating this fact demonstrates just how large and important the gamers of this world are. The speech as a whole was great and I have trouble finding anything wrong with it. All in all, I think the piece was beautifully written and well organized.