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Jane McGonigal
Psychology & Personal Growth
Jane McGonigal is an American game designer, researcher, and author whose work explores how games can support resilience, personal goals, and happiness.
Biography
Jane McGonigal is an American author, game designer, and researcher known for Jane the Concussion Slayer and her role as Director of Game Research and Development at Institute for the Future. She earned a Ph.D. in Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 2006, becoming the department’s first student to study computer and video games. Her game work includes I Love Bees and World Without Oil.
Following a severe concussion in 2009, McGonigal created Jane the Concussion Slayer as a therapeutic game. It developed into SuperBetter, a platform designed to help people build resilience and pursue personal goals. Her books include Reality Is Broken, which argues that games can contribute to happiness and address social problems; SuperBetter; and Imaginable.
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Books by Jane McGonigal
SuperBetter
SuperBetter describes McGonigal’s recovery from a debilitating concussion through turning her therapeutic process into a digital game. The game became the subject of a major NIH research study.