How to save the world, one move at a time

That was the title I had used for this piece on digital gaming that I wrote for Open recently – Playing for a Nobel Peace Prize.

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Jane McGonigal believes that someone from her field will win the Nobel Peace Prize one day. She even predicts that it will happen by the year 2023.

She is a game designer.

Digital gaming is no longer just about planting trees on imaginary farms or hurling around vindictive birds. Nor even about ancient empires and civilisations. Games are getting serious. Human rights, racial tensions, cruelty to animals, poverty and malnutrition, AIDS—these are some of the issues gamers are talking about.

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