Her research focuses on how games are transforming the way we lead our real lives, and how they can be used to increase our resilience and well-being.
She is the Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future, a non-profit research group in Palo Alto, California. These games have been featured in The New York Times, Wired, and The Economist, and on MTV, CNN, and NPR. Her best-known work includes EVOKE, Superstruct, World Without Oil, Cruel 2 B Kind, Find the Future, and The Lost Ring. She specializes in games that challenge players to tackle real-world problem s, such as poverty, hunger and climate change, through planetary-scale collaboration. Since 2018, the SuperBetter app has been evaluated independently in multiple peer-reviewed scientific articles as the most effective app currently in the app store for treating depression and anxiety, and chronic pain, and for having the best evidence-based design for health behavior change.īefore SuperBetter, Jane created and deployed award-winning games, sports and secret missions in more than 30 countries on six continents, for partners such as the American Heart Association, the International Olympics Committee, the World Bank Institute, and the New York Public Library.
SuperBetter’s effectiveness in treating depression and concussion recovery has been validated in clinical trial and randomized controlled studies, and is used by professional athletes, children’s hospitals, substance recovery clinics and campus health centers worldwide. She is best known as the inventor and co-founder of SuperBetter, a game that has helped more than a million players tackle real-life health challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury. Her TED talks on how games can make a better world and the game that can give you 10 extra years of life, are among the all-time most popular TED talks, and have more than 15 million views.
She is a two-time New York Times bestselling author: Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (Penguin Press, 2011) and SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully(Penguin Press, 2016). She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission - and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize. Jane McGonigal, PhD is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games - or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems.
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