❝︎We can see how games could be a purposeful escape, a thoughtful and active escape, and most importantly an extremely helpful escape.❞

❝︎Games don't distract us from our real lives. They fill our real lives: with positive emotions, positive activity, positive experiences, and positive strengths.❞

❝︎Gamers want to play the game. They want to explore and learn and improve. They’re volunteering for unnecessary hard work—and they genuinely care about the outcome of their effort.❞

❝︎The truth is this: in today’s society, computer and video games are fulfilling genuine human needs that the real world is currently unable to satisfy. Games are providing rewards that reality is not. They are teaching and inspiring and engaging us in ways that reality is not. They are bringing us together in ways that reality is not.❞

❝︎The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression.❞
~Jane McGonigal, Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World