I&#39m Jane McGonigal. I&#39m a game designer.我叫JaneMcGonigal，我是一名游戏设计师I&#39ve been making games online now for 10 years,我从事网络游戏设计已经10年了and my goal for the next decade我未来十年的目标is to try to make it as easy就是希望能让to save the world in real life就像玩网络游戏那样as it is to save the world in online games.简单的解决现实生活

This is actually me making the &quotI&#39m Not Good At Life&quot face.这就是我做出的“不擅长生活”表情This is a piece of graffiti in my old neighborhood这也是我在加州的伯克利的in Berkeley, California, where I did my PhD一个老社区进修我的博士学位时的一个涂鸦on why we&#39re better in games than we are in real life.而我读博士研究的课题就是“为什么我们觉得虚拟游戏世界比现实世界更好

But to put that in context:我们把这些数字写下来：5.93 million years ago593万年前was when our earliest primate human ancestors stood up.我们人类的祖先灵长类开始了直立行走That was the first upright primate.这是第一种直立行走的灵长类动物Okay, so when we talk about how much time we&#39re currently investing因此，当我们谈论我们在游戏上花费了那么多时间时in playing games, t

Gamers don&#39t sit around.游戏玩家不是孤立的Gamers are virtuosos at weaving a tight social fabric.他们很擅长组建严密的社会结构There&#39s a lot of interesting research that shows一项有趣的调查显示that we like people better after we play a game with them,我们更喜欢那些与我们一同玩游戏的人even if they&#39ve beaten us badly.即便是他们把我打败了，亦是如此And the rea

Now, I could make a game called Piecraft,现在，我可以做一个游戏名为《馅饼争霸》where all you had to do was get a million pies or a thousand pies.在里面你要做的所有事就是得到一百万个馅饼或者一千个馅饼That would be very boring.那会变得很无趣Fifteen is a pretty optimal number.15是个最佳的数字You find that -- you know, between five and 20 is about the right numb

The first one is very simple: experience bars measuring progress首先看一个简单的：用经验值条量度进程something that&#39s been talked about brilliantly by people like Jesse Schell earlier this year.它曾经被人精彩地讨论过，比如杰西谢尔，在今年的早些时候It&#39s already been done at the University of Indiana in the States, among other places.它已经被美国

Now, they had half the civilization古人通过所掌握的go off in search of a new world,二分之一的文明去寻找新世界so that&#39s where I get my 21 billion hours a week of game-play from.而我们现在则有每周长达210亿小时的玩游戏时间Let&#39s get half of us to agree让我们中一半的人to spend an hour a day playing games,每天玩游戏一小时until we solve real-world problems

These are ancient dice, made out of sheep&#39s knuckles. Right?这些是古老的骰子，由羊的关节骨制作而成Before we had awesome game controllers,在我们设计出游戏控制器前we had sheep&#39s knuckles.我们人类已经拥有了羊关节制作的骰子And these represent the first game equipment这就是人类设计出的designed by human beings.最早的游戏器械And if you&#39re familiar with the wor

And I just look at this, and I think, yes,看到这些，我想，是的we could take that so much further by allowing people to set targets我们能可以把它带到更广阔的境界，以让人们去设定目标的方式by setting calibrated targets,以设置校准目标的方式by using elements of uncertainty,以使用不确定因素的方式by using these multiple targets,以使用这些多重目标的方式by using a grand, underl

On the one hand, there&#39s the wanting processes.在一方面，有一个期望过程This is a bit like ambition and drive,有点像野心和驱动力--I&#39m going to do that. I&#39m going to work hard.我要去做那件事，我要努力On the other hand, there&#39s the liking processes,在另一方面，有趣味的过程fun and affection and delight乐趣，感情和愉悦and an enormous flying bea

I love video games.我爱电子游戏I&#39m also slightly in awe of them.也对它抱有些许敬畏I&#39m in awe of their power我敬畏它们in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept.想象力，技术，概念方面的力量But I think, above all,但是最重要的是I&#39m in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us,我所敬畏它们能够激励着，迫

As you probably know, the neurotransmitter associated with learning is called dopamine.你知道，神经递质伴随学习产生的神经递质叫做多巴胺。It&#39s associated with reward-seeking behavior.它与寻找奖励的行为相关联And something very exciting is just beginning to happen有些非常激动人心的事要开始发生在in places like the University of Bristol in the U.K.,像英国布

Let&#39s get half of us to agree to spend an hour a day playing games,让我们中一半的人每天玩游戏一小时until we solve real-world problems.直至我们可以去解决现实生活中的问题Now, I know you&#39re asking, &quotHow are we going to solve real world problems in games?&quot你可能会问，“我们在游戏中如何解决现实中的问题呢？”Well, that&#39s what I have devoted my wo

Let&#39s get half of us to agree to spend an hour a day playing games,让我们中一半的人每天玩游戏一小时until we solve real-world problems.直至我们可以去解决现实生活中的问题Now, I know you&#39re asking, &quotHow are we going to solve real world problems in games?&quot你可能会问，“我们在游戏中如何解决现实中的问题呢？”Well, that&#39s what I have devoted my wo

Most of our players have kept up the habits that they learned in this game.大部分的游戏玩家保留了他们在游戏中形成的习惯So, for the next world-saving game,在接下来的一款拯救世界的游戏里we decided to aim higher: bigger problem than just peak oil.我们的选择的问题比石油短缺变得更难、更大We did a game called Superstruct at The Institute For The Future.我们在“未来研究

Here are the top five things that people with post-traumatic growth say: &quotMy priorities have changed.&quot这是排在前五位的被创伤后精神再生的人们说过的话：我做事情的优先级改变了。&quotI&#39m not afraid to do what makes me happy.&quot &quotI feel closer to my friends and family.&quot我再也不害怕去做那些能让我开心的事了。我感觉到我和我的家人和朋友们的关系更紧密了。&quotI un

Now, 21 billion hours, it&#39s a lot of time.现在看起来，两百一十亿个小时是很多时间。It&#39s so much time, in fact, that the number one unsolicited comment that I have heard from people all over the world真的是很多时间。事实上，我看到的最多的来自世界各地的评论since I gave that talk, is this: Jane, games are great and all,自从我做完那个演讲是：Jane, 游戏是好东西，b

So, everybody ready? This is your first quest. Here we go.怎么样，每个人都准备好了吗？第一个任务来了。Pick one: Stand up and take three steps, or make your hands into fists,选择一项做：站起来并走三步，或者握起拳头，raise them over your head as high as you can for five seconds, go!把它们高高地举过头顶，保持5秒钟。开始！All right, I like the people doing both. Y

So, the average life expectancy in the U.S. and the U.K. is 78.1 years,美国和英国的平均年龄是78.1岁，but we know from more than 1,000 peer-reviewed scientific studies that you can add 10 years of life by boosting your four types of resilience.但我们从1000个同龄人的研究中看出，你可以通过增强这4种意志力来延寿10年。So every single year that you a

And soon, I started hearing from people all over the world who were adopting their own secret identity,在此之后我开始得到从世界各地来的反馈，他们开始选择他们自己秘密身份，recruiting their own allies, and they were getting &quotsuper better,&quot招募他们自己的盟友，他们开始变得“极了不起”facing challenges like cancer and chronic pain, depression and Croh

Number one: I wish I hadn&#39t worked so hard.第一位：我希望我工作没有那么卖力。Number two: I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.第二位：我希望我和我的朋友们一直保持联系。Number three: I wish I had let myself be happier.第三位：我希望我能让自己过得跟快乐些。Number four: I wish I&#39d had the courage to express my true self.第四位：我希望我曾鼓励过我做真正的自己。And

Now this became my new secret identity, and the first thing I did as a slayer was call my twin sister现在这个游戏变成了我的新的秘密身份。当时我当杀手的第一件事是打电话给我的孪生姐妹，I have an identical twin sister named Kelly — and tell her,我的双胞胎姐妹叫Kelly--告诉她，&quotI&#39m playing a game to heal my brain, and I want you to play with me.&quo

&quotI wish I&#39d let myself be happier.&quot“我希望我能让自己过得跟快乐些。”Well, here I can&#39t help but think of the groundbreaking clinical trials recently conducted at East Carolina University的确，我在这里还是帮不上忙，但是想想近来被东卡罗来纳州立大学进行的一些有突破的临床试验表明that showed that online games can outperform pharmaceuticals for treati

So good job. Quest number three.干得不错！我们来开始第三个任务。Pick one: Because of the room, fate&#39s really determined this for you, but here are the two options.任选一项：因为我们都在一个大厅里，这使得我们没选择余地，但有两个选项。If you&#39re inside, find a window and look out of it.如果你在房子里，选一个窗户向外看If you&#39re outside, find a window and look

Now let me tell you that story.现在让我告诉你们那个故事吧。It started two years ago, when I hit my head and got a concussion.这得从两年前说起，当我头被撞后我得了脑震荡。The concussion didn&#39t heal properly, and after 30 days,直到现在，脑震荡还没有痊愈。在那之后的30天后，I was left with symptoms like nonstop headaches, nausea, vertigo, memory loss, mental

I&#39m a gamer, so I like to have goals. I like special missions and secret objectives.我是一个游戏玩家，因此我喜欢得分。我喜欢特殊的使命和神秘的目标。So here&#39s my special mission for this talk:因此，我这次演讲的特殊使命是：I&#39m going to try to increase the life span of every single person in this room by seven and a half minutes.我将尽力为这个大厅里

All right, pick one, last quest: Shake someone&#39s hand for six seconds,很好，选一个，最后一个使命：和任何一个人握手6秒钟or send someone a quick thank you by text, email, Facebook or Twitter. Go!或者通过短信、邮件、Facebook、Twitter，说一声谢谢你，开始!Looking good, looking good. Nice, nice. Keep it up. I love it!看起来很好，看起来很好！太棒了！太棒了！不要放弃，我很喜欢

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