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December 2, 2008 3:38:43 AM CST



'Reality' Guru Not Just Playing Games

Posted Jul 10, 07 8:50 AM CDT in US Business Arts & Living 

(Newser) – News junkies may have missed the oil crisis that pushed gas prices beyond $7 and brought the US economy to a standstill. But nearly 2,000 alternative reality gamers  playing "World Without Oil" online lived every moment, reports Salon in a look at real-world uses of Alternative Reality Games and the genre's social mastermind, Jane McGonigal.

The role-playing and decisions suggest disasters, identify trends, and can even be used for marketing, though the oil game was intended to help people deal with a not-so-unlikely disaster. McGonigal boasts that the game even induced gamers to change real-life behaviors to reduce oil dependence.

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