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9.2.1 serious games in The WorKplaCe
In her seminal book, Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World,
Jane McGonigal said: “Collaboration isn’t just about achieving a goal or joining forces; it’s about creating
something together that would be impossible to create alone” [10]. This is the essence of true collabora-
tion, the act of creating something together. It can make an ordinary workday into an inspiring ow of
self-value-afrming acts. All the gamication, staff leaderboards, and award badges in the world are not
going to inspire people as much as the joy of creating something together. The rst purpose of an Ideagora
is to inspire collaborative creation. How is that done, y ...