Jane McGonigal

Jane McGonigal is a noted game designer and researcher, specializing in pervasive games and alternate reality games. She was a lead designer for I Love Bees, receiving a 2005 Innovation Award from the International Game Developers Association and 2005 Games-related Webby Award. She has collaborated on commissioned games for the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She received her PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in August 2006. 
In 2006, Dr. McGonigal was named one of the world's top innovators under the age of 35 by MIT's Technology Review. 
==External links==
*Avant Game: Jane McGonigal's website
*Avant Game blogspot
*Jane McGonigal delivers the Research & Design keynote speech at the 2007 Game Developers Conference
===Writings===
*This Might Be a Game: Ubiquitous Play and Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
*This Is Not a Game
*A Real Little Game
===Games===
*Cruel 2 B Kind (2006)
*Tombstone Hold 'Em (2005)
*I Love Bees (2004)
*Demonstrate (2004)
*PlaceStorming (2005)
*TeleTwister (2004)
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