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US chat star Oprah Winfrey has roped in game designer Jane McGonigal to make her a new Facebook game, which allows people to share gratitude for real-life good deeds. The goal of the game is to "thank" half a billion people worldwide. The current total is a little over one million. "The idea is to thank everyone in the United States," Winfrey explained in a video on the Oprah Winfrey Thank You Game page.
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Jane McGonigal believes in gamers, because they're trained to believe they can win. She's built an alternate-reality game to tap that confidence and channel it into good works benefiting gamers' communities, with the larger goal of ... Read Post

Oprah is hoping to spread gratitude to half a billion people around the globe with a new viral Facebook game tied to her OWN cable network. The idea is to encourage people to thank someone they know -- in real life or virtually -- a... Read Post

Jane McGonigal (a 10-year game designer of projects such as the I Love Bees ARG for Halo 2) has a self-professed "crazy idea" -- that gamers have the potential to change the world for the better by doing what they're already doing. ... Read Post