Core Principles

The philosophy behind the game:

The game's design to brings together essential elements of community, psychology, and technology to help make it easier and more rewarding to engage in important economic and environmental issues.  The playful creation and sharing of ideas and actions can help make the world a better place for people in meaningful and lasting ways.  We believe that:

The power of fun and creativity to engage the problems that science and politics have profoundly failed to resolve.  
Together, we can solve these problems, no matter how enormously huge they may appear.  
 
To that end, we've developed a few Core Principles by which we live and play...
 

Celebrate Failure

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”  - Samuel Beckett

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."  - Winston Churchill

"I don't believe in failure.  It's not failure if you enjoyed the process."  - Oprah Winfrey

 

No Bummers

"What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?"  - Julia Cameron

"Negativity is expensive. It costs companies millions of dollars each year." - Gary Topchick

"If I make dark my countenace, I shut my life from happier chance." - Alfred Tennyson

Yes! And...

"I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?"  - Mae West

"And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I say yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes." - James Joyce

"I imagine that yes is the only living thing." - e.e. cummings

 

Play is Productive

"Just play.  Have fun.  Enjoy the game."  - Michael Jordan

"Life must be lived as play."  - Playto :)

"I always play women I would date."  - Angelina Jolie