McGonigal, 33, a strikingly attractive blond in a black corset dress and gray knee-high boots, her huge pale blue eyes lightly rimmed in dark liner (she'll later accurately describe her look as "goth warrior princess"), scans the room, triumphant. The remnants of the competitive zing I experienced during those fifth-grade recess championships still linger: I really want to win. "No? Okay.go!"įor the next 90 seconds, we're laser-focused, trying to pin down our opponents' thumbs at the same time. "Does anyone have a free hand?" McGonigal searches the crowd. Grasping the hands of the strangers sitting on either side of me, I summon my long-dormant thumb-wrestling skills. This being South by Southwest Interactive, the hipster-geek conference held each spring in the Texas capital, everyone's eager to accept the mission. "Can we connect every hand in this room?" she asks. In a ballroom at the Austin Convention Center, game designer Jane McGonigal presents her standing-room audience with a challenge: a massive multiplayer thumb war.
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