The 21st century has seen a number of pivotal cooperative games, such as Lord of the Rings (2000), Shadows over Camelot (2005), and Pandemic (2008). However, the adjacent teamplay space has seen several games that were just as foundational. One of the earliest was Bang! (2003), which brought the idea of hidden teams into the…
Month: May 2019
Case Study: Police Precinct
One of the interesting results of the success of Pandemic (2008) was that a subset of co-op games came out that used Pandemic’s design as a starting place. Some were very obviously influenced, such as Richard Launius’ Defenders of the Realm (2010), but others went further afield, but still maintained a similar foundation of modern…
Apocrypha I: Cues, Triggers, and Timers
The text for Meeples Together was finalized in July 2018, but we’ve continued to play new co-ops and team games since, including Abandon Planet (2017), AuZtralia (2018), Betrayal Legacy (2018), Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig (2018), Just One (2018), The Ninth World (2018), Pandemic: Iberia (2016), Pandemic: Rising Tide (2017), and Sprawlopolis (2018)….