When we first began work on the book that eventually became Meeples Together, our scope was much larger. We were thinking about all sorts of cooperative play. This resulted in us writing four case studies that didn’t appear in the final book: Dungeons & Dragons, American Football, World of Warcraft, and now the final one:…
Month: March 2020
Case Study: The Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game
Recently Shannon has been writing about Eric Vogel’s Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game. He wrote about how it encourages players to even out resources over on his own Mechanics & Meeples blog, then he wrote here about how its solo play differs from true cooperative play. When we realized that we hadn’t yet published our…
Co-op Thoughts: Playing Solo
On January 1, I took a long airplane flight to Hawaii. In preparation for that flight, I got a copy of a Steam adaptation of one of my favorite co-op games, for play on my laptop during the trip. It was The Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game (DFCO). Now, this raises a question: when is…