We touched upon the idea of a Reverse-Overlord in Meeples Together and even mentioned the main source for the innovation: Mysterium (2015). As that section says, the Reverse-Overlord is an idea “ripe for further development”. Here’s a bit of that development. The Overlord is a human adversary who replaces or supplements mechanical systems in a…
Category: Meeples Together Apocrypha
Apocrypha II: Degrees of Cooperation
We continue to play co-ops, and we continue to learn new things about cooperative games as we do. Thus, this is our second article to focus exclusively on new concepts that integrate with those found in Meeples Together, based on games that we played after we locked the content of the book in July 2018….
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)….