Our preorder page for Meeples Together will be available in the next few days, in case you missed the Kickstarter. We’ll send out an announcement when that occurs. In the mean time, here’s our newest case study, looking at one of the most popular games on the modern market. Pathfinder Adventure Card Game by Mike…
Case Study: Sub Terra
Our Kickstarter for Meeples Together ends this week, but we’ll be continuing to publish new case studies supplementing the book in the weeks and months to come. (We’ve got more than 50 additional case studies drafted, plus another handful planned.) Today’s talks about Sub Terra, one of the big co-op Kickstarters in recent years, and…
Team Study: Between Two Cities
Meeples Together (which is nearing the end of its funding on Kickstarter) covers a whole spectrum of cooperative games. “True co-ops” are the heart of the book, but it also discusses traitor games, overlord games, and even the more classic style of team games — because they can all offer interesting design lessons. Between Two…
Lost Study: Dungeons & Dragons
When we began work on Meeples Together, our scope was a bit larger: we briefly talked about all sorts of cooperative play. We’ve since focused Meeples Together on cooperative board games, with the plan to walk through other types of cooperative play in a follow-up volume. When we tightened up our scope, we cut two…
Case Study: Thunderbirds
Meeples Together is continuing to crowdfund on Kickstarter. It’s already blown through its first stretch goal, which adds a case study for Matt Leacock’s Forbidden Island to the book. We hope we’ll also be able to talk about his Forbidden Desert too, as our fourth stretch goal. We wanted to add those two extra case…
Case Study: Lord of the Rings
Meeples Together (which is now being funded on Kickstarter) breaks down the design of cooperative games primarily through the analysis and dissection of existing releases. These discussions form the core of the book, but specific games are also highlighted in individual case studies. Meeples Together contains 14 of these case studies, one per chapter, plus a…
Meeples Together on Kickstarter
Meeples Together is now on Kickstarter! Join us to pick up the book as an ebook or print product. We’ve also released the complete Table of Contents: Foreword by Matt Leacock Chapter 1: The Basics of Cooperation Part One: The Spectrum of Cooperative Gaming Chapter 2: Styles of Competition — Case Study: Terra Chapter 3: Styles of…
The Meeples Together Cover
The Meeples Together crowdfunding grows near. Here’s a sneak peak at the cover for the book! If you’d like to get a one-time notice when the crowdfunding goes live, sign up at http://gameplaywright.net/kickstart-meeples/.
What is Meeples Together?
So what is Meeples Together? In short it’s a book on the design and theory of cooperative tabletop games by Christopher Allen and Shannon Appelcline. It’s for those people who want to create games of this sort and those who love the category and want to know how it works. It’s about those board games (and card games…