Max presents a proposal for a collaborative/competitive story-telling game inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories and explains his design process so far.
Nick explores the relationship between dramatic structure and the shape of gameplay and identifies three mechanics that designers use to create a sense of dramatic tension in their games.
In this post, Max speculates about the origins of cooperative analog games. He then gives us an overview of what he calls the "piloting
problem" in cooperative games, discusses games which attempt to solve
it, and reviews four potential solutions.
In this post Nick discusses why he loves it when he only has two options on his turn and speculates about what this suggests about Meaningful Choice in game design.
In this post Max discusses why the poor design elements of the Hunger Games makes them less fun to watch and less fun (and fair) to play. He poses several design solutions to correct these problems.
