Category: Game mechanics

What are cooperative games? Co-op, co-op or cooperative games are games in which the players work together towards a common goal. It is the opposite of a competitive game where the players often win or lose individually. In a cooperative game, the players win or lose together. These kinds of games have been ...

What is luck as a game mechanic? Happiness comes from a combination of randomness and hidden information. Factors that you cannot predict with certainty. Without luck you could calculate the outcome of a game early and every choice is clearly right or wrong. Luck is often used in games. Most for the ...

Eurogame / Euro-Style game Okay, this time we deviate a bit from the standard. A Eurogame is more of a type of game than actually a game mechanic. Yet you often come across this term in the board game world and it is good as a starting playmaker to know what a Eurogame or a Euro-Style game is ....

Game mechanics In this series of blog posts in which we highlight game mechanics, we will discuss a different game mechanic each time. We explain what the game mechanics entail, give examples of games that apply this mechanism and give tips if you want to make a game yourself with this game mechanism. Today we zoom in on the game mechanics Roll and Write ....