My friend and former classmate, Tanya Short, wrote this article about the “Unique Problems of Cooperative Game Design”. It recalled to me my former article about betrayal mechanics in games as well as Wil Wheaton’s series on good gamemastering. And, as we see with Shut Up & Sit Down’s excellent Tips for the Top 5 Problem Players, there is much more to cooperative gaming than making a mechanically sound and fair system.
Today, we’re going to explore the privilege, framing, and inequality.
