Cooperation and Engagement: What can board games teach us?


Google Tech Talks
April, 25 2008

ABSTRACT

In February of 2008, Matt Leacock released Pandemic, a board game where players cooperate to save the world from deadly diseases that threaten to wipe out humanity. The game has been enthusiastically received, with its first printing selling out in less than a month. Matt will discuss how being an interaction designer affected the game design process as well as how cooperative games can point to new models for engagement in online systems.

Pandemic's BoardGameGeek page is http://...

Speaker: Matt Leacock
Matt Leacock is a principal designer at Yahoo! Inc. When he's not designing social platforms and products for Yahoo!, he dabbles in board game design.

Matt's ludography (list of game designs) is here: http://...

Matt's work bio is here: http://...







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Uploaded: April 30, 2008 at 9:06 am
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Length: 00:50:48
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Video Comments:
jakrueg2pbg (September 20, 2008 at 4:17 pm)
"Relapse"2-player board game by Jeffery A. Krueger is the best 2-player board game to date with no element of chance plus Lots! of Fun!!!Easy to learn and hard to master..click jakrueg2pbg to check it out!
studybuddydave (September 9, 2008 at 10:16 am)
I totally agree king, I am working on a game right now that has ALOT of money making potential!
sparker24 (August 15, 2008 at 1:48 pm)
srry dude to long to watch
KingReeby (July 28, 2008 at 2:12 pm)
I wanted to watch this video to be inspired, but his comment on game design not paying the bills is the opposite. So ill just use that as fuel to make games play the bills for me.

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