Collaborative games

Improv

• Improv Encyclopedia
• Keith Johnstone. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre.

Board Games

Tiffin

Models the remarkable process of delivering tiffins (Indian hot lunches) all throughout Mumbai via dabbawalas (delivery people) on bicycles. Not a collaborative game in that there is a winner, but could be a good way to model systems and ops. Co-created by Rael Dornfest.

Reviews:

• Ghettoblaster Magazine
• The Opinionated Gamers

See Also

• Bernie DeKoven on cooperative games. Bernie has lots of great ideas and insights on games in general.
• Gwen Gordon
• Innovation Games website and book — developed by Luke Hohmann — are great resources for using games to develop greater understanding of your users.
• Dave Gray's Gamestorming — again, both the website and the book — are also great resources.
• "How to make it fun: what game designers know that change agents need to learn." Monitor Institute, December 12, 2012.