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Castaways – Improve your teamworking skills

2015-11-07 by David Sanchez Leave a Comment

Teamworking in the frame of the prisonner's dilemma.  The game categorizes itself as a "semi cooperative adventure", and that's exactly what it is (and good at it).  Castaways is a 1-4 player game that plays in about 3 hours, but mind you, it's not just a game, it's an adventure. When you finish playing you'll be surely driven to reminisce a bunch of anedotes and discus with the other players on how you could/should have done this or that differently.  This post will be slighter longer than the previous, but I think the game deserves it. So what was that about teamworking, the prisoner's dilemma and semi cooperation?  I'm going to be more generic than in other posts describing the main aspects of the game since this one is more complex.  Here we go: All the players are stranded on an island after a shipwreck and must get rescued.  To be rescued, they must meet a certain criteria when they have finished exploring the whole island, which comprises things such as having built a [Read full post...]

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