Welcome to the Living Framework for Understanding Cooperative Games
The Living Framework for Cooperative Games (LFCG) captures high-level structures encountered in cooperative games divided into Play Structure, Player Context and Forms of Cooperation; and includes a compendium of Cooperation Design Patterns. This framework is derived from a multi-step systematic analysis of 129 cooperative games with contributions of eleven researchers, and was published as a scientific article in CHI 2024 .
LFCG is published as this web application to facilitate use and appropriation and can be used as a tool for analyses and ideation, as well as a shared language for describing a game’s design.
In this tool you are able to:
- Browse the framework, quickly navigating through examples of each value.
- Create game reports through a guided process, identifying values and describing them with examples.
- Browse reported games, with a list of examples for that game.