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2026-07-22 · essay
The Grammar of Solving Together — Co-op Puzzle Design and Information Asymmetry
Puzzle design theory quietly assumes a single player. I set Portal 2's division of verbs against the information asymmetry of Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes and We Were Here, add PICO PARK's shared learning curve, and trace the grammar of co-op puzzles where conversation itself becomes the verb.

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2015-10-08 · Steel Crate Games
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
One player sits in front of a bomb; everyone else reads the defusal manual. The reader cannot see the bomb and the person seeing it has no manual. You hand conditional instructions across by voice and cut the wire before the clock runs out. A game-jam-born co-op puzzle from Steel Crate Games, with VR support.
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2022-05-10 · Total Mayhem Games
We Were Here Forever
A co-op-only first-person puzzle adventure in which two prisoners, held in separate parts of Castle Rock, escape by describing to each other what only one of them can see or hear. Explaining yourself over a walkie-talkie - and being misunderstood - is the mechanic. The fourth entry in Total Mayhem Games' We Were Here series.
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