Game-Changers: The Game Show

Game-Changers: The Game Show is a storytelling-driven board game and a game co-design springboard that engages players and audiences and in generative discussions about post-capitalist strategies and the mutually conflicting discourses that underlie the “new economy” buzzwords of the day, such as sharing, smart, circular, collaborative, regenerative and many others.

In the game, two teams that embody seemingly opposite discursive poles – for example Commonism vs. Capitalism, Green Growth vs. Degrowth – compete in creating compelling storylines about transformation in order to lay claim to playing fields consisting of real-world initiatives and related ideas.

To create these stories, the teams must use the Challenge and Intervention cards available to them at a given time or respond to the cards already linked to particular playing fields. Audience members ("peerticipants") evaluate the players’ storylines in real time and, in doing so, affect their chance of success. They may also submit new cards, which get fed into the game. Thus, the game becomes a modular and generative knowledge commoning tool, both on-site and accross its many playthroughs.