Wildcraft: a cooperative board game art

Draw a cooperation card and you get an opportunity to help out a fellow player! You can give them an herb they need for their ailment OR bring them up to your space. This is a cooperative board game.

Where's the competition in this??!??

Well, if you were out hiking in real life, wouldn't you help your friends out? Would you leave them behind? Of course not.

Wildcraft! builds strategic thinking for team work.

Cooperativegames.com, who sells cooperative board games, had this to say about cooperative versus competitive play...

"The concept behind most games in our society is based on an adversarial model - players take on roles as enemies. One player winds up as the "winner" while the other players become "losers". The winner is often viewed as the good or smart person and the loser as bad or even dumb.

According to many sociologists and psychologists, this concept is counter-productive and unhealthy. Competition was virtually unknown to the Zuni and Iroquois in North America and to the Bathonga in South Africa. The Mixtecans of Mexico regard envy and competitiveness as a minor crime. From kibbutzniks in Israel to farmers in Mexico, cooperation is prized and competition generally avoided.

Cooperative and non-competitive play, based on problem solving and working together towards a common goal, benefits everyone. This concept is becoming more and more accepted in public and private schools throughout the United States and is very commonplace in Europe."

That is a great explanation as to why we designed Wildcraft! a cooperative board game.