A cooperative game is what happens after a consensus game. Choosing what game to play is a consensus game. Playing the game is not.
I like a consensus game because to play with consensus implies that we never assume consensus.
As DeKoven says in The Well-Played Game (paraphrasing because I don't have the book in front of me), we can't play with something we can't afford to lose. To play a consensus game implies, because it requires, that we can afford to disagree. We are playing to try and find consensus because we think we can do it together, but if we don't, it's not going to be the end of the world.
Consensus games.
I like a consensus game because to play with consensus implies that we never assume consensus.
As DeKoven says in The Well-Played Game (paraphrasing because I don't have the book in front of me), we can't play with something we can't afford to lose. To play a consensus game implies, because it requires, that we can afford to disagree. We are playing to try and find consensus because we think we can do it together, but if we don't, it's not going to be the end of the world.
Consensus games.