"In 2007, however, a new board game called Pandemic was created. It has a simple premise: the world is under threat from a variety of strains of a virus and the players have to set about curing and eradicating said viruses. But what sets Pandemic apart is that the players are all working together, for the greater cause.

Pandemic creator Matt Leacock first cottoned on to the benefits of cooperative gaming while playing, of all things, a Lord Of The Rings game. “This was a game that, win or lose, we all felt good as a family. You didn’t get the bitterness you might get if someone lost horribly or someone gloated over a win.”"

For more information, please, refer to quoted article.

(Source: https://medium.com/for-life-journal/future-gaming-rebirth-of-the-board-game-3cae1a44aad9)

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Project 'Game Laboratory: Accelerator development of education and entrepreneurship for Innovators, Rulebrakers and Changemakers' is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union

Projekt "Laboratorium gier: Akcelerator rozwoju edukacji i przedsiębiorczości dla Innowatorów i Liderów zmian" współfinansowany w ramach programu Unii Europejskiej Erasmus+