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title: Cooperation and opposition
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  Participants use devices with different information or capabilities. Success
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  - id: source-909400af9fbfca32
    title: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
    url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/341800/'
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    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: Cooperation and opposition
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      Participants use devices with different information or capabilities.
      Success depends on communication and coordination.
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    tips:
      - Give each participant information the others need.
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  Original editorial design catalog consolidated from project discussions on
  2026-10-20. Complete discussion item lists and contextual limitations are
  preserved; linked primary sources support specific techniques, not the entire
  classification. English translation was prepared with machine assistance and
  editorial review.
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# Cooperation and opposition

id: electronic-devices--family-g32
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/electronic-devices--family-g32
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/electronic-devices--family-g32/

Participants use devices with different information or capabilities. Success depends on communication and coordination.

## At a glance

![The defuser sees modules that must be described to an expert](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/adventure-keep-talking-00.webp)

[Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes](https://store.steampowered.com/app/341800/) · Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Publisher-distributed Steam screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.

1. Modules require exchanging precise information

- Give each participant information the others need.

- [Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes](https://store.steampowered.com/app/341800/)

## How it works

Devices: Computer; Smartphone; Walkie Talkie; Terminal; Device.

## Variants

### Variants and applications

<a id="family-g32-variants"></a>

- Separate the roles of operator and performer. Rule: One player sees the system, the other acts in the world... <a id="variant-g32-01"></a>
- Exchange different pieces of information. Rule: Compare information that is not available to one participant. <a id="variant-g32-02"></a>
- Synchronously activate. Rule: Perform actions on multiple devices at a coordinated time. <a id="variant-g32-03"></a>
- Transfer control. Rule: Give up the device or session to a partner with the required ability. <a id="variant-g32-04"></a>
- Protect the working operator. Rule: Provide him time and safety to complete the task. <a id="variant-g32-05"></a>
- Compete for control. Rule: Intercept the device or confront another operator. <a id="variant-g32-06"></a>

## Context and limits

Author's taxonomy of actions, task forms and end-to-end conditions for design. Categories overlap. References support individual families, not every variant.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Original editorial design catalog consolidated from project discussions on 2026-10-20. Complete discussion item lists and contextual limitations are preserved; linked primary sources support specific techniques, not the entire classification. English translation was prepared with machine assistance and editorial review.

- [Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes](https://store.steampowered.com/app/341800/) (id: source-909400af9fbfca32)

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