Glossary
- Accompanist (role)
- Ad libitum
- Agenda of Players
- Balance
- Bartle taxonomy
- Conductor (role)
- Constructor (role)
- Co-optionality
- Cue cards
- Dice
- Dimension
- Downtime
- Emergence
- End Condition
- Event
- Event list
- Extended technique
- Fighting
- Goals
- Horizon of intent
- Insert game
- Inspire cards
- Judge
- Karaoke
- King-making problem
- Leader problem
- Learning curve
- Ludomusical dissonance
- Mechanic
- Music game
- Non-idiomatic music
- Open work
- Player
- Preparation
- Prompter (role)
- Psychographics
- Roles of participants
- RPG
- Rule Cards
- Speedrun
- Trading
- Transition
- Upgrade
- Victory condition
- Xenochrony
- XP
- Yes And
A feature of a game - being able to be played cooperationally and competitively during a single playthrough.
How is that possible? Co-optional computer games are usually:
1) real-time (as opposed to turn-based) and arcade-like, i.e. require skill usually both of manual dexterity and quick decision-making;
2) with broadly described [[condition]. You know you win when you get to the end of the level. But should it be as fast as possible? Faster than your opponent? This is up to you.
We can see that both qualities apply also to music games. Success of a singular play usually depends on timing. And, according to the (first rule of music games, there is usually one general and very loosely defined goal of a music game: it is to make good music . But what that means? It's up to you. And from game to game you may find that you sometimes share some of that idea with other participants (and "form a coalition") or that great music comes sometimes from a well played opposition of ideas.
Co-optional games:
- 3-split
- Democratic Chord Writing
- Djent Game
- Game Over
- Into the Labyrinth
- Mutual Prescriptions series
- Perception 4
- This Instrument is Not What it Seems
- Two-headed Soloist
- Volume Waves
