We're so excited to announce the official release of our newest game - Game Changer: The Game of Activist Tactics. We built this game in collaboration with the amazing story-teller and organizer Felicia Perez as well as the inspiring and brilliant team at the Center for Story Based Strategy.

Game Changer is a fun, funny, and fast card game about and for direct action organizing that engages players' radical imagination. Each round, one player is the Decider, and the other players must try to convince them that their protest tactic is the best one for the situation. But watch out for the Game Changer cards, which - well - change the game! It only takes a minute or two to learn.

Here's how the game is played:

1. Each round, one player takes on the role of the Decider. They randomly flip over the top card of the Goalden deck. (They are gold color cards about activist goals - get it?). The Goalden cards say things like "Right now the best tactic for political activists is ________"  
2. All other players choose one Power card from their hand and pass it to the Decider. Power cards say things like "A Debt Strike" and "Providing Nutritious Meals For Children."
3. Once the Decider has a card from all players, the Decider then picks which Power Card is the winner. The rationale for their choice can be whatever the Decider wants: it’s the most true answer, it’s the funniest answer, it was the most thought provoking answer, and so on. For the players who submitted Power cards, it's all about knowing their audience. The Decider announces which Power card is the winner, and the player who submitted it adds the Goalden card to their victory pile.
4. But wait! If the victorious player happens to also have a Game Changer card in their hand, they may now slam it down. Game Changer cards will, literally, change the game: they might cause all players to discard their hands and draw replacement cards, give players bonus points, or they can change the order of who is the next Decider, and so on. This is because like even in the real world, small organizing wins are in fact still WINS: they compound on each other and give us new opportunities to bring about change.
5. Then, the next player in clockwise order becomes the Decider! The game continues until one player has gained enough Goalden cards to be declared the winner!

You can order Game Changer: The Game of Activist Tactics here! And our solidarity sale, which we have been running throughout the duration of the pandemic to make our games even more accessible, is still going strong throughout our store.  

If you pre-ordered Game Changer, it should have shipped out to you 2 - 3 weeks ago. If you did not receive it or a tracking number, please respond to this email with your order number and we'll get it resolved!

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Get your co-op or organization featured in the 4th edition of Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives

We at the TESA Collective have published seven games about changing the world. And our very first title, Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives, released in winter 2011, is about to celebrate it’s ten year anniversary. (Wow!) During that time, Co-opoly has become the game of the cooperative movement. It has been played in over 30 countries, all fifty US states, and by tens of thousands of people in homes, classrooms, universities, summer camps, community centers, bars, co-ops, and beyond.

TESA has sold the last copy of our 3rd edition of Co-opoly, and we are raising funds from other cooperatives and co-op organizations to print the 4th edition, which we will be releasing later this year. In return for sponsorship, we are offering exciting perks to co-ops and organizations, such as: having your logo on the game box, being thanked in the rulebook, and even being featured in a game card - so players will interact with your co-op or organization as they play! If you're interested in having your co-op or organization sponsor the 4th edition, you can read more about how to do so here!

In solidarity,

The TESA Collective

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