Articles by Joseph Wu

A lot of people have been asking us about how we designed the Hints on each Topic Card. Some feel the Hints are totally unrelated to the Topics – a seemingly big disadvantage to CopyCats. I’m here to clear it up. First off, the Hints are NOT meant to be directly...

Who doesn’t like variety? As you get tired of repetitive gameplay patterns in most games, you’ll realize that variability in play is essential to spicing things up and maintaining high replay value. This post compares the variability of The CopyCat to The Resistance and Spyfall. To see our comparison of the...

As a big fan of hidden-identity psychology games like The Resistance, I knew I wanted to create a game in this genre, while examining and eliminating flaws in existing ones. In this post, I focus on how teamwork in The CopyCat compares to two other common games in the social deduction...