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Self-Ensured Cards

Game Timber Stinson-Schroff, Shuya Gong

Self-Ensured Cards is a card game that explores how protocols can be embedded in physical game mechanics to create self-enforcing systems. The game demonstrates how distributed players can maintain protocol integrity without centralized oversight through the design of cards and gameplay rules themselves.

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