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=== Examples ===
In both [[Chess]] and [[Stratego]] players have a limited number of pieces they can make use of, and these are slowly but surely used up as gameplay progresses. While there are a limited number of stones in [[Go]], the positions to place these in are the actual [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]].

In [[Hey! That's My Fish!]], the gameplay area is slowly reduced as players take pieces of it as part of their turns. The gameplay area in [[Forbidden Island]] also shrinks but here as an effect of passing time and players have a possibility of slowing this.

== Using the pattern ==
[[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] is, quite obviously, a way of restricting [[Resources]] during game instances. This depends on two factors. 

First, that the game system does not allow ways of introducing new [[Resources]] during games, so e.g. [[Resource Generators]] and [[Spawning]] can remove the presence of the pattern from a game ([[Converters]] may work as long as the material being converted is a [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]]). 

Second, players must have some need to use or consume the [[Resources]]. 

[[Limited Repeats]]

[[Limited Resources]]

Steadily Decreasing Resources

== Consequences ==
[[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] lead to [[Limited Gameplay Time]] since the consumption of the [[Resources]] forces games to an end state at a speed equal to the decrease. It is likely to make each use of a [[Resources|Resource]] into an [[Investments|Investment]], and create [[Entrenching Gameplay]] since options of using the [[Resources]] also disappear as the [[Resources]] do. As long as players can compete over the [[Resources]], the pattern is even more likely than [[Limited Resources]] to create [[Conflicts]]. 

[[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] can give rise to [[Unwinnable Games]] simply if the demand for the [[Resources]] is unlimited.

== Relations ==
=== Can Instantiate ===
[[Conflicts]], 
[[Entrenching Gameplay]], 
[[Investments]], 
[[Limited Gameplay Time]], 
[[Unwinnable Games]]

=== Can Modulate ===
[[Limited Resources]], 
[[Resources]]

=== Can Be Instantiated By ===
[[Limited Repeats]]

=== Can Be Modulated By ===
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=== Possible Closure Effects ===
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=== Potentially Conflicting With ===
[[Resource Generators]], 
[[Spawning]]

== History ==
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== References ==
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== Acknowledgements ==
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