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''Reward structures that increase the size or quality of the specific rewards as gameplay progress.''

Rewards tied are common in games as ways of acknowledging player successes, and many of these provide gameplay advantages. When these become larger in quantity or more powerful as gameplay progresses, these specific types of rewards can be classified as [[Increasing Rewards]] and can either be used to balance increased challenges or demands on resource consumption or be used to clearly indicate to players that they are in other parts of the overall gameplay arc of the games.

=== Examples ===
Many [[:Category:Tabletop Roleplaying Games|Tabletop]] and [[:Category:Computer-based Roleplaying Games|Computer-based Roleplaying Games]], e.g. [[Dungeons & Dragons]] and the [[Diablo series]], provide [[Increasing Rewards]] in the form of larger amounts of money and more powerful magic items the further along players get into the games with specific characters.

The abilities and units unlocked by new technologies in strategy games such as [[Civilization (video game) series|Civilization]] are [[Increasing Rewards]] since they do not only offer variety but functionally better gameplay abilities.

== Using the pattern ==

=== Can Modulate ===
[[Ever Increasing Difficulty]], 
[[Rewards]], 
[[Predictable Winner]]

=== Potentially Conflicting With ===
[[Predictable Winner]]

[[Increasing Rewards]] are incompatible with [[Sidegrades]] since one assumes an improvement in quantity or quality while the other is defined by providing variation but not increase in power.

=== Narrative Aspects ===
[[Narration Structures]], 

== Consequences ==
=== Can Instantiate ===
[[Progress Indicators]]

==== with [[Ever Increasing Difficulty]] ====
[[Red Queen Dilemmas]]

=== Potentially Conflicting With ===
[[Predictable Winner]]

== Relations ==
=== Can Instantiate ===
[[Progress Indicators]]

==== with [[Ever Increasing Difficulty]] ====
[[Red Queen Dilemmas]]

=== Can Modulate ===
[[Ever Increasing Difficulty]], 
[[Narration Structures]], 
[[Rewards]]

=== Can Be Instantiated By ===
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=== Can Be Modulated By ===
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=== Possible Closure Effects ===
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=== Potentially Conflicting With ===
[[Sidegrades]], 
[[Predictable Winner]]

== History ==
New pattern created in this wiki.

== References ==
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== Acknowledgements ==
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