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''The ability of algorithmic agents to detect and react to all deigetically relevant phenomena.''

For agents of game worlds to behave convincingly, they need to exhibit some characteristics. One of these is having an [[Awareness of Surroundings]], i.e. noticing and reacting appropriately to things, agents, and events that they can perceive.

=== Examples ===
The enemies controlled by computers in [[:Category:FPS Games|First Person Shooters]] such as the [[Doom series]] or the [[Counter-Strike series]] are programmed to be both aware of players and the items one can retrieve from the environment. While the inhabitants of the [[Elder Scrolls series]] and [[Fallout series]] and many other [[:Category:Computer-based Roleplaying Games|Computer-based Roleplaying Games]] have the same functionality, showing proper responses to movement, closeness, etc., in non-combat aspects of the gameplay make these games lack some [[Awareness of Surroundings]] that socially believable characters should have (see Lankoski & Björk for a more detailed exploration of this<ref name="Lankoski & Björk 2007"/>).

== Using the pattern ==


Typically things that [[Algorithmic Agents]] need to have responses to include other [[Algorithmic Agents]] (especially [[Enemies]]), [[Pick-Ups]], and [[Power-Ups]].

[[Algorithmic Agents]], 
[[Non-Player Characters]]

[[Enemies]], 

=== Diegetic Aspects ===
Providing [[Thematic Consistency]] is one of the reasons for making [[Algorithmic Agents]] have an [[Awareness of Surroundings]].

== Consequences ==
That [[Agents]] have an [[Awareness of Surroundings]] provides one of the requirements for them to display both a [[Sense of Self]] and an [[Own Agenda]]. This can also help for a game to have [[Thematic Consistency]].

== Relations ==
[[Pick-Ups]]
[[Power-Ups]]

=== Can Instantiate ===
[[Own Agenda]], 
[[Sense of Self]], 
[[Thematic Consistency]]

=== Can Modulate ===
[[Algorithmic Agents]], 
[[Enemies]], 
[[Non-Player Characters]]

=== 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 ===
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== History ==
A rewrite of a pattern that was part of the original collection in the paper ''Gameplay Design Patterns for Believable Non-Player Characters''<ref name="Lankoski & Björk 2007"/>.

== References ==
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<ref name="Lankoski & Björk 2007">Lankoski, P. & Björk, S. (2007) Gameplay Design Patterns for Believable Non-Player Characters. Proceedings of DiGRA 2007.</ref>
</references>

== Acknowledgments ==
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