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Staffan Björk: /* Relations */

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‎Relations

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Staffan Björk at 07:50, 18 January 2011

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Staffan Björk: /* Consequences */

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‎Consequences

Staffan Björk: /* Can Instantiate */

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‎Can Instantiate

Staffan Björk: /* Acknowledgments */

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‎Acknowledgments

Staffan Björk at 15:05, 10 January 2011

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 Although not directly a goal, the use of [[Line of Sight]] to detect or attack other game elements has much in common with [[Alignment]]. Further, when players can detect [[Enemies]] or other target through other means and need to achieve [[Line of Sight]] to perform certain activities, the two patterns do overlap since gaining [[Line of Sight]] becomes the same as gaining an [[Alignment]] without any [[Obstacles]] in between.
 == Consequences ==
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 === Can Be Instantiated By ===
-[[Line of Sight]]
+[[Line of Sight]],
 === Can Be Modulated By ===

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 == Relations ==
 === Can Instantiate ===
-[[Capture]], [[Configuration]], [[Connection]], [[Hovering Closures]], [[Progress Indicators]], [[Puzzle Solving]]
+[[Capture]], [[Configuration]], [[Connection]], [[Hovering Closures]], [[Preventing Goals]],
 ==== with [[Real-Time Games]] ====
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 === Can Be Modulated By ===
-[[Preventing Goals]]
 === Possible Closure Effects ===

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 == Using the pattern ==
-The prime challenges that can be designed for [[Alignment]] goals consist of how players can move the necessary game elements into the correct position and how game elements can be removed in order to hinder the completion of the [[Alignment]], which are a type of [[Puzzle Solving]]. The difficulty of the goal can easily be increased by making the game elements move on their own or making them moveable by other players and introducing [[Preventing Goals]]. The pattern is typically used in board games to create [[Capture]] after [[Alignment]] has been achieved.
+The prime challenges that can be designed for [[Alignment]] goals consist of how players can move or place the necessary game elements into the correct position and how game elements can be removed in order to hinder the completion of the [[Alignment]], which are a type of [[Puzzle Solving]]. Due to these changes of a game the pattern introduced, it affects [[Game Element Insertion]] or [[Movement]], or both. The difficulty of the goal can easily be increased by making the game elements move on their own or making them moveable by other players and introducing [[Preventing Goals]]. The pattern is typically used in board games to create [[Capture]] after [[Alignment]] has been achieved.
 Although not directly a goal, the use of [[Line of Sight]] to detect or attack other game elements has much in common with [[Alignment]]. Further, when players can detect [[Enemies]] or other target through other means and need to achieve [[Line of Sight]] to perform certain activities, the two patterns do overlap since gaining [[Line of Sight]] becomes the same as gaining an [[Alignment]] without any [[Obstacles]] in between.
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 === Can Modulate ===
+[[Game Element Insertion]],
 === Can Be Instantiated By ===

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 == Using the pattern ==
 The prime challenges that can be designed for [[Alignment]] goals consist of how players can move the necessary game elements into the correct position and how game elements can be removed in order to hinder the completion of the [[Alignment]], which are a type of [[Puzzle Solving]]. The difficulty of the goal can easily be increased by making the game elements move on their own or making them moveable by other players and introducing [[Preventing Goals]]. The pattern is typically used in board games to create [[Capture]] after [[Alignment]] has been achieved.
-[[Alignment]] requires a [[Game Worlds|Game World]] that allows spatial arrangements and sufficiently large [[Game State Overviews]] for the alignment to be made. The prime challenges that can be designed for [[Alignment]] goals consist of how players can move the necessary game elements into the correct position and how game elements can be removed in order to hinder the completion of the [[Alignment]], which are a type of [[Puzzle Solving]]. The difficulty of the goal can easily be increased by making the game elements move on their own or making them moveable by other players and introducing [[Preventing Goals]]. The pattern is typically used in board games to create [[Capture]] after [[Alignment]] has been achieved.
 Although not directly a goal, the use of [[Line of Sight]] to detect or attack other game elements has much in common with [[Alignment]]. Further, when players can detect [[Enemies]] or other target through other means and need to achieve [[Line of Sight]] to perform certain activities, the two patterns do overlap since gaining [[Line of Sight]] becomes the same as gaining an [[Alignment]] without any [[Obstacles]] in between.
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 === Can Be Instantiated By ===
 [[Line of Sight]]
 === Can Be Modulated By ===

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 == Using the pattern ==
-[[Alignment]] requires a [[Game Worlds|Game World]] that allows spatial arrangements and sufficiently large [[Game State Overview]] for the alignment to be made. The prime challenges that can be designed for [[Alignment]] goals consist of how players can move the necessary game elements into the correct position and how game elements can be removed in order to hinder the completion of the [[Alignment]], which are a type of [[Puzzle Solving]]. The difficulty of the goal can easily be increased by making the game elements move on their own or making them moveable by other players and introducing [[Preventing Goals]]. The pattern is typically used in board games to create [[Capture]] after [[Alignment]] has been achieved.
+[[Alignment]] requires a [[Game Worlds|Game World]] that allows spatial arrangements and sufficiently large [[Game State Overviews]] for the alignment to be made. The prime challenges that can be designed for [[Alignment]] goals consist of how players can move the necessary game elements into the correct position and how game elements can be removed in order to hinder the completion of the [[Alignment]], which are a type of [[Puzzle Solving]]. The difficulty of the goal can easily be increased by making the game elements move on their own or making them moveable by other players and introducing [[Preventing Goals]]. The pattern is typically used in board games to create [[Capture]] after [[Alignment]] has been achieved.
 Although not directly a goal, the use of [[Line of Sight]] to detect or attack other game elements has much in common with [[Alignment]]. Further, when players can detect [[Enemies]] or other target through other means and need to achieve [[Line of Sight]] to perform certain activities, the two patterns do overlap since gaining [[Line of Sight]] becomes the same as gaining an [[Alignment]] without any [[Obstacles]] in between.
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 [[Line of Sight]]
-[[Game Worlds]] together with [[Game State Overview]]
+[[Game Worlds]] together with [[Game State Overviews]]
 === Can Be Modulated By ===

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 ''The goal of forming a linear alignment of game elements.''

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 [[Alignment]] is a form of [[Configuration]], and offers the possibility of [[Hovering Closures]] by offering players clear visual [[Progress Indicators]] using the Gestalt Law of Closure<ref name="gestalt"/>. [[Alignment]] can be a case of [[Connection]], but does not have to be so, since the game elements involved in the [[Alignment]] do not necessarily need to have [[Connection]] between each other.
-In [[Real-Time Games]] where shots move instantaneously to the target, or the target is stationary, the action of [[Aim & Shoot]] has [[Alignment]] as a goal and typically required [[Timing]]. In other cases, [[Alignment]] is typically a part of [[Puzzle Solving]].
+[[Alignment]] is typically used as a prerequisite for [[Capture]]. In [[Real-Time Games]] where shots move instantaneously to the target, or the target is stationary, the action of [[Aim & Shoot]] has [[Alignment]] as a goal and typically required [[Timing]]. In other cases, [[Alignment]] is typically a part of [[Puzzle Solving]].
 == Relations ==

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 == Acknowledgments ==
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 == References ==

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 == Using the pattern ==
-[[Alignment]] requires a [[Game Worlds|Game World]] that allows spatial arrangements and sufficiently large [[Game State Overview]] for the alignment to be made. The prime challenges that can be designed for [[Alignment]] goals consist of how players can move the necessary game elements into the correct position and how game elements can be removed in order to hinder the completion of the [[Alignment]], which are a type of [[Puzzle Solving]]. The difficulty of the goal can easily be increased by making the game elements move on their own or making them moveable by other players and introducing [[Preventing Goals]].
+[[Alignment]] requires a [[Game Worlds|Game World]] that allows spatial arrangements and sufficiently large [[Game State Overview]] for the alignment to be made. The prime challenges that can be designed for [[Alignment]] goals consist of how players can move the necessary game elements into the correct position and how game elements can be removed in order to hinder the completion of the [[Alignment]], which are a type of [[Puzzle Solving]]. The difficulty of the goal can easily be increased by making the game elements move on their own or making them moveable by other players and introducing [[Preventing Goals]]. The pattern is typically used in board games to create [[Capture]] after [[Alignment]] has been achieved.
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-The pattern is used in many ways in board games to create [[Capture]] after [[Alignment]] has been achieved: Parlett<ref name="Parlett"/> lists Approach, Withdrawal, Intervention, and Custodianship. In approach the piece is captured by moving towards it in a straight line and stopping right next to it - replacement is a specific version of this used in for example [[Chess]]. Withdrawal is, obviously, the reverse of approach: the piece is captured by moving an adjacent piece away from it in a straight line. Intervention involves capturing enemy pieces by moving a piece between them to form a line. The captured piece in custodianship is flanked by friendly pieces in such a way that the pieces form a line, as for example is the case in [[Hnefatafl]] or [[Reversi]] where several pieces can be captured by flanking.
 Although not directly a goal, the use of [[Line of Sight]] to detect or attack other game elements has much in common with [[Alignment]]. Further, when players can detect [[Enemies]] or other target through other means and need to achieve [[Line of Sight]] to perform certain activities, the two patterns do overlap since gaining [[Line of Sight]] becomes the same as gaining an [[Alignment]] without any [[Obstacles]] in between.
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 == Acknowledgments ==
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 == References ==
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 <ref name="gestalt">Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology entry] on gestalt psychology.</ref>
 <ref name="Juul2010">Juul, J. (2010) A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players. MIT Press.</ref>
 <ref name="Tafl">Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafl_games entry] for Tafl games.</ref>
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