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Staffan Björk at 08:04, 8 August 2015

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Staffan Björk at 14:42, 15 September 2014

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Staffan Björk at 08:07, 7 September 2014

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Staffan Björk at 18:04, 14 July 2014

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Staffan Björk at 22:29, 6 March 2011

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Staffan Björk at 22:23, 6 March 2011

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Staffan Björk at 22:02, 1 March 2011

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Staffan Björk at 22:00, 1 March 2011

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 ==== with [[Unmediated Social Interaction]] and [[Penalties]] ====
 [[Roleplaying]]
 === Can Modulate ===

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 [[Anonymous Actions]] provides a basis for having [[Player Anonymity]] in games. Since it is more difficult for players to associate actions with players and thereby their strategies in the game, [[Anonymous Actions]] makes games have less [[Predictable Consequences]]. When the construction of [[Anonymous Actions]] do not even let players know which other players are playing this support [[Actor Detachment]].
-In games with [[Unmediated Social Interaction]], players can reveal themselves as the source of [[Anonymous Actions]] unless the take care with what they say and how the show their emotions to events taking place. This may make the pattern difficult to combine with [[Unmediated Social Interaction]] but if [[Penalties]] are linked to revealing oneself (as for examples is the case for [[Traitors]] in games such as [[Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game]] or [[Shadows over Camelot]]) this makes [[Roleplaying]] a prerequisite for [[Game Mastery]].
+In games with [[Unmediated Social Interaction]], players can reveal themselves as the source of [[Anonymous Actions]] unless the take care with what they say and how the show their emotions to events taking place. This may make the pattern difficult to combine with [[Unmediated Social Interaction]] but if [[Penalties]] are linked to revealing oneself (as for examples is the case for [[Traitors]] in games such as [[Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game]] or [[Shadows over Camelot]]) this makes [[Roleplaying]] a prerequisite for [[Gameplay Mastery]].
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 == History ==
-New pattern created in this wiki.
+New pattern created for this wiki by [[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]].
 == References ==

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 A requirement for [[Anonymous Actions]] is that there is an [[Uncertainty of Information]] about which player made an action. A common way of supporting this to have several players performing [[Collaborative Actions]] through placing [[Cards]] or [[Chips]] since then they may unsure about who contributed with which game elements, an example of this can be found in the skill resolution system of [[Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game]]. This can be also be achieved through adding [[Randomness|Random]] actions provided by the game system ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game]] does this also through the ''destiny deck'').
-There are two main reasons for including [[Anonymous Actions]] in games. One is making [[Player-Decided Results]] be based solely on an action (e.g. which card on played in [[Apples to Apples]]) rather than the players' relative positions. Another is to allow [[Betrayal|Betrayals]] to go unnoticed or possibly repeated, and can also allow [[Traitors]] to not only have to work through [[Stealth]].
+There are two main reasons for including [[Anonymous Actions]] in games. One is making [[Player-Decided Results]] be based solely on an action (e.g. which card on played in [[Apples to Apples]]) rather than the players' relative positions. Another is to allow [[Betrayal|Betrayals]] to go unnoticed or possibly repeated, and can also allow [[Traitors]] to not only have to work through [[Stealth]]. Whenever the actions originated from specific game elements, [[Anonymous Actions]] can be seen as a way of modifying [[Abilities]].
 === Interface Aspects ===
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 === Can Modulate ===
 [[Betrayal]],
 [[Player-Decided Results]],

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 == Consequences ==
-Since it is more difficult for players to associate actions with players and thereby their strategies in the game, [[Anonymous Actions]] makes games have less [[Predictable Consequences]]. When the construction of [[Anonymous Actions]] do not even let players know which other players are playing this support [[Actor Detachment]].
+[[Anonymous Actions]] provides a basis for having [[Player Anonymity]] in games. Since it is more difficult for players to associate actions with players and thereby their strategies in the game, [[Anonymous Actions]] makes games have less [[Predictable Consequences]]. When the construction of [[Anonymous Actions]] do not even let players know which other players are playing this support [[Actor Detachment]].
 In games with [[Unmediated Social Interaction]], players can reveal themselves as the source of [[Anonymous Actions]] unless the take care with what they say and how the show their emotions to events taking place. This may make the pattern difficult to combine with [[Unmediated Social Interaction]] but if [[Penalties]] are linked to revealing oneself (as for examples is the case for [[Traitors]] in games such as [[Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game]] or [[Shadows over Camelot]]) this makes [[Roleplaying]] a prerequisite for [[Game Mastery]].
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 == Relations ==
 === Can Instantiate ===
-[[Actor Detachment]]
+[[Actor Detachment]],
 ==== with [[Unmediated Social Interaction]] and [[Penalties]] ====

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 ''Actions that cannot be unconditionally linked to a specific player.''

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 ''Actions that cannot be unconditionally linked to a specific player.''
+Performing actions in games are done to further players' plans and ambitions. However, it may be counterproductive for others to know about these actions sometimes either because they reveal the plans or that it makes other players make use of more information that is intended. For these cases this can be resolved by making the actions into [[Anonymous Actions]].
-This pattern is a still a stub.
 === Examples ===