Bookkeeping Tokens - Revision history

Staffan Björk: /* Examples */

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‎Examples

Staffan Björk at 07:57, 26 August 2011

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Staffan Björk: /* Can Be Instantiated By */

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‎Can Be Instantiated By

Staffan Björk at 10:57, 6 August 2011

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Staffan Björk: /* Relations */

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‎Relations

Staffan Björk: /* Consequences */

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‎Consequences

Staffan Björk: /* Can Modulate */

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‎Can Modulate

Staffan Björk: /* Using the pattern */

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‎Using the pattern

Staffan Björk at 12:51, 4 August 2011

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Staffan Björk at 09:12, 27 June 2011

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 [[Puerto Rico]] has the role of governor that is passed among players. To help players keep track of their roles a small governor card is past to the player who currently is the governor. Given that players of [[Carolus Magnus]] have a turn order based upon which ''turn discs'' they have played rather the way they physically sit around the game board, the game provides [[Bookkeeping Tokens]] to help players keep track of this order.
-Many games, e.g. [[Amun-Re]], [[Balderdash]], [[Caylus]], [[Inca Empire]], and [[Pictionary]], make use of score tracks so that players know the current positions of each other. Both [[Egizia]] and [[Ursuppe]] also have score tracks but in these cases they are also used to determine turn order. [[Puerto Rico]] and [[Race for the Galaxy]] are instead examples of games that make use of chips as [[Bookkeeping Tokens]] to keep track of victory points.
+Many games, e.g. [[Amun-Re]], [[Balderdash]], [[Caylus]], [[Inca Empire]], and [[Pictionary]], make use of score tracks so that players know the current positions of each other. Both [[Egizia]] and [[Ursuppe]] also have score tracks but in these cases they are also used to determine turn order. [[Puerto Rico]] and [[Race for the Galaxy]] are instead examples of games that make use of chips as [[Bookkeeping Tokens]] to keep track of victory points. [[Caverna: The Cave Farmers]] have "modifying" [[Bookkeeping Tokens]] in addition to ordinary ones, letting a token that represents a specific resource instead represent several through placing them on tokens that state "*4" or "*8".
 [[Agricola]] and [[Stone Age]] are examples of board games that have many types of [[Bookkeeping Tokens]] to keep track of which resources players have. [[Origins: How We Became Human]] provides each player with a limit number of [[Bookkeeping Tokens]] that are used for many different purposes, e.g. as units on the game board, or levels of elders and innovation in civilizations. [[High Frontier]] does the same, but in this case for rockets, bases, factories, and claiming glory sites. In contrast, the board game [[Android]] makes use of many different types of tokens to keep track of both the overall and individual players' stories.

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 == Using the pattern ==
-The values of the game state that need to be kept track of dictate most of the design requirements of [[Bookkeeping Tokens]]. This may be to handle [[Resources]] such as [[Extra Chances]] or [[Money]], to keep track of [[Attributes]] and [[Skills]] including when players receive [[New Abilities|New]] or [[Improved Abilities]], to keep track of [[Victory Points]] through individual [[Chips]] or by being placed on [[Score Tracks]], to let players set up their [[Action Programming]], or to help players keep track of [[Turn Taking]] through [[First Player Tokens]] and [[Current Player Tokens]]. However, game designers have the option of making the [[Bookkeeping Tokens]] provide players with [[Imperfect Information]], typically through [[Cards]] or [[Chips]], or [[Public Information]].
+The values of the game state that need to be kept track of dictate most of the design requirements of [[Bookkeeping Tokens]]. This may be to handle [[Resources]] such as [[Extra Chances]] or [[Money]], to keep track of [[Attributes]] and [[Skills]] including when players receive [[New Abilities|New]] or [[Improved Abilities]], to keep track of [[Victory Points]] through individual [[Chips]] or by being placed on [[Score Tracks]], to let players set up their [[Action Programming]], or to help players keep track of [[Turn Taking]] through [[First Player Tokens]] and [[Current Player Tokens]]. However, game designers have the option of making the [[Bookkeeping Tokens]] provide players with [[Public Information]] or [[Imperfect Information]], typically through [[Cards]], [[Chips]], or [[Tiles]].
 Another, less common but found for example in [[Origins: How We Became Human]] and [[High Frontier]], option is to use [[Bookkeeping Tokens]] for many different values in game states which players can affect, and thereby making them into [[Limited Resources]].
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 [[Chips]],
 [[Current Player Tokens]],
-[[First Player Tokens]]
+[[First Player Tokens]],
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 === Can Be Instantiated By ===
 [[Current Player Tokens]],
 [[First Player Tokens]]

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 == Consequences ==
-[[Bookkeeping Tokens]] are [[Tokens]] that can help players run [[Self-Facilitated Games]] by upholding the game states instead of [[Memorizing]] them, e.g. by being [[Resources]] such as [[Extra Chances]], [[Money]], and [[Victory Points]] or letting player commit their [[Action Programming]]. This can also encourage [[Stimulated Planning]] and provide [[Cognitive Engrossment]]; if the tokens provide [[Public Information|Public]] or semi-public information these patterns are even stronger present since players have a [[Game State Overview]]. However, they require players to do [[Extra-Game Actions]] in the form of [[Excise]] that resemble [[Resource Management]] but without any [[Freedom of Choice]]. Since this requires [[Attention Swapping]], all kinds of [[Engrossment]] can be negatively affected (except [[Cognitive Engrossment]]).
+[[Bookkeeping Tokens]] are [[Tokens]] that can help players run [[Self-Facilitated Games]] by upholding the game states instead of [[Memorizing]] them, e.g. by being [[Resources]] such as [[Extra Chances]], [[Money]], and [[Victory Points]] or letting player commit their [[Action Programming]]. This can also encourage [[Stimulated Planning]] and provide [[Cognitive Engrossment]]; if the tokens provide [[Public Information|Public]] or semi-public information these patterns are even stronger present since players have [[Game State Overviews]]. However, they require players to do [[Extra-Game Actions]] in the form of [[Excise]] that resemble [[Resource Management]] but without any [[Freedom of Choice]]. Since this requires [[Attention Swapping]], all kinds of [[Engrossment]] can be negatively affected (except [[Cognitive Engrossment]]).
 [[Bookkeeping Tokens]] present in [[Game Worlds]] are [[Geospatial Game Widgets]] since they do not represent diegetic elements. Regardless, they can be the [[Focus Loci]] of players' actions either through indicating that an action has been done or by giving [[New Abilities]] to affect the [[Game Worlds]].
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 ==== with [[Public Information]] ====
-[[Game State Overview]]
+[[Game State Overviews]]
 === Can Modulate ===

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 [[New Abilities]],
 [[Tokens]]
 ==== with [[Public Information]] ====

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 [[Bookkeeping Tokens]] are [[Tokens]] that can help players run [[Self-Facilitated Games]] by upholding the game states instead of [[Memorizing]] them, e.g. by being [[Resources]] such as [[Extra Chances]], [[Money]], and [[Victory Points]] or letting player commit their [[Action Programming]]. This can also encourage [[Stimulated Planning]] and provide [[Cognitive Engrossment]]; if the tokens provide [[Public Information|Public]] or semi-public information these patterns are even stronger present since players have a [[Game State Overview]]. However, they require players to do [[Extra-Game Actions]] in the form of [[Excise]] that resemble [[Resource Management]] but without any [[Freedom of Choice]]. Since this requires [[Attention Swapping]], all kinds of [[Engrossment]] can be negatively affected (except [[Cognitive Engrossment]]).
-[[Bookkeeping Tokens]] present in [[Game Worlds]] are [[Geospatial Game Widgets]] since they do not represent diegetic elements. Regardless, they can be the [[Focus Loci]] of players' actions.
+[[Bookkeeping Tokens]] present in [[Game Worlds]] are [[Geospatial Game Widgets]] since they do not represent diegetic elements. Regardless, they can be the [[Focus Loci]] of players' actions either through indicating that an action has been done or by giving [[New Abilities]] to affect the [[Game Worlds]].
 When [[Bookkeeping Tokens]] are used to provide [[Resource Caps]] they do limit [[Excise]].

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 === Can Modulate ===
 [[Action Programming]],
 [[Memorizing]],
 [[Money]],
 [[Resources]],
 [[Self-Facilitated Games]],
 [[Stimulated Planning]],
 [[Turn Taking]],

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 [[Focus Loci]],
 [[Geospatial Game Widgets]],
 [[Limited Resources]],
 [[Tokens]]
 ==== with [[Public Information]] ====