Conceal - Revision history

Staffan Björk at 12:48, 1 April 2022

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Staffan Björk at 12:46, 1 April 2022

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Staffan Björk at 09:23, 4 April 2018

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Staffan Björk at 09:22, 4 April 2018

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Staffan Björk at 09:19, 4 April 2018

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 [[Auxiliary Game Screens]],
 [[Enemies]],
 [[Hiding Places]],
-[[Imperfect Information]]
+[[Imperfect Information]],
 [[Avatars]], [[Characters]], or [[Units]] together with [[Vulnerabilities]]
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 === Can Be Modulated By ===
 [[Creative Control]],
 [[Red Herrings]]

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 While [[Conceal]] goals can simply be given as [[Enforced Goals]] to players, many combinations of patterns naturally make players take on implicit [[Conceal Goals]]. [[Enemies]], especially with [[Reconnaissance]] goals, is one example. Others are when the game elements, be they [[Avatars]], [[Characters]], or [[Units]], have [[Achilles' Heels]] or [[Vulnerabilities]] that others can exploit. The latter of these may make players try to hide some game elements while showing (or sacrificing) others. Players with [[Survive]] goals are likely to take on [[Conceal]] goals if possible since this offers one solution to completing the [[Survive]] goals (so [[Conceal]] goals modify the [[Survive]] goals).
-[[Conceal]] goal can be pointless unless somebody is looking for what is hidden; that is, [[Conceal]] goals may only be meaningful if there aren't [[Preventing Goals]], e.g. [[Gain Information]] or [[Gain Ownership]], that are stopped by the [[Conceal]] goal being successful.
+[[Conceal]] goal can be pointless unless somebody is looking for what is hidden; that is, [[Conceal]] goals may only be meaningful if there are [[Preventing Goals]], e.g. [[Gain Information]] or [[Gain Ownership]], that are stopped by the [[Conceal]] goal being successful.
 == Consequences ==

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 ''The goal of trying to hinder other players ability to gain information.''
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 === Examples ===
-The children's game [[Hide-and-Seek]] is the archetypical example of using [[Conceal]] where all children except one try to Conceal their locations. Another archetypical example is [[Battleships]] where players try to place their ships in ways to make it difficult for their opponents to guess where the ships are. An important aspect of the [[Stratego]] is to keep the identity of ones pieces hiding from one's opponent.
+The children's game [[Hide-and-Seek]] is the archetypical example of using [[Conceal]] where all children except one try to Conceal their locations. Another archetypical example is [[Battleships]] where players try to place their ships in ways to make it difficult for their opponents to guess where the ships are. An important aspect of the [[Stratego]] is to keep the identity of one's pieces hiding from one's opponent.
 The game [[Zendo]] allows the master to secretly make a rule for how differently colored pyramids should be arranged to have "Buddha nature", and the goal of the students is to try and extrapolate the rule from experiments.

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 Designing [[Conceal]] goals require two parts: providing players with the possibility of hiding and giving them reasons to hide. What is hidden is typically [[Avatars]], [[Characters]], [[Game Items]], [[Units]], or the players themselves.
-[[Hiding Places]] provides possibilities to hide, so this pattern is a basic component that can be used to create [[Conceal]] goals. More generic, the presence of [[Asymmetric Information]] or [[Imperfect Information]] in a game can allow [[Conceal]] goals as [[Battleships]] and [[Stratego]] show. [[Red Herrings]] can help players with [[Conceal]] goals if the players can create these [[Red Herrings]] as decoys for what they are trying to hide. More generally, [[Creative Control]] can allow players to
+[[Hiding Places]] provides possibilities to hide, so this pattern is a basic component that can be used to create [[Conceal]] goals. More generic, the presence of [[Asymmetric Information]] or [[Imperfect Information]] in a game can allow [[Conceal]] goals as [[Battleships]] and [[Stratego]] show. [[Red Herrings]] can help players with [[Conceal]] goals if the players can create these [[Red Herrings]] as decoys for what they are trying to hide. [[Creative Control]] can more generally support [[Conceal]] goals through allow players to create additional [[Hiding Places]] or [[Red Herrings]]. It can also allow players to make [[Hiding Places]] better. From an interface perspective, [[Auxiliary Game Screens]] can allow players to perform the actual hiding in ways that are less prone to being seen by other players.
 From an interface perspective, [[Auxiliary Game Screens]] can allow players to perform the actual hiding in ways that are less prone to being seen by other players.
 While [[Conceal]] goals can simply be given as [[Enforced Goals]] to players, many combinations of patterns naturally make players take on implicit [[Conceal Goals]]. [[Enemies]], especially with [[Reconnaissance]] goals, is one example. Others are when the game elements, be they [[Avatars]], [[Characters]], or [[Units]], have [[Achilles' Heels]] or [[Vulnerabilities]] that others can exploit. The latter of these may make players try to hide some game elements while showing (or sacrificing) others. Players with [[Survive]] goals are likely to take on [[Conceal]] goals if possible since this offers one solution to completing the [[Survive]] goals (so [[Conceal]] goals modify the [[Survive]] goals).

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 ''The goal of trying to hinder other players ability to gain information.''
-This pattern is a still a stub.
+Having as much information as possible about a game state in a game is usually advantageous. [[Conceal]] is the goal of trying to prevent other players from gaining information about part of the game state. While [[Conceal]] goals are often preventing or hindering other players from finding out the location of the specific game elements or the players themselves the aim of [[Conceal]] goals may also be to keep certain information associated with a game element from other players.
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-Having as much information as possible about the game state is usually advantageous, and Conceal is the goal of trying to prevent other players from gaining information about part of the game state. Conceal is not only about preventing or hindering other players from finding out the location of the goal object; the aim of Conceal may be to keep certain information associated with a game element from the other players.
 === Examples ===

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 == Using the pattern ==
-Designing [[Conceal]] goals require two parts: providing players with the possibility of hiding and giving them reasons to hide. What is hidden is typically [[Avatars]], [[Characters]], [[Item]], [[Units]], or the players themselves.
+Designing [[Conceal]] goals require two parts: providing players with the possibility of hiding and giving them reasons to hide. What is hidden is typically [[Avatars]], [[Characters]], [[Items]], [[Units]], or the players themselves.
 [[Hiding Places]] provides possibilities to hide, so this pattern is a basic component that can be used to create [[Conceal]] goals. More generic, the presence of [[Asymmetric Information]] or [[Imperfect Information]] in a game can allow [[Conceal]] goals as [[Battleships]] and [[Stratego]] show. [[Red Herrings]] can help players with [[Conceal]] goals if the players can create these [[Red Herrings]] as decoys for what they are trying to hide.