Enforced Player Anonymity - Revision history

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Staffan Björk at 19:59, 15 March 2011

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 == Using the pattern ==
-Enforcing anonymity primarily makes sense in [[Multiplayer Games]] but perceivably it could also apply to [[High Score Lists]]. For [[Multiplayer Games]], the design of [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] is mainly about restricting information flow between players through the use [[Mediated Gameplay]]. This means avoiding [[Unmediated Social Interaction]], restricting how [[Handles]] and other game elements that can identify players, and if [[Communication Channels]] such as [[Chat Channels]] are to be allowed at all they need to be restricted in some way, for example through [[Canned Text Responses]].
+Enforcing anonymity primarily makes sense in [[Multiplayer Games]] but perceivably it could also apply to [[High Score Lists]]. For [[Multiplayer Games]], the design of [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] is mainly about restricting information flow between players through the use [[Mediated Gameplay]]. This means avoiding [[Friend Lists]] and [[Unmediated Social Interaction]], restricting how [[Handles]] and other game elements that can identify players, and if [[Communication Channels]] such as [[Chat Channels]] are to be allowed at all they need to be restricted in some way, for example through [[Canned Text Responses]].
 When [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] is used to avoid unwanted [[Extra-Game Consequences]] in the form of players revealing to much about themselves to strangers, as in [[Disney's Toontown Online]], this may be wavered for players that can identify to the system that they know each other. [[Disney's Toontown Online]] does this through allowing players to become ''True Friends'' through exchanging six-digit secret code that have to be passed outside the game system - such information is in practice [[Trans-Game Information]].
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 [[Communication Channels]],
 [[Extra-Game Consequences]],
 [[Handles]],
 [[Possibility of Anonymity]],

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 == Consequences ==
-[[Enforced Player Anonymity]] makes it difficult for players to judge other players based on other things than how the play. This supports [[Actor Detachment]] and can make it difficult for [[Social Roles]] to emerge during gameplay.
+[[Enforced Player Anonymity]] quite naturally creates [[Player Anonymity]] but at the same time makes it difficult for players to judge other players based on other things than how the play. This supports [[Actor Detachment]] and can make it difficult for [[Social Roles]] to emerge during gameplay.
 Per its definition, [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] works against the choice aspects of [[Possibility of Anonymity]]. [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] adds [[Uncertainty of Information]] to [[Collaborative Actions]] and [[Social Dilemmas]]. It also makes it much less likely that [[Extra-Game Consequences]] can occur.
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 === Can Instantiate ===
 [[Actor Detachment]],
 [[Uncertainty of Information]]

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 == Consequences ==
-[[Enforced Player Anonymity]] makes it difficult for players to judge other players based on other things than how the play. This supports [[Actor Detachment]].
+[[Enforced Player Anonymity]] makes it difficult for players to judge other players based on other things than how the play. This supports [[Actor Detachment]] and can make it difficult for [[Social Roles]] to emerge during gameplay.
 Per its definition, [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] works against the choice aspects of [[Possibility of Anonymity]]. [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] adds [[Uncertainty of Information]] to [[Collaborative Actions]] and [[Social Dilemmas]]. It also makes it much less likely that [[Extra-Game Consequences]] can occur.
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 [[Handles]],
 [[Possibility of Anonymity]],
 [[Unmediated Social Interaction]]

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 == Consequences ==
 Per its definition, [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] works against the choice aspects of [[Possibility of Anonymity]]. [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] adds [[Uncertainty of Information]] to [[Collaborative Actions]] and [[Social Dilemmas]]. It also makes it much less likely that [[Extra-Game Consequences]] can occur.
 == Relations ==
 === Can Instantiate ===
 [[Uncertainty of Information]]

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 [[Category:Patterns]]
 [[Category:Information Patterns]]
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 == Consequences ==
-[[Enforced Player Anonymity]] adds [[Uncertainty of Information]] to [[Collaborative Actions]] and [[Social Dilemmas]]. It also makes it much less likely that [[Extra-Game Consequences]] can occur.
+Per its definition, [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] works against the choice aspects of [[Possibility of Anonymity]]. [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] adds [[Uncertainty of Information]] to [[Collaborative Actions]] and [[Social Dilemmas]]. It also makes it much less likely that [[Extra-Game Consequences]] can occur.
 == Relations ==
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 [[Extra-Game Consequences]],
 [[Handles]],
 [[Unmediated Social Interaction]]

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 == Using the pattern ==
-Enforcing anonymity primarily makes sense in [[Multiplayer Games]] but perceivably it could also apply to [[High Score Lists]]. For [[Multiplayer Games]], the design of [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] is mainly about restricting information flow between players through the use [[Mediated Gameplay]]. This means avoiding [[Unmediated Social Interaction]], restricting how [[Handles]] and other game elements that can identify players, and if [[Communication Channels]] such as [[Chat Forums]] are to be allowed at all they need to be restricted in some way, for example through [[Canned Text Responses]].
+Enforcing anonymity primarily makes sense in [[Multiplayer Games]] but perceivably it could also apply to [[High Score Lists]]. For [[Multiplayer Games]], the design of [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] is mainly about restricting information flow between players through the use [[Mediated Gameplay]]. This means avoiding [[Unmediated Social Interaction]], restricting how [[Handles]] and other game elements that can identify players, and if [[Communication Channels]] such as [[Chat Channels]] are to be allowed at all they need to be restricted in some way, for example through [[Canned Text Responses]].
 When [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] is used to avoid unwanted [[Extra-Game Consequences]] in the form of players revealing to much about themselves to strangers, as in [[Disney's Toontown Online]], this may be wavered for players that can identify to the system that they know each other. [[Disney's Toontown Online]] does this through allowing players to become ''True Friends'' through exchanging six-digit secret code that have to be passed outside the game system - such information is in practice [[Trans-Game Information]].
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 === Potentially Conflicting With ===
-[[Chat Forums]],
+[[Chat Channels]],
 [[Communication Channels]],
 [[Extra-Game Consequences]],

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 The [[ESP Game]] uses players' input to tag picture with descriptive words. In order for players not to be able to ''game'' the system by communicating through other channels and simply coordinating their input, the game matches players so they are unlikely to be in the same larger geographical areas - or through letting players to together with replays of other players' actions.
-Aiming at a young audience, [[Disney's ToonTown Online]] has restrictions on what names can be chosen and what words can be used in the in-game chat system.
+Aiming at a young audience, [[Disney's Toontown Online]] has restrictions on what names can be chosen and what words can be used in the in-game chat system.
 == Using the pattern ==
 Enforcing anonymity primarily makes sense in [[Multiplayer Games]] but perceivably it could also apply to [[High Score Lists]]. For [[Multiplayer Games]], the design of [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] is mainly about restricting information flow between players through the use [[Mediated Gameplay]]. This means avoiding [[Unmediated Social Interaction]], restricting how [[Handles]] and other game elements that can identify players, and if [[Communication Channels]] such as [[Chat Forums]] are to be allowed at all they need to be restricted in some way, for example through [[Canned Text Responses]].
-When [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] is used to avoid unwanted [[Extra-Game Consequences]] in the form of players revealing to much about themselves to strangers, as in [[Disney's ToonTown Online]], this may be wavered for players that can identify to the system that they know each other. [[Disney's ToonTown Online]] does this through allowing players to become ''True Friends'' through exchanging six-digit secret code that have to be passed outside the game system - such information is in practice [[Trans-Game Information]].
+When [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] is used to avoid unwanted [[Extra-Game Consequences]] in the form of players revealing to much about themselves to strangers, as in [[Disney's Toontown Online]], this may be wavered for players that can identify to the system that they know each other. [[Disney's Toontown Online]] does this through allowing players to become ''True Friends'' through exchanging six-digit secret code that have to be passed outside the game system - such information is in practice [[Trans-Game Information]].
 === Interface Aspects ===

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 == Using the pattern ==
-Enforcing anonymity primarily makes sense in [[Multiplayer Games]] but perceivably it could also apply to [[High Score Lists]]. For [[Multiplayer Games]], the design of [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] is mainly about restricting information flow between players through the use of [[Dedicated Game Facilitators]]. This means avoiding [[Unmediated Social Interaction]], restricting how [[Handles]] and other game elements that can identify players, and if [[Communication Channels]] such as [[Chat Forums]] are to be allowed at all they need to be restricted in some way, for example through [[Canned Text Responses]].
+Enforcing anonymity primarily makes sense in [[Multiplayer Games]] but perceivably it could also apply to [[High Score Lists]]. For [[Multiplayer Games]], the design of [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] is mainly about restricting information flow between players through the use of [[Communication Channels]]. This means avoiding [[Unmediated Social Interaction]], restricting how [[Handles]] and other game elements that can identify players, and if [[Communication Channels]] such as [[Chat Forums]] are to be allowed at all they need to be restricted in some way, for example through [[Canned Text Responses]].
 When [[Enforced Player Anonymity]] is used to avoid unwanted [[Extra-Game Consequences]] in the form of players revealing to much about themselves to strangers, as in [[Disney's ToonTown Online]], this may be wavered for players that can identify to the system that they know each other. [[Disney's ToonTown Online]] does this through allowing players to become ''True Friends'' through exchanging six-digit secret code that have to be passed outside the game system - such information is in practice [[Trans-Game Information]].
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 === Can Be Instantiated By ===
-[[Dedicated Game Facilitators]]
+[[Communication Channels]]
 === Can Be Modulated By ===