Life Penalties - Revision history

Staffan Björk at 13:24, 26 August 2015

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 == Consequences ==
-[[Life Penalties]] are [[Penalties]]. As long as players still have [[Lives]] left, they need to be followed by [[Spawning]] to replace players' [[Focus Loci]] into [[Game Worlds]] (unless the [[Focus Loci]] are non-diegetic of course). Whenever they trigger and players have no more [[Lives]] to lose, they also instantiate [[Game Termination Penalties]] (or else the [[Lives]] pattern do not have its traditional meaning). Risking to lose [[Lives]] makes players feel [[Tension]] and even more so when one only has one [[Lives|Life]] left.
+[[Life Penalties]] are [[Penalties]]. As long as players still have [[Lives]] left, they need to be followed by [[Spawning]] to replace players' [[Focus Loci]] into [[Game Worlds]] (unless the [[Focus Loci]] are non-diegetic of course). Whenever they trigger and players have no more [[Lives]] to lose, they also instantiate [[Game Termination Penalties]] (or else the [[Lives]] pattern do not have its traditional meaning). This also means that [[Life Penalties]] indirectly can cause [[Player Elimination]]. Risking to lose [[Lives]] makes players feel [[Tension]] and even more so when one only has one [[Lives|Life]] left.
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 == Consequences ==
-[[Life Penalties]] are [[Penalties]]. As long as players still have [[Lives]] left, they need to be followed by [[Spawning]] to replace players' [[Focus Loci]] into [[Game Worlds]] (unless the [[Focus Loci]] are non-diegetic of course). Whenever they trigger and players have no more [[Lives]] to lose, they also instantiate [[Game Termination Penalties]] (or else the [[Lives]] do not have the traditional meaning).
+[[Life Penalties]] are [[Penalties]]. As long as players still have [[Lives]] left, they need to be followed by [[Spawning]] to replace players' [[Focus Loci]] into [[Game Worlds]] (unless the [[Focus Loci]] are non-diegetic of course). Whenever they trigger and players have no more [[Lives]] to lose, they also instantiate [[Game Termination Penalties]] (or else the [[Lives]] pattern do not have its traditional meaning). Risking to lose [[Lives]] makes players feel [[Tension]] and even more so when one only has one [[Lives|Life]] left.
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 [[Game Termination Penalties]],
 [[Penalties]],
-[[Spawning]]
+[[Spawning]],
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 [[Life Penalties]] is a specific type of [[Death Consequences]] that is typically used in games with [[Lives]]. [[Fudged Results]] can be used to allow players or others (such as [[Game Masters]]) to remove individual cases of [[Life Penalties]]; if this can be done too often the pattern however in practice removes the possibility of [[Life Penalties]].
 The main design issue with [[Life Penalties]] is if they should be handed out directly as effects of [[Damage]] or if they are the cumulative effects of [[Energy Penalties]].
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 [[Energy Penalties]]
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 ''The penalty in a game of losing a life.''

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-''The one-sentence "definition" that should be in italics.''
+''The penalty in a game of losing a life.''
-This pattern is a still a stub.
+Lives are used in some games to allow players to fail a couple of times before the game session or game instance terminates, i.e. they can fail as long as they have lives left. [[Life Penalties]] are penalties given to players that remove one of these lives and thereby move players closer to having their gameplay end.
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