Negotiable Game Sessions - Revision history

Staffan Björk at 14:47, 19 March 2018

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Staffan Björk at 14:09, 6 July 2015

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Staffan Björk: /* Consequences */

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‎Consequences

Staffan Björk at 18:55, 30 January 2015

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Staffan Björk at 20:54, 17 July 2014

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Staffan Björk at 13:38, 21 June 2014

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Staffan Björk at 11:04, 15 November 2012

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Staffan Björk: /* Acknowledgements */

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‎Acknowledgements

Staffan Björk at 09:14, 24 August 2012

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Staffan Björk at 09:05, 24 August 2012

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 == Consequences ==
-[[Negotiable Game Sessions]] makes [[Unsynchronized Game Sessions]] likely to occur. Like [[Negotiable Play Sessions]], [[Negotiable Game Sessions]] provide one of the needed aspects of both [[Casual Gameplay]] and [[Ubiquitous Gameplay]], and through this [[Social Adaptability]] and [[Player Agency]]. It also shares the consequence with that pattern in that is lowers the risk of [[Early Leaving Players]] (this is only a risk if the game is not designed in other way to compensate for players leaving early).
+[[Negotiable Game Sessions]] makes [[Unsynchronized Game Sessions]] likely to occur. Like [[Negotiable Play Sessions]], [[Negotiable Game Sessions]] provide one of the needed aspects of both [[Casual Gameplay]] and [[Ubiquitous Gameplay]], and through this [[Social Adaptability]] and [[Player Agency]]. It also shares the consequence with that pattern in that is lowers the risk of [[Early Leaving Players]] (this is only a risk if the game is not designed in other way to compensate for players leaving early). It makes players engage in [[Extra-Game Actions]] since they need to discuss how long the game sessions should be.
 == Relations ==
 === Can Instantiate ===
 [[Casual Gameplay]],
 [[Player Agency]],
 [[Social Adaptability]],

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 == Consequences ==
-[[Negotiable Game Sessions]] makes [[Unsynchronized Game Sessions]] likely to occur. Like [[Negotiable Play Sessions]], [[Negotiable Game Sessions]] provide one of the needed aspects of both [[Casual Gameplay]] and [[Ubiquitous Gameplay]], and through this [[Social Adaptability]]. It also shares the consequence with that pattern in that is lowers the risk of [[Early Leaving Players]] (this is only a risk if the game is not designed in other way to compensate for players leaving early).
+[[Negotiable Game Sessions]] makes [[Unsynchronized Game Sessions]] likely to occur. Like [[Negotiable Play Sessions]], [[Negotiable Game Sessions]] provide one of the needed aspects of both [[Casual Gameplay]] and [[Ubiquitous Gameplay]], and through this [[Social Adaptability]] and [[Player Agency]]. It also shares the consequence with that pattern in that is lowers the risk of [[Early Leaving Players]] (this is only a risk if the game is not designed in other way to compensate for players leaving early).
 == Relations ==
 === Can Instantiate ===
 [[Casual Gameplay]],
 [[Social Adaptability]],
 [[Ubiquitous Gameplay]],

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 == Consequences ==
-[[Negotiable Game Sessions]] makes [[Unsynchronized Game Sessions]] likely to occur, Like [[Negotiable Play Sessions]], [[Negotiable Game Sessions]] provide one of the needed aspects of both [[Casual Gameplay]] and [[Ubiquitous Gameplay]], and through this [[Social Adaptability]]. It also shares the consequence with that pattern in that is lowers the risk of [[Early Leaving Players]] (this is only a risk if the game is not designed in other way to compensate for players leaving early).
+[[Negotiable Game Sessions]] makes [[Unsynchronized Game Sessions]] likely to occur. Like [[Negotiable Play Sessions]], [[Negotiable Game Sessions]] provide one of the needed aspects of both [[Casual Gameplay]] and [[Ubiquitous Gameplay]], and through this [[Social Adaptability]]. It also shares the consequence with that pattern in that is lowers the risk of [[Early Leaving Players]] (this is only a risk if the game is not designed in other way to compensate for players leaving early).
 == Relations ==

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 == Consequences ==
-Like [[Negotiable Play Sessions]], [[Negotiable Game Sessions]] provide one of the needed aspects of both [[Casual Gameplay]] and [[Ubiquitous Gameplay]], and through this [[Social Adaptability]]. It also shares the consequence with that pattern in that is lowers the risk of [[Early Leaving Players]] (this is only a risk if the game is not designed in other way to compensate for players leaving early).
+[[Negotiable Game Sessions]] makes [[Unsynchronized Game Sessions]] likely to occur, Like [[Negotiable Play Sessions]], [[Negotiable Game Sessions]] provide one of the needed aspects of both [[Casual Gameplay]] and [[Ubiquitous Gameplay]], and through this [[Social Adaptability]]. It also shares the consequence with that pattern in that is lowers the risk of [[Early Leaving Players]] (this is only a risk if the game is not designed in other way to compensate for players leaving early).
 == Relations ==
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 [[Casual Gameplay]],
 [[Social Adaptability]],
-[[Ubiquitous Gameplay]]
+[[Ubiquitous Gameplay]],
 === Can Modulate ===

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 == Using the pattern ==
-Several factors affect if a game supports [[Negotiable Game Sessions]]. The two first relate to the variety of length of game sessions supported by the game while still providing a meaningful gameplay experience. The minimum amount of time or actions required of a player can be affected by [[Difficulty Levels]] while [[Speed Runs]] make a goal of shortening game sessions but all games have thresholds under which it is difficult to see players being able to have senses of gameplay closure. [[Puzzle Solving]] games with small [[Levels]] where each level can be seen as its own game, e.g. [[Sokoban]], probably have the lowest such thresholds. The maximum length of game sessions can quite easily be raised: [[Sidequests]] does it in discrete amounts while [[Sandbox Gameplay]] opens up for game sessions as long as players can find interesting goals for themselves ([[Replayability]] also provides more context to players but between different game sessions). [[Time Limits]] that are set by players is a way to enforce maximum limits to the game sessions and can in this way help support the pattern.
+Several factors affect if a game supports [[Negotiable Game Sessions]]. The two first relate to the variety of length of game sessions supported by the game while still providing a meaningful gameplay experience. The minimum amount of time or actions required of a player can be affected by [[Difficulty Levels]] while [[Speedruns]] make a goal of shortening game sessions but all games have thresholds under which it is difficult to see players being able to have senses of gameplay closure. [[Puzzle Solving]] games with small [[Levels]] where each level can be seen as its own game, e.g. [[Sokoban]], probably have the lowest such thresholds. The maximum length of game sessions can quite easily be raised: [[Sidequests]] does it in discrete amounts while [[Sandbox Gameplay]] opens up for game sessions as long as players can find interesting goals for themselves ([[Replayability]] also provides more context to players but between different game sessions). [[Time Limits]] that are set by players is a way to enforce maximum limits to the game sessions and can in this way help support the pattern.
 [[Negotiable Play Sessions]] can give rise to [[Negotiable Game Sessions]] when the length of play sessions determine the game session length rather than the overall game session length being static in terms of challenges, [[Levels]], or similar measures (but not turns) and play sessions need to add up to this. For example, [[Chess]] can have [[Negotiable Game Sessions]] since the allowed amount of time for each turn (seen as a play session) can be negotiated.
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 [[Sandbox Gameplay]],
 [[Self-Facilitated Games]],
-[[Speed Runs]],
+[[Speedruns]],
 [[Time Limits]]

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 There is no natural ending point for [[:Category:Tabletop Roleplaying Games|Tabletop Roleplaying Games]] such as [[Dungeons & Dragons]] or [[Call of Cthulhu]] as long as the game master and enough players are willing to continue. This gives these games a weak form of [[Negotiable Game Sessions]].
-[[:Category:Massively Multiplayer Online Games|Massively Multiplayer Online Games]] such as [[World of Warcraft]] and [[Eve Online]] have no winning conditions and continue regardless if exactly which players are logged onto the game. While arriving late or leaving early may cause disruptions for other players, this only affects a small group of players instead of all players, so these games can be said to have [[Negotiable Game Sessions]]. Similarly, [[FarmVille]] and [[Zombie Lane]] only lets players weakly interact with each other and have no enforced winning conditions so players can play them for as long as they wish motivated primarily by the local goals they have.
+[[:Category:Massively Multiplayer Online Games|Massively Multiplayer Online Games]] such as [[World of Warcraft]] and [[Eve Online]] have no winning conditions and continue regardless if exactly which players are logged onto the game. While arriving late or leaving early may cause disruptions for other players, this only affects a small group of players instead of all players, so these games can be said to have [[Negotiable Game Sessions]]. Similarly, [[FarmVille]] and [[Zombie Lane]] only lets players weakly interact with each other and have no enforced winning conditions so players can play them for as long as they wish motivated primarily by the local goals they have. The same applies to mobile games [[Geocaching]] and [[Insectopia]].
 == Using the pattern ==

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 === Examples ===
-[[:Category:Sandbox Games|Sandbox Games]] such as [[Dwarf Fortress]], [[Minecraft]], and [[Sims series]] does not force players to strive towards winning conditions and can for this reason continue to be played for as long as players find them interesting. Even those that have more explicit winning conditions, as for the [[The Elder Scrolls series|Elder Scrolls series]] and the [[Grand Theft Auto series]], have [[Negotiable Game Sessions]] when they let players continue playing after the game is won.
+[[:Category:Sandbox Games|Sandbox Games]] such as [[Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress|Dwarf Fortress]], [[Minecraft]], and [[Sims series]] does not force players to strive towards winning conditions and can for this reason continue to be played for as long as players find them interesting. Even those that have more explicit winning conditions, as for the [[The Elder Scrolls series|Elder Scrolls series]] and the [[Grand Theft Auto series]], have [[Negotiable Game Sessions]] when they let players continue playing after the game is won.
 There is no natural ending point for [[:Category:Tabletop Roleplaying Games|Tabletop Roleplaying Games]] such as [[Dungeons & Dragons]] or [[Call of Cthulhu]] as long as the game master and enough players are willing to continue. This gives these games a weak form of [[Negotiable Game Sessions]].

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 [[Multiplayer Games]] complicates the issue of having [[Negotiable Game Sessions]] since it either requires that all players can - and do - align their game sessions or that the game system supports unsynchronized game sessions. While this makes basic forms of [[Multiplayer Games]] work against the pattern, [[Self-Facilitated Games]] and [[Drop-In/Drop-Out]] respectively show how these requirements can be supported.
 == Consequences ==
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 [[Puzzle Solving]] together with [[Levels]]
-[[Configurable Gameplay Areas]] in games with [[Real World Gameplay Spaces]]
+[[Configurable Gameplay Areas]] in [[Self-Facilitated Games]] with [[Real World Gameplay Spaces]]
 === Can Be Modulated By ===