Pick-Ups - Revision history

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‎Can Instantiate

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 === Can Modulate ===
 [[Abstract Player Constructs]],
 [[Armor]],
 [[Characters]],

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 == Relations ==
 === Can Instantiate ===
 [[Clickability]],
 [[Collections]],

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 == Consequences ==
-[[Pick-Ups]] are either [[Resources]] and then provide [[Resource Locations]], or they are [[Resource Sources]] which provide opportunities to get the [[Resources]] without actually being them themselves. [[Pick-Ups]] are typically very limited in whatever sense they are used since they often only represent one or a few instances of something. [[Pick-Ups]] are a common way to provide [[Renewable Resources]] to players in the form of [[Game Items]], e.g. to let them acquire [[Ammunition]], [[Armor]], or [[Health]]. When the [[Resources]] collected in this way are needed for completing goals, the [[Collecting]] of the [[Pick-Ups]] become [[Supporting Goals]] which encourages [[Game World Exploration]] and [[Movement]], and possibly [[Maneuvering]], in [[Game Boards]], [[Game Worlds]], and [[Levels]]. When [[Pick-Ups]] require extra time or resources - and especially if their content is not known in advantage - the decision to try and acquire one is one of [[Risk/Reward]]. [[Pick-Ups]] do often have high levels of [[Clickability]] if they need to be activated to be picked up.
+[[Pick-Ups]] are either [[Resources]] and then provide [[Resource Locations]], or they are [[Resource Sources]] which provide opportunities to get the [[Resources]] without actually being them themselves. [[Pick-Ups]] are typically very limited in whatever sense they are used since they often only represent one or a few instances of something. [[Pick-Ups]] are a common way to provide [[Renewable Resources]] to players in the form of [[Game Items]], e.g. to let them acquire [[Ammunition]], [[Armor]], or [[Health]]. When the [[Resources]] collected in this way are needed for completing goals, the [[Collecting]] through [[Maneuvering]] of the [[Pick-Ups]] become [[Supporting Goals]] which encourages [[Game World Exploration]] and [[Movement]], in [[Game Boards]], [[Game Worlds]], and [[Levels]]. When [[Pick-Ups]] require extra time or resources - and especially if their content is not known in advantage - the decision to try and acquire one is one of [[Risk/Reward]]. [[Pick-Ups]] do often have high levels of [[Clickability]] if they need to be activated to be picked up.
 As [[Pac-Man]] shows, [[Pick-Ups]] make clear goal objectives for [[Gain Ownership]] goals since they are usually easy to distinguish by having [[Diegetically Outstanding Features]] and successfully [[Collecting]] them have clear effects on [[Game Boards]], [[Game Worlds]], and [[Levels]]. For this reason also, the absence of [[Pick-Ups]] from a location can form [[Traces]] that players can use to infer previous activities in the game.
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 === Can Instantiate ===
 [[Clickability]],
 [[Collections]],
 [[Game World Exploration]],
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 [[Supporting Goals]],
 [[Traces]]
 === Can Modulate ===

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 [[Pick-Ups]] can modify [[Deliver]] goals in the sense that they can put a requirement on players to first need to get [[Game Items]] before delivering them.
-While [[Pick-Ups]] are likely to give players intrinsic motivation of engaging in [[Collecting]], this can be formalized into explicit [[Collections]] goals, e.g. having to get all the ''pills'' in [[Pac-Man]] to complete a [[Levels|Level]].
+While [[Pick-Ups]] are likely to give players intrinsic motivation of engaging in [[Collecting]] through [[Maneuvering]], this can be formalized into explicit [[Collections]] goals, e.g. having to get all the ''pills'' in [[Pac-Man]] to complete a [[Levels|Level]].
 [[Pick-Ups]] are usually designed so players acquire them through gameplay, but an additional option is to let them be acquired through [[Pay to Play]].

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 An option for [[Pick-Ups]] is to only have them appear as [[Game Items]] until they are retrieved, after which they lose their identity as individual objects and increase some numerical representation in [[Abstract Player Constructs]], [[Characters]], or [[Inventories]] (for the last case, this means that [[Pick-Ups]] modulates [[Inventories]] rather than the other way around). When used as such, [[Pick-Ups]] are in essence localized sources for [[Non-Localized Resources]] and common examples of [[Resources]] available through this design solution include [[Ammunition]], [[Armor]], and [[Health]] (energy and [[Experience Points]] are less common but found in [[Zombie Lane]] and [[Ravenwood Fair]]). Similarly, even though any type of [[Game Items]] may have new instances introduced into games through [[Game Element Insertion]], this is more often used for non-unique [[Pick-Ups]].
 While [[Pick-Ups]] are likely to give players intrinsic motivation of engaging in [[Collecting]], this can be formalized into explicit [[Collections]] goals, e.g. having to get all the ''pills'' in [[Pac-Man]] to complete a [[Levels|Level]].
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 [[Armor]],
 [[Characters]],
 [[Experience Points]],
 [[Game Boards]],

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 == Consequences ==
-[[Pick-Ups]] are [[Resource Locations]], typically very limited ones since they often only represent one or a few instances of something. [[Pick-Ups]] are a common way to provide [[Renewable Resources]] to players in the form of [[Game Items]], e.g. to let them acquire [[Ammunition]], [[Armor]], or [[Health]]. When the [[Resources]] collected in this way are needed for completing goals, the [[Collecting]] of the [[Pick-Ups]] become [[Supporting Goals]] which encourages [[Game World Exploration]] and [[Movement]], and possibly [[Maneuvering]], in [[Game Worlds]] and [[Levels]]. When [[Pick-Ups]] require extra time or resources - and especially if their content is not known in advantage - the decision to try and acquire one is one of [[Risk/Reward]]. [[Pick-Ups]] do often have high levels of [[Clickability]] if they need to be activated to be picked up.
+[[Pick-Ups]] are either [[Resources]] and then provide [[Resource Locations]], or they are [[Resource Sources]] which provide opportunities to get the [[Resources]] without actually being them themselves. [[Pick-Ups]] are typically very limited in whatever sense they are used since they often only represent one or a few instances of something. [[Pick-Ups]] are a common way to provide [[Renewable Resources]] to players in the form of [[Game Items]], e.g. to let them acquire [[Ammunition]], [[Armor]], or [[Health]]. When the [[Resources]] collected in this way are needed for completing goals, the [[Collecting]] of the [[Pick-Ups]] become [[Supporting Goals]] which encourages [[Game World Exploration]] and [[Movement]], and possibly [[Maneuvering]], in [[Game Worlds]] and [[Levels]]. When [[Pick-Ups]] require extra time or resources - and especially if their content is not known in advantage - the decision to try and acquire one is one of [[Risk/Reward]]. [[Pick-Ups]] do often have high levels of [[Clickability]] if they need to be activated to be picked up.
 As [[Pac-Man]] shows, [[Pick-Ups]] make clear goal objectives for [[Gain Ownership]] goals since they are usually easy to distinguish by having [[Diegetically Outstanding Features]] and successfully [[Collecting]] them have clear effects on [[Game Worlds]] and [[Levels]]. For this reason also, the absence of [[Pick-Ups]] from a location can form [[Traces]] that players can use to infer previous activities in the game.
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 [[Gain Ownership]],
 [[Resource Locations]],
 [[Renewable Resources]],
 [[Risk/Reward]],