Steadily Decreasing Resources - Revision history

Staffan Björk: /* Consequences */

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Staffan Björk: /* Consequences */

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Staffan Björk: /* Examples */

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Staffan Björk at 14:23, 14 November 2011

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 == Consequences ==
-[[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] can be a way to enforce [[Limited Resources]] in a game or be a way to modulate that pattern if it already exists. It can also lead to [[Limited Gameplay Time]] since the consumption of the [[Resources]] forces games to an end state at a speed equal to the decrease. [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] affecting the specific [[Resources]] needed for [[Survive]] goals make games into [[Unwinnable Games]].
+[[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] can be a way to enforce [[Limited Resources]] in a game or be a way to modulate that pattern if it already exists. It can also lead to [[Limited Gameplay Time]] since the consumption of the [[Resources]] forces games to an end state at a speed equal to the decrease. [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] affecting the specific [[Resources]] needed for [[Survive]] goals make games into [[Unwinnable Games]]. [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] can also give rise to [[Unwinnable Games]] simply if the demand for the [[Resources]] is unlimited.
 The presence of the pattern is likely to make each use of an affected [[Resources|Resource]] into an [[Investments|Investment]] and create [[Entrenching Gameplay]] since options of using the [[Resources]] also disappear as the [[Resources]] do. As long as players can compete over the [[Resources]], the pattern is even more likely than [[Limited Resources]] to create [[Conflicts]].
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-[[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] can give rise to [[Unwinnable Games]] simply if the demand for the [[Resources]] is unlimited.
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 == Consequences ==
-[[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] can be a way to enforce [[Limited Resources]] in a game or be a way to modulate that pattern if it already exists. It can also lead to [[Limited Gameplay Time]] since the consumption of the [[Resources]] forces games to an end state at a speed equal to the decrease. It is likely to make each use of a [[Resources|Resource]] into an [[Investments|Investment]] and create [[Entrenching Gameplay]] since options of using the [[Resources]] also disappear as the [[Resources]] do. As long as players can compete over the [[Resources]], the pattern is even more likely than [[Limited Resources]] to create [[Conflicts]].
+[[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] can be a way to enforce [[Limited Resources]] in a game or be a way to modulate that pattern if it already exists. It can also lead to [[Limited Gameplay Time]] since the consumption of the [[Resources]] forces games to an end state at a speed equal to the decrease. [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] affecting the specific [[Resources]] needed for [[Survive]] goals make games into [[Unwinnable Games]].
 [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] can give rise to [[Unwinnable Games]] simply if the demand for the [[Resources]] is unlimited.
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 [[Limited Resources]],
 [[Resources]],
 [[Victory Points]]

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 == Using the pattern ==
-[[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] is, quite obviously, a way of restricting [[Resources]] during game instances. This depends on two factors. First, that the game system does not allow ways of introducing new [[Resources]] during games, so e.g. [[Resource Generators]] and [[Spawning]] can remove the presence of the pattern from a game ([[Converters]] may work as long as the material being converted is a [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]]). Second, players must have some need to use or consume the [[Resources]]. This can be enforce by making it part of player actions (as in "normal" situations in [[Go]]) or by "bribing" players to do this by having [[Victory Points]] as the  [[Resources]] used. Some games have [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] even if not all actions require use of [[Resources]] if over time one can guarantee that they will be used up or the game will end. The typical way of doing this is through having some form of [[Limited Repeats]]: in [[Go]] the ''Ko'' rule ensures this while the ''threefold repetition''<ref name="threefold"/> rule does so in [[Chess]] (and some other strategy games).
+[[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] is, quite obviously, a way of restricting [[Resources]] during game instances. This depends on two factors. First, that the game system does not allow ways of introducing new [[Resources]] during games, so e.g., [[Resource Generators]] and [[Spawning]] can remove the presence of the pattern from a game ([[Converters]] may work as long as the material being converted is a [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]]). Second, players must have some need to use or consume the [[Resources]]. This can be enforced by making it part of player actions (as in "normal" situations in [[Go]]) or by "bribing" players to do this by having [[Victory Points]] as the  [[Resources]] used. Some games have [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] even if not all actions require use of [[Resources]] if over time one can guarantee that they will be used up or the game will end. The typical way of doing this is through having some form of [[Limited Repeats]]: in [[Go]] the ''Ko'' rule ensures this while the ''threefold repetition''<ref name="threefold"/> rule does so in [[Chess]] (and some other strategy games).
 == Consequences ==
-[[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] can be a way to enforce [[Limited Resources]] in a game, or be a way to modulate that pattern if it already exists. It can also lead to [[Limited Gameplay Time]] since the consumption of the [[Resources]] forces games to an end state at a speed equal to the decrease. It is likely to make each use of a [[Resources|Resource]] into an [[Investments|Investment]], and create [[Entrenching Gameplay]] since options of using the [[Resources]] also disappear as the [[Resources]] do. As long as players can compete over the [[Resources]], the pattern is even more likely than [[Limited Resources]] to create [[Conflicts]].
+[[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] can be a way to enforce [[Limited Resources]] in a game or be a way to modulate that pattern if it already exists. It can also lead to [[Limited Gameplay Time]] since the consumption of the [[Resources]] forces games to an end state at a speed equal to the decrease. It is likely to make each use of a [[Resources|Resource]] into an [[Investments|Investment]] and create [[Entrenching Gameplay]] since options of using the [[Resources]] also disappear as the [[Resources]] do. As long as players can compete over the [[Resources]], the pattern is even more likely than [[Limited Resources]] to create [[Conflicts]].
 [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] can give rise to [[Unwinnable Games]] simply if the demand for the [[Resources]] is unlimited.

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 == Consequences ==
-[[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] can be a way to enforce [[Limited Resources]] in a game, or be a way to modulate that pattern if it already exists.
+[[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] can be a way to enforce [[Limited Resources]] in a game, or be a way to modulate that pattern if it already exists. It can also lead to [[Limited Gameplay Time]] since the consumption of the [[Resources]] forces games to an end state at a speed equal to the decrease. It is likely to make each use of a [[Resources|Resource]] into an [[Investments|Investment]], and create [[Entrenching Gameplay]] since options of using the [[Resources]] also disappear as the [[Resources]] do. As long as players can compete over the [[Resources]], the pattern is even more likely than [[Limited Resources]] to create [[Conflicts]].
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-[[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] lead to [[Limited Gameplay Time]] since the consumption of the [[Resources]] forces games to an end state at a speed equal to the decrease. It is likely to make each use of a [[Resources|Resource]] into an [[Investments|Investment]], and create [[Entrenching Gameplay]] since options of using the [[Resources]] also disappear as the [[Resources]] do. As long as players can compete over the [[Resources]], the pattern is even more likely than [[Limited Resources]] to create [[Conflicts]].
 [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] can give rise to [[Unwinnable Games]] simply if the demand for the [[Resources]] is unlimited.

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 == Using the pattern ==
-[[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] is, quite obviously, a way of restricting [[Resources]] during game instances. This depends on two factors.
+[[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] is, quite obviously, a way of restricting [[Resources]] during game instances. This depends on two factors. First, that the game system does not allow ways of introducing new [[Resources]] during games, so e.g. [[Resource Generators]] and [[Spawning]] can remove the presence of the pattern from a game ([[Converters]] may work as long as the material being converted is a [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]]). Second, players must have some need to use or consume the [[Resources]]. This can be enforce by making it part of player actions (as in "normal" situations in [[Go]]) or by "bribing" players to do this by having [[Victory Points]] as the  [[Resources]] used. Some games have [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] even if not all actions require use of [[Resources]] if over time one can guarantee that they will be used up or the game will end. The typical way of doing this is through having some form of [[Limited Repeats]]: in [[Go]] the ''Ko'' rule ensures this while the ''threefold repetition''<ref name="threefold"/> rule does so in [[Chess]] (and some other strategy games).
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 First, that the game system does not allow ways of introducing new [[Resources]] during games, so e.g. [[Resource Generators]] and [[Spawning]] can remove the presence of the pattern from a game ([[Converters]] may work as long as the material being converted is a [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]]).
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 Second, players must have some need to use or consume the [[Resources]]. This can be enforce by making it part of player actions (as in "normal" situations in [[Go]]) or by "bribing" players to do this by having [[Victory Points]] as the  [[Resources]] used. Some games have [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] even if not all actions require use of [[Resources]] if over time one can guarantee that they will be used up or the game will end. The typical way of doing this is through having some form of [[Limited Repeats]]: in [[Go]] the ''Ko'' rule ensures this while the ''threefold repetition''<ref name="threefold"/> rule does so in [[Chess]] (and some other strategy games).
 == Consequences ==

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 In [[Hey! That's My Fish!]], the gameplay area is slowly reduced as players take pieces of it as part of their turns. The gameplay area in [[Forbidden Island]] also shrinks but here as an effect of passing time and players have a possibility of slowing this.
-The victory points in [[Race for the Galaxy]] and the provinces in [[Dominion]] show how resources that determine who wins a game can also be [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] that decides when the games end. Survival games such as [[This War of Mine]] (both the computer game and the board game) often make use of [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] to create a tension and force the games into one form of resolution or other; [[Minecarft]] and [[Valheim]] show that this is not the case for all survival games.
+The victory points in [[Race for the Galaxy]] and the provinces in [[Dominion]] show how resources that determine who wins a game can also be [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] that decides when the games end. Survival games such as [[This War of Mine]] (both the computer game and the board game) often make use of [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] to create a tension and force the games into one form of resolution or other; [[Minecraft]] and [[Valheim]] show that this is not the case for all survival games.
 == Using the pattern ==

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 ''The inescapable depletion of a resource as gameplay progresses.''
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 First, that the game system does not allow ways of introducing new [[Resources]] during games, so e.g. [[Resource Generators]] and [[Spawning]] can remove the presence of the pattern from a game ([[Converters]] may work as long as the material being converted is a [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]]).
-Second, players must have some need to use or consume the [[Resources]]. This can be enforce by making it part of player actions (as in "normal" sitations in [[Go]]) or by "bribing" players to do this by having [[Victory Points]] as the  [[Resources]] used. Some games have [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] even if not all actions require use of [[Resources]] if over time one can guarantee that they will be used up or the game will end. The typical way of doing this is through having some form of [[Limited Repeats]]: in [[Go]] the ''Ko'' rule ensures this while the ''threefold repetition''<ref name="threefold"/> rule does so in [[Chess]] (and some other strategy games).
+Second, players must have some need to use or consume the [[Resources]]. This can be enforce by making it part of player actions (as in "normal" situations in [[Go]]) or by "bribing" players to do this by having [[Victory Points]] as the  [[Resources]] used. Some games have [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] even if not all actions require use of [[Resources]] if over time one can guarantee that they will be used up or the game will end. The typical way of doing this is through having some form of [[Limited Repeats]]: in [[Go]] the ''Ko'' rule ensures this while the ''threefold repetition''<ref name="threefold"/> rule does so in [[Chess]] (and some other strategy games).
 == Consequences ==