Tiles - Revision history

Staffan Björk at 13:16, 21 July 2016

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Staffan Björk at 09:06, 2 August 2015

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Staffan Björk at 10:12, 29 July 2015

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Staffan Björk at 10:10, 29 July 2015

2015-07-29T10:10:33Z

Staffan Björk: /* Using the pattern */

2015-07-29T10:09:28Z

‎Using the pattern

Staffan Björk: /* Using the pattern */

2012-08-24T10:25:45Z

‎Using the pattern

Staffan Björk at 10:24, 24 August 2012

2012-08-24T10:24:24Z

Staffan Björk at 18:27, 4 September 2011

2011-09-04T18:27:44Z

Staffan Björk at 17:06, 1 September 2011

2011-09-01T17:06:28Z

Staffan Björk at 08:17, 29 August 2011

2011-08-29T08:17:05Z

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 === Diegetic Aspects ===
-As [[Tiles]] can be the building blocks of [[Game Worlds]] and [[Levels]], they can be important in maintaining a game's [[Diegetic Consistency]].
+As [[Tiles]] can be the building blocks of [[Game Boards]], [[Game Worlds]], and [[Levels]], they can be important in maintaining a game's [[Diegetic Consistency]].
 === Interface Aspects ===
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 == Consequences ==
-[[Tiles]] can construct [[Game Worlds]] and [[Levels]], and allow these to be separated into clearly distinguishable areas, making the position and possibilities of actions easier to judge. This also allow easier changes in them, either in ownership if they represent [[Territories]] or in the actual gameplay area; the latter is in many cases used to have [[Reconfigurable Game Worlds]] (e.g. to create [[Shrinking Game Worlds]]). They also make it easy to have [[Configurable Gameplay Areas]] before gameplay begins (e.g. [[Settlers of Catan]]).
+[[Tiles]] can construct [[Game Boards]], [[Game Worlds]], and [[Levels]], and allow these to be separated into clearly distinguishable areas, making the position and possibilities of actions easier to judge. This also allow easier changes in them, either in ownership if they represent [[Territories]] or in the actual gameplay area; the latter is in many cases used to have [[Reconfigurable Game Worlds]] (e.g. to create [[Shrinking Game Worlds]]). They also make it easy to have [[Configurable Gameplay Areas]] before gameplay begins (e.g. [[Settlers of Catan]]).
-Besides being used to create [[Game Worlds]] and [[Levels]], [[Tiles]] can like [[Cards]] form [[Sets]] or [[Abstract Player Constructs]]. Being able to add [[Tiles]] to [[Abstract Player Constructs]] make [[Abstract Player Construct Development]] possible while being able to add [[Tiles]] in other gameplay is often some sort of [[Construction]] activity.
+Besides being used to create [[Game Boards]], [[Game Worlds]], and [[Levels]], [[Tiles]] can like [[Cards]] form [[Sets]] or [[Abstract Player Constructs]]. Being able to add [[Tiles]] to [[Abstract Player Constructs]] make [[Abstract Player Construct Development]] possible while being able to add [[Tiles]] in other gameplay is often some sort of [[Construction]] activity.
 When [[Tiles]] need to be given to players during gameplay, they can support both [[Drawing Stacks]] and [[Drafting]] and through shuffling them [[Randomness]]. With fixed distributions of which types of [[Tiles]] exist, these design solutions encourage players to engage in [[Memorizing]] which [[Tiles]] have been drawn and which have been played.
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 [[Environmental Effects]],
 [[Focus Loci]],
 [[Game Worlds]],
 [[Levels]],

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 == Relations ==
 === Can Instantiate ===
 [[Abstract Player Constructs]],
 [[Bookkeeping Tokens]],
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 [[Strategic Locations]],
 [[Territories]]
 ==== with [[Construction]] ====

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 [[Category:Patterns]]
 [[Category:Interface Patterns]]
-[[Category:Level Design Patterns|Level Design Patterns]]
+[[Category:Level Design Patterns]]
 [[Category:Needs revision]]
 [[Category:Needs references]]
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 [[Tiles]] have many similarities with [[Cards]], so any design intending to use [[Tiles]] can also consider using [[Cards]]. While both can be used to create [[Hands]] of potential actions (e.g. [[Mahjong]] and [[Scrabble]] uses [[Tiles]] in this way) or as [[Bookkeeping Tokens]], [[Tiles]] tend to be used to create [[Game Worlds]] while [[Cards]] instead tend to be used to create [[Abstract Player Constructs]]. Usually only one side and one facing of [[Tiles]] are used but [[Othello]] shows an example where they are flipped to indicate [[Ownership]]; [[American Megafauna]] turns biome ''cards'' to indicate how prevalent the biomes are in regions and [[Rommel in the Desert]] turns ''blocks'' to indicate the strength of [[Units]].
-[[Tiles]] can be used to build [[Game Worlds]], and if combined with [[Randomness]] can do so before gameplay begins to create entire [[Procedurally Generated Game Worlds]]. [[Tiles]] used for this can represent [[Environmental Effects]] and they can be modified by making them into [[Resource Generators]], [[Resource Locations]], or providing [[Location-Fixed Abilities]] (or be modulated by other elements that realize [[Resource Generators]] or [[Location-Fixed Abilities]]). All of these can make the [[Tiles]] into [[Strategic Locations]]. A choice when using [[Tiles]] to create [[Game Worlds]] like this is if they should be designed so they are "plane-filling" or just represent the important parts of the [[Game Worlds]]. The former is necessary if [[Diegetic Consistency]] is to be maintained and examples of games with this design solution include [[NetHack]], [[Minecraft]], and [[Settlers of Catan]]; games that do not this include [[Carolus Magnus]] and [[Container]] (although the latter claims that the surface the game is played on represents an ocean).
+[[Tiles]] can be used to build [[Game Worlds]], and if combined with [[Randomness]] can do so before gameplay begins to create entire [[Procedurally Generated Game Worlds]]. [[Tiles]] used for this can represent [[Environmental Effects]] and they can be modified by making them into [[Resource Generators]], [[Resource Locations]], or providing [[Location-Fixed Abilities]]. All of these can make the [[Tiles]] into [[Strategic Locations]]. A choice when using [[Tiles]] to create [[Game Worlds]] like this is if they should be designed so they are "plane-filling" or just represent the important parts of the [[Game Worlds]]. The former is necessary if [[Diegetic Consistency]] is to be maintained and examples of games with this design solution include [[NetHack]], [[Minecraft]], and [[Settlers of Catan]]; games that do not this include [[Carolus Magnus]] and [[Container]] (although the latter claims that the surface the game is played on represents an ocean).
 While [[Tile-Laying]] can result from [[Tiles]] combined with the [[Construction]] pattern (e.g. [[Dominant Species]]), having [[Tiles]] as [[Destructible Objects]] instead results in [[Shrinking Game Worlds]] (e.g. [[Hey! That's My Fish!]]). Both placing and removing [[Tiles]] are examples of when these become [[Focus Loci]] for players, but this can also be the case if players can in other ways manipulate them, flipping them as done in [[Othello]] is one example of this. In [[:Category:Computer Games|Computer Games]], [[Tiles]] may have natures that are more dynamic. In the [[Super Mario series]] there are several examples of [[Tiles]] that start to deteriorate when stepped on, creating [[Time Limits]] for long the tile can be used. In [[Greed Corp]] each turn a harvester is used next to a hex or on it while remove one layer of it and finally remove the [[Tiles|Tile]] altogether.
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 [[Game Worlds]],
 [[Levels]],
 [[Memorizing]],
 [[Randomness]],
 [[Reconfigurable Game Worlds]],
 [[Sets]],
 [[Strategic Locations]],
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 [[Location-Fixed Abilities]],
 [[Resource Generators]],
 [[Stack Seeding]],
 [[Trick Taking]],

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 [[Category:Patterns]]
 [[Category:Interface Patterns]]
 [[Category:Needs revision]]
 [[Category:Needs references]]

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 [[Tiles]] have many similarities with [[Cards]], so any design intending to use [[Tiles]] can also consider using [[Cards]]. While both can be used to create [[Hands]] of potential actions (e.g. [[Mahjong]] and [[Scrabble]] uses [[Tiles]] in this way) or as [[Bookkeeping Tokens]], [[Tiles]] tend to be used to create [[Game Worlds]] while [[Cards]] instead tend to be used to create [[Abstract Player Constructs]]. Usually only one side and one facing of [[Tiles]] are used but [[Othello]] shows an example where they are flipped to indicate [[Ownership]]; [[American Megafauna]] turns biome ''cards'' to indicate how prevalent the biomes are in regions and [[Rommel in the Desert]] turns ''blocks'' to indicate the strength of [[Units]].
-[[Tiles]] can be used to build [[Game Worlds]], and if combined with [[Randomness]] can do so before gameplay begins to create entire [[Procedurally Generated Game Worlds]]. [[Tiles]] used for this can represent  [[Environmental Effects]], [[Resource Generators]], [[Resource Locations]], or [[Location-Fixed Abilities]] (or be modulated by other elements that realize [[Resource Generators]] or [[Location-Fixed Abilities]]). All of these can make the [[Tiles]] into [[Strategic Locations]]. A choice when using [[Tiles]] to create [[Game Worlds]] like this is if they should be designed so they are "plane-filling" or just represent the important parts of the [[Game Worlds]]. The former is necessary if [[Diegetic Consistency]] is to be maintained and examples of games with this design solution include [[NetHack]], [[Minecraft]], and [[Settlers of Catan]]; games that do not this include [[Carolus Magnus]] and [[Container]] (although the latter claims that the surface the game is played on represents an ocean).
+[[Tiles]] can be used to build [[Game Worlds]], and if combined with [[Randomness]] can do so before gameplay begins to create entire [[Procedurally Generated Game Worlds]]. [[Tiles]] used for this can represent [[Environmental Effects]] and they can be modified by making them into [[Resource Generators]], [[Resource Locations]], or providing [[Location-Fixed Abilities]] (or be modulated by other elements that realize [[Resource Generators]] or [[Location-Fixed Abilities]]). All of these can make the [[Tiles]] into [[Strategic Locations]]. A choice when using [[Tiles]] to create [[Game Worlds]] like this is if they should be designed so they are "plane-filling" or just represent the important parts of the [[Game Worlds]]. The former is necessary if [[Diegetic Consistency]] is to be maintained and examples of games with this design solution include [[NetHack]], [[Minecraft]], and [[Settlers of Catan]]; games that do not this include [[Carolus Magnus]] and [[Container]] (although the latter claims that the surface the game is played on represents an ocean).
 While [[Tile-Laying]] can result from [[Tiles]] combined with the [[Construction]] pattern (e.g. [[Dominant Species]]), having [[Tiles]] as [[Destructible Objects]] instead results in [[Shrinking Game Worlds]] (e.g. [[Hey! That's My Fish!]]). Both placing and removing [[Tiles]] are examples of when these become [[Focus Loci]] for players, but this can also be the case if players can in other ways manipulate them, flipping them as done in [[Othello]] is one example of this. In [[:Category:Computer Games|Computer Games]], [[Tiles]] may have natures that are more dynamic. In the [[Super Mario series]] there are several examples of [[Tiles]] that start to deteriorate when stepped on, creating [[Time Limits]] for long the tile can be used. In [[Greed Corp]] each turn a harvester is used next to a hex or on it while remove one layer of it and finally remove the [[Tiles|Tile]] altogether.

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 == Using the pattern ==
-[[Tiles]] have many similarities with [[Cards]], so any design intending to use [[Tiles]] can also consider using [[Cards]]. While both can be used to create [[Hands]] of potential actions (e.g. [[Mahjong]] and [[Scrabble]] uses [[Tiles]] in this way) or as [[Bookkeeping Tokens]], [[Tiles]] tend to be used to create [[Game Worlds]] while [[Cards]] instead tend to be used to create [[Abstract Player Constructs]]. Usually only one side and one facing of [[Tiles]] are used but [[Othello]] shows an example where they are flipped to indicate [[Ownership]]; [[American Megafauna]] turns biome ''cards'' to indicate how prevalent they are in regions and [[Rommel in the Desert]] turns ''blocks'' to indicate the strength of [[Units]].
+[[Tiles]] have many similarities with [[Cards]], so any design intending to use [[Tiles]] can also consider using [[Cards]]. While both can be used to create [[Hands]] of potential actions (e.g. [[Mahjong]] and [[Scrabble]] uses [[Tiles]] in this way) or as [[Bookkeeping Tokens]], [[Tiles]] tend to be used to create [[Game Worlds]] while [[Cards]] instead tend to be used to create [[Abstract Player Constructs]]. Usually only one side and one facing of [[Tiles]] are used but [[Othello]] shows an example where they are flipped to indicate [[Ownership]]; [[American Megafauna]] turns biome ''cards'' to indicate how prevalent the biomes are in regions and [[Rommel in the Desert]] turns ''blocks'' to indicate the strength of [[Units]].
 [[Tiles]] can be used to build [[Game Worlds]], and if combined with [[Randomness]] can do so before gameplay begins to create entire [[Procedurally Generated Game Worlds]]. [[Tiles]] used for this can represent  [[Environmental Effects]], [[Resource Generators]], [[Resource Locations]], or [[Location-Fixed Abilities]] (or be modulated by other elements that realize [[Resource Generators]] or [[Location-Fixed Abilities]]). All of these can make the [[Tiles]] into [[Strategic Locations]]. A choice when using [[Tiles]] to create [[Game Worlds]] like this is if they should be designed so they are "plane-filling" or just represent the important parts of the [[Game Worlds]]. The former is necessary if [[Diegetic Consistency]] is to be maintained and examples of games with this design solution include [[NetHack]], [[Minecraft]], and [[Settlers of Catan]]; games that do not this include [[Carolus Magnus]] and [[Container]] (although the latter claims that the surface the game is played on represents an ocean).

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 [[Tiles]] used to build [[Game Worlds]] can be [[Environmental Effects]], [[Resource Generators]], [[Resource Locations]], or [[Location-Fixed Abilities]] (or be modulated by other elements that realize [[Resource Generators]] or [[Location-Fixed Abilities]]) and through this [[Strategic Locations]]. Also, when used to create [[Game Worlds]], [[Tiles]] may be designed so they are "plane-filling" or just represent the important parts of the [[Game Worlds]]. The former is necessary if [[Diegetic Consistency]] is to be maintained and examples of games with this design solution include [[NetHack]], [[Minecraft]], and [[Settlers of Catan]]; games that do not this include [[Carolus Magnus]] and [[Container]] (although the latter claims that the surface the game is played on represents an ocean).
-While [[Tile-Laying]] can result from [[Tiles]] combined with the [[Construction]] pattern (e.g. [[Dominant Species]]), having [[Tiles]] as [[Destructible Objects]] instead results in [[Shrinking Game Worlds]] (e.g. [[Hey! That's My Fish!]]). In [[:Category:Computer Games|Computer Games]], [[Tiles]] may have natures that are more dynamic. In the [[Super Mario series]] there are several examples of [[Tiles]] that start to deteriorate when stepped on, creating [[Time Limits]] for long the tile can be used. In [[Greed Corp]] each turn a harvester is used next to a hex or on it while remove one layer of it and finally remove the [[Tiles|Tile]] altogether.
+While [[Tile-Laying]] can result from [[Tiles]] combined with the [[Construction]] pattern (e.g. [[Dominant Species]]), having [[Tiles]] as [[Destructible Objects]] instead results in [[Shrinking Game Worlds]] (e.g. [[Hey! That's My Fish!]]). Both placing and removing [[Tiles]] are examples of when these become [[Focus Loci]] for players, but this can also be the case if players can in other ways manipulate them, flipping them as done in [[Othello]] is one example of this. In [[:Category:Computer Games|Computer Games]], [[Tiles]] may have natures that are more dynamic. In the [[Super Mario series]] there are several examples of [[Tiles]] that start to deteriorate when stepped on, creating [[Time Limits]] for long the tile can be used. In [[Greed Corp]] each turn a harvester is used next to a hex or on it while remove one layer of it and finally remove the [[Tiles|Tile]] altogether.
 Like [[Cards]], [[Tiles]] can be used for [[Trick Taking]] and is in this case often combined with [[Turn Taking]]. These, and games where [[Tiles]] are picked by players and then played (e.g. [[Carcassonne]]), often place the [[Tiles]] in [[Drawing Stacks]]. Used [[Tiles]] can be placed in [[Discard Piles]] and the distribution of [[Tiles]] in [[Drawing Stacks]] can be manipulated by [[Stack Seeding]].
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 [[Drawing Stacks]],
 [[Environmental Effects]],
 [[Game Worlds]],
 [[Levels]],