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 Some games supply [[Vision Modes]] through equipment characters can carry. The [[Battlefield series|Battlefield]] and [[Call of Duty series]] does this through weapons with scopes and thermal sights, while the [[Elder Scrolls series]] has ''night vision'' spells. Fantasy [[:Category:Roleplaying Games|Roleplaying Games]] such as [[Dungeons & Dragons]] provide certain races with infravision or ultravision. [[GURPS]] does this in most of its fantasy setting while the modern or futuristic ones have equipment to provide [[Vision Modes]].
-[[Fallout 4]] lets players that choose the ''Scrapper'' perk see outlines around containers that contain items they have indicated that they want to collect.
+[[Fallout series|Fallout 4]] lets players that choose the ''Scrapper'' perk see outlines around containers that contain items they have indicated that they want to collect.
 == Using the pattern ==

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	Some games supply [[Vision Modes]] through equipment characters can carry. The [[Battlefield series\|Battlefield]] and [[Call of Duty series]] does this through weapons with scopes and thermal sights, while the [[Elder Scrolls series]] has ''night vision'' spells. Fantasy [[:Category:Roleplaying Games\|Roleplaying Games]] such as [[Dungeons & Dragons]] provide certain races with infravision or ultravision. [[GURPS]] does this in most of its fantasy setting while the modern or futuristic ones have equipment to provide [[Vision Modes]].		Some games supply [[Vision Modes]] through equipment characters can carry. The [[Battlefield series\|Battlefield]] and [[Call of Duty series]] does this through weapons with scopes and thermal sights, while the [[Elder Scrolls series]] has ''night vision'' spells. Fantasy [[:Category:Roleplaying Games\|Roleplaying Games]] such as [[Dungeons & Dragons]] provide certain races with infravision or ultravision. [[GURPS]] does this in most of its fantasy setting while the modern or futuristic ones have equipment to provide [[Vision Modes]].
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		+	[[Fallout 4]] lets players that choose the ''Scrapper'' perk see outlines around containers that contain items they have indicated that they want to collect.

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 Introducing [[Vision Modes]] to a game design consist of deciding how [[Game Worlds|Game World]] presentations should differ due to them and how they should be made available to players. For added complexity, several different [[Vision Modes]] can be available. The presentations themselves are typically achieved through having [[Mediated Gameplay]] since this makes it easy to control how information is presented to players.
-While the actual presentation typically depends on maintaining a [[Diegetic Consistency]], the actual gameplay difference is either to make game entities in [[Diegetically Outstanding Features]] or to reveal [[Secrets]] or [[Clues]]. [[Vision Modes]] are typically given as [[Powers]] or through [[Tools]], and for games with multiple [[Vision Modes]] all or just some can be included in for each particular enabler.
+While the actual presentation typically depends on maintaining a [[Diegetic Consistency]], the actual gameplay difference is either to make game entities in [[Diegetically Outstanding Features]] or to reveal [[Clues]] or ways to [[Secret Areas]]. [[Vision Modes]] are typically given as [[Powers]] or through [[Tools]], and for games with multiple [[Vision Modes]] all or just some can be included in for each particular enabler.
 While [[Vision Modes]] can modulate [[Line of Sight]] by simply making some game entities visible, it can also be used to let [[Line of Sight]] penetrate through game entities that normally is not transparent.
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 [[Diegetically Outstanding Features]],
 [[Exaggerated Perception of Influence]],
-[[Secrets]],
+[[Secret Areas]],
 [[Varied Gameplay]]

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 == Consequences ==
-[[Vision Modes]] are often [[Privileged Abilities]] and give [[Varied Gameplay]] as players need to shift between different ways of viewing [[Game Worlds]]. They are likely to cause [[Attention Swapping]] since players may miss events or information unless everything has been viewed in all possible [[Vision Modes]]. While the use of [[Vision Modes]] give players an [[Exaggerated Perception of Influence]] since they may be [[Privileged Abilities]], they can work against the level of [[Game Mastery]] possible in a game (see Linderoth (2010)<ref name="Linderoth"/> for a discussion on how the presence of [[Vision Modes]] affect players possibilities of learning to play those games) by not requiring players to [[Experimenting]] with the game environment to learn which game entities are important for what activities.
+[[Vision Modes]] are often [[Privileged Abilities]] and give [[Varied Gameplay]] as players need to shift between different ways of viewing [[Game Worlds]]. They are likely to cause [[Attention Swapping]] since players may miss events or information unless everything has been viewed in all possible [[Vision Modes]]. While the use of [[Vision Modes]] give players an [[Exaggerated Perception of Influence]] since they may be [[Privileged Abilities]], they can work against the level of [[Gameplay Mastery]] possible in a game (see Linderoth (2010)<ref name="Linderoth"/> for a discussion on how the presence of [[Vision Modes]] affect players possibilities of learning to play those games) by not requiring players to [[Experimenting]] with the game environment to learn which game entities are important for what activities.
 Since [[Vision Modes]] imply perception abilities of a diegetic character in games with [[First-Person Views]], they do also imply the presence of [[Characters]]. This can also lead [[Vision Modes]] to create [[Player/Character Skill Composites]] in games with [[First-Person Views]].
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 === Potentially Conflicting With ===
 [[Experimenting]],
-[[Game Mastery]]
+[[Gameplay Mastery]]
 == History ==

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 While [[Vision Modes]] can modulate [[Line of Sight]] by simply making some game entities visible, it can also be used to let [[Line of Sight]] penetrate through game entities that normally is not transparent.
-[[Vision Modes]] are most commonly used with [[First-Person Views|First]] or [[Third-Person Views]] since there is not strong diegetic reason to avoid giving all possible information in [[God Views]]. In games with huge amounts of information available to players, e.g. the [[Victoria series|Victoria]] or [[Hearts of Iron series]], it may however reduce information overload to have several different [[God Views]] players can move between.
+[[Vision Modes]] are most commonly used with [[First-Person Views|First]] or [[Third-Person Views]] since there is not strong diegetic reason to avoid giving all possible information in [[God Views]]. In games with huge amounts of information available to players, e.g. the [[Victoria series|Victoria]] or [[Hearts of Iron series]], it may however reduce information overload to have several different [[God Views]] players can move between. The pattern can also be applied locally in [[Picture-in-Picture Views]] without changing the overall representation.
 === Interface Aspects ===

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 [[First-Person Views]],
 [[Game Worlds]],
 [[Line of Sight]],
-[[Third-Person Views]],
+[[Picture-in-Picture Views]],
-[[God Views]]
+[[Third-Person Views]]
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