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| + | For patterns that have partly or fully been inserted into the wiki, see the [[:Category:Patterns|category of patterns]]. See also [[Renamed Patterns]]. | ||
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Note: not all these patterns should necessary be made... | Note: not all these patterns should necessary be made... | ||
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Note: the suggested patterns are not made as links to avoid hiding patterns that are actually referenced to | Note: the suggested patterns are not made as links to avoid hiding patterns that are actually referenced to | ||
| − | + | == Patterns == | |
| + | === From the cd-rom === | ||
| + | [[Alliances]] | ||
| − | + | [[Alternative Realities]] | |
| − | + | [[Anticipation]] | |
| − | + | [[Asymmetric Goals]] | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | [[Asymmetric Information]] | |
| − | [[ | + | [[Asymmetric Resource Distribution]] |
| − | + | [[Asynchronous Games]] | |
| − | + | [[Attention Swapping]] | |
| − | + | [[Betting]] | |
| − | + | [[Bidding]] | |
| − | + | [[Bluffing]] | |
| − | + | [[Closed Economies]] | |
| − | [[ | + | [[Closure Points]] |
| − | + | [[Cognitive Engrossment]] (<- Cognitive Immersion ) | |
| − | + | [[Collecting]] | |
| − | + | [[Collections]] (<- Collection ) | |
| − | + | [[Committed Goals]] | |
| − | + | [[Competitions]] ( <- Competition ) | |
| − | + | [[Conceal]] | |
| − | + | [[Configuration]] | |
| − | + | [[Conflicts]] ( <- Conflict ) | |
| − | + | [[Connection]] | |
| − | + | [[Constructive Gameplay]] ( <- Constructive Play ) | |
| − | + | [[Consumers]] | |
| − | + | [[Contact]] | |
| − | + | [[Containers]] | |
| − | + | [[Continuous Goals]] | |
| − | [[ | + | [[Converters]] |
| − | + | [[Creative Control]] | |
| − | + | [[Deliver]] (<- Delivery) | |
| − | + | [[Dexterity-Based Actions]] | |
| − | + | [[Dice]] | |
| − | + | [[Diminishing Returns]] | |
| − | + | [[Direct Information]] | |
| − | + | [[Disruption of Focused Attention]] | |
| − | + | [[Downtime]] | |
| − | + | [[Temporary Alliances]] <- (Dynamic Alliances) | |
| − | + | [[Dynamic Goal Characteristics]] | |
| − | + | [[Easter Eggs]] | |
| − | + | [[Eliminate]] | |
| − | + | [[Empowerment]] - should be related to Illusion of Influence | |
| − | + | [[Enclosure]] | |
| − | + | [[Evade]] | |
| − | + | [[Excluding Goals]] | |
| − | + | [[Extra-Game Actions]] | |
| − | + | [[Extra-Game Information]] | |
| − | + | [[Fog of War]] | |
| − | + | [[Gain Information]] | |
| − | + | [[Gain Ownership]] | |
| − | + | [[Game Mastery]] | |
| − | + | [[Game Pauses]] | |
| − | + | [[Game State Overviews]] ( <- Game State Overview ) | |
| − | + | [[Ghosts]] | |
| − | + | [[Goal Indicators]] | |
| − | + | [[Check Points]] <- Goal Points | |
| − | + | [[Guard]] | |
| − | + | [[Herding]] <- Herd (check for links to Herd) | |
| − | + | [[Goal Hierarchies]] ( <- Hierarchy of Goals ) | |
| − | + | [[Hovering Closures]] | |
| − | + | [[Identification]] | |
| − | + | [[Illusionary Rewards]] | |
| − | + | [[Engrossment]] ( <- Immersion) | |
| − | + | [[Imperfect Information]] | |
| − | + | [[Incompatible Goals]] | |
| − | + | [[Indirect Control]] | |
| − | + | [[Indirect Information]] | |
| − | [[ | + | [[Individual Penalties]] |
| − | + | [[Individual Rewards]] | |
| − | + | [[Interferable Goals]] | |
| − | + | [[Investments]] | |
| − | + | [[King of the Hill]] | |
| − | + | [[Last Man Standing]] | |
| − | + | [[Leaps of Faith]] | |
| − | + | [[Limited Foresight]] | |
| − | + | [[Limited Planning Ability]] | |
| − | + | [[Limited Resources]] | |
| − | + | [[Limited Set of Actions]] | |
| − | + | [[Meta Games]] | |
| − | + | [[Mutual Goals]] | |
| − | + | [[Near Miss Indicators]] | |
| − | + | [[Negotiation]] | |
| − | + | [[Never Ending Stories]] | |
| − | + | [[Non-Renewable Resources]] | |
| − | + | [[Optional Goals]] | |
| − | + | [[Outcome Indicators]] | |
| − | + | [[Overcome]] | |
| − | + | [[Ownership]] | |
| − | + | [[Rock-Paper-Scissors]] (<- Paper-Rock-Scissors) | |
| − | + | [[Penalties]] | |
| − | + | [[Perceivable Margins]] | |
| − | + | [[Perfect Information]] | |
| − | + | [[Player Balance]] | |
| − | + | [[Player Defined Goals]] | |
| − | + | [[Player-Decided Distributions]] (<- Player-Decided Distribution of Rewards & Penalties) | |
| − | + | [[Player-Decided Results]] | |
| − | + | [[Predefined Goals]] | |
| − | + | [[Preventing Goals]] | |
| − | + | [[Production-Consumption Flows]] ( <- Producer-Consumer ) | |
| − | + | [[Producers]] | |
| − | + | [[Progress Indicators]] ("Progress" announced for quests in Ravenwood Fair) | |
| − | + | [[Public Information]] | |
| − | + | [[Quick Games]] | |
| − | + | [[Reconnaissance]] | |
| − | + | [[Red Queen Dilemmas]] | |
| − | + | [[Renewable Resources]] | |
| − | + | [[Rescue]] | |
| − | + | [[Resource Generators]] (tangible game elements now; and break out [[Generators]]) | |
| − | + | [[Resource Locations]] | |
| − | + | [[Resource Management]] | |
| − | + | [[Resources]] | |
| − | + | [[Reversibility]] ( <- Reversability) | |
| − | + | [[Rewards]] (don't forget to link to [[Achievements]] | |
| − | [[ | + | [[Complex Gameplay]](<- Right Level of Complexity - same reasoning as below) |
| − | + | [[Risk/Reward]] | |
| − | + | [[Role Reversal]] | |
| − | + | [[Save Points]] | |
| − | + | [[Save-Load Cycles]] (add NPC party spoof from Baldur's gate expansion Throne of Bhaal) | |
| − | + | [[Scores]] <- Score (several pattern link to Score right now...) | |
| − | + | [[Secret Alliances]] | |
| − | + | [[Secret Resources]] | |
| − | + | [[Selectable Set of Goals]] (<- Selectable Sets of Goals) | |
| − | + | [[Sensory-Motoric Engrossment]] ( <- Sensory-Motoric Immersion ) | |
| − | + | [[Shared Penalties]] | |
| − | + | [[Shared Resources]] | |
| − | + | [[Shared Rewards]] | |
| − | + | [[Smooth Learning Curves]] | |
| − | [[ | + | [[Social Interaction]] |
| − | + | [[Social Organizations]] | |
| − | Immersion | + | [[Spatial Engrossment]] ( <- Spatial Immersion ) |
| − | + | [[Spectators]] | |
| − | + | [[Stealth]] | |
| − | + | [[Storytelling]] | |
| − | + | [[Supporting Goals]] | |
| − | + | [[Surprises]] | |
| − | + | [[Survive]] | |
| − | + | [[Symmetric Goals]] | |
| − | + | [[Symmetric Information]] | |
| − | + | [[Symmetric Resource Distribution]] | |
| − | + | [[Symmetry]] | |
| − | + | [[Synchronous Games]] | |
| − | + | [[Team Balance]] | |
| − | + | [[Team Development]] | |
| − | + | [[Team Elimination]] | |
| − | + | [[Teams]] ( <- Team Play ) (including clans) | |
| − | + | [[The Show Must Go On]] | |
| − | + | [[Tick-Based Games]] (not that ticks can exist in real-time games) | |
| − | + | [[Tiebreakers]] | |
| − | + | [[Tied Results]] | |
| − | + | [[Timing]] | |
| − | + | [[Tournaments]] | |
| − | + | [[Trade-Offs]] (<- Tradeoffs ) | |
| − | + | [[Trading]] | |
| − | + | [[Trans-Game Information]] | |
| − | + | [[Transfer of Control]] | |
| − | + | [[Ultra-Powerful Events]] | |
| − | + | [[Uncertainty of Information]] | |
| − | + | [[Uncommitted Alliances]] | |
| − | + | [[Unknown Goals]] | |
| − | + | [[Varied Gameplay]] | |
| − | + | === Left-overs from the book === | |
| + | (find the excel file for this) | ||
| − | + | === New from various sources === | |
| + | ==== IPerG: D5.8 ==== | ||
| + | [[Communication Channels]] | ||
| − | + | Memorabilia | |
| − | + | [[Mediated Gameplay]] (where the medium affects the gameplay) <- [[Unmediated Social Interaction]] | |
| − | + | [[Chat Forums]] | |
| − | + | Coupled Games | |
| − | + | Social Rewards | |
| − | + | Configurable Gameplay Area | |
| − | + | [[Interruptibility]] <- Interruptability (because it's spelled so...) | |
| − | + | [[Game Element Trading]] | |
| − | + | 1.14 Hybrid Spaces | |
| − | + | 1.15 Social Skills | |
| − | + | 1.16 Real Life Activities Affect Game State | |
| − | + | Asynchronous Collaborative Actions | |
| − | + | [[Negotiable Play Sessions]] | |
| − | + | 1.21 Negotiable Game Sessions | |
| − | + | [[Negotiable Game Instance Duration]] | |
| − | + | 1.23 Negotiable Game Time | |
| − | + | [[Activity Blending]] | |
| − | [[ | + | [[Social Roles]] ( <- Selectable Social Roles ) |
| − | + | ==== NPC design with Petri ==== | |
| + | Visual Body Damage | ||
| − | + | Dissectible Bodies | |
| − | + | ==== Social NPC design with Petri ==== | |
| + | Binding Promises | ||
| − | + | Brokering | |
| − | + | Competing for Attention | |
| − | + | [[Context Dependent Reactions]] ( <- Context Dependent Reaction) | |
| − | + | Eavesdropping | |
| − | + | Either You are with Me or against Me | |
| − | + | False Accusations | |
| − | + | Favors (<- Favor ) | |
| − | + | Gain Allies | |
| − | + | Guide and Protect | |
| − | + | [[Hierarchical Factions]] <- Hierarchical Fraction | |
| − | + | Linked Destinies | |
| − | + | Maintaining Lies | |
| − | + | Match-Making | |
| − | + | Memory of Important Events | |
| − | + | My Enemy’s Enemy is my Friend | |
| − | + | Others fortune affects own Mood | |
| − | + | Outcast | |
| − | + | Outspoken Support | |
| − | + | Requesting Support | |
| − | + | Social Gatekeeper | |
| − | + | [[Diegetic Social Maintenance]] <- Social Maintenance | |
| − | [[ | + | [[Diegetic Social Norms]] <- Social Norm |
| − | + | [[Traitors]] <- Traitor | |
| − | + | ==== Dialogue design with Jenny ==== | |
| + | Incremental Dialogue Processing | ||
| − | + | Chunk-based Dialogue Processing | |
| − | + | Single-Initiative Dialogues | |
| − | + | Mixed Initiative Dialogues | |
| − | + | Basic Input Feedback | |
| − | + | Barge-In | |
| − | + | Canned Text Responses | |
| − | + | [[Thematically Consistent Dialogues]] (<- Diegetically Consistent Dialogue) | |
| − | + | [[Context Dependent Dialogues]] ( <- Context Dependent Dialogue ) | |
| − | + | [[Gameplay Integrated Conversation]] ( <- Gameplay Integrated Conversation) | |
| − | + | [[Illocutionary Interfaces]] ( <- Illocutionary Interface ) | |
| − | + | [[Location-Specific Dialogues]] ( <- Location-Specific Dialogues) | |
| − | + | [[Character-Specific Dialogues]] ( <- Character-Specific Dialogue ) | |
| − | + | Colloquial Mastery | |
| − | + | Delicate Phrasing | |
| − | + | ==== MMOG design by Jenny's master students (Torbjörn Söderqvist & Christian Larsson) ==== | |
| + | Loot Rights | ||
| − | + | Carryables | |
| − | + | Useables | |
| − | + | Noticeables | |
| − | + | Creatables | |
| − | + | Stackables | |
| − | + | Disposables | |
| − | + | Enterables/Mountables | |
| − | + | ====== Suggested ====== | |
| + | Stealables | ||
| − | + | Dropables/Placables | |
| − | + | Social Status Symbols | |
| − | + | ==== Pervasive games with Johan Peitz ==== | |
| + | [[Connected Games]] (from Johan's master thesis; Chao Adventure 1 + 2 with Sonic Adventure 1 + 2 for the VMU / DC, also Zombie Revenge and Quake III Arena to unlock cheat codes; Skies of Arcadia + Pinta's Quest) | ||
| − | + | Actor Detachment | |
| − | + | Artifact-Artifact Proximity | |
| − | + | Artifact-Location Proximity | |
| − | + | Configurable Gameplay Area | |
| − | + | Critical Gameplay Design | |
| − | + | Decontextability | |
| − | + | [[Extra-Game Input]] | |
| − | + | Gameplay Changes Perception of Real World Phenomena | |
| − | Social | + | Minimalized Social Weight |
| − | + | [[Physical Navigation]] | |
| − | + | [[Player Physical Prowess]] | |
| − | [[ | + | [[Player-Artifact Proximity]] |
| − | + | Player-Avatar Proximity | |
| − | + | [[Player-Location Proximity]] | |
| − | + | [[Player-Player Proximity]] | |
| − | + | Real Life Activities Affect Game State | |
| − | + | Real World Knowledge Advantages | |
| − | + | [[Seamful Gameplay]] | |
| − | + | [[Self-Reported Positioning]] | |
| − | + | Social Adaptability | |
| − | + | ==== Unknown ==== | |
| + | Persistant State World | ||
| − | + | Fixed Real-World Exchange Rate | |
| − | + | Death game mönstret | |
| − | + | Point of No Return | |
| − | + | ==== New proposals from working with the wiki ==== | |
| + | [[Attention Demanding]] [grew out of rewriting real-time games] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 16:08, 6 November 2009 (UTC) | ||
| − | + | [[Togetherness]] [grew out of rewriting real-time games, and makes Karl happy maybe] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 16:18, 6 November 2009 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Option Interfaces]] [grew out of real-time games, pop-up choices outside the main game interface, does this exists already partly?] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 17:58, 7 November 2009 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Friend Lists]] [from many online games] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 11:25, 8 November 2009 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] [From writing Unwinnable Games] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 11:43, 14 November 2009 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Turnovers]] [From playing Bloodbowl] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 20:43, 14 November 2009 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Game Time Manipulation]] [From writing on irreversible events, example are Braid, save-load cycles, prince of persia] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 15:27, 19 November 2009 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Asymmetric Roles]] (already covered by asymmetrical abilities? e.g. Allegiance, where one player steers the ship/bombs and one sits in a turret to keep interceptors at bay--[[User:Karl Bergström|Karl Bergström]] 14:33, 20 November 2009 (UTC)) | |
| − | + | [[Value of Effort]] (that players have real or perceived valuable outcomes of the effort they put into the gameplay) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 13:41, 21 November 2009 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Positive Feedback Loops]] (from updating the names of the Arithmetic and Geometric patterns, and Rules of Play; farms in CityVille and Empires & Allies) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 12:10, 7 December 2009 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Negative Feedback Loops]] (from updating the names of the Arithmetic and Geometric patterns, and Rules of Play; Questions in Empires & Allies that give less money than they cost to do) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 12:10, 7 December 2009 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Game Lobbies]] (for finding games and friends, e.g. in L4D) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 10:28, 15 December 2009 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Group Belonging]] (L4D, aesthetics work) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 11:06, 16 December 2009 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Campaigns]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 14:30, 16 December 2009 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Community Functionality]] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 15:07, 16 December 2009 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Voting]] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 12:10, 17 December 2009 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Player Decided Rule Setup]] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 12:10, 17 December 2009 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Game-Defined Vocabulary]] (quick responses in Battlefield and L4D series) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 12:29, 17 December 2009 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[PvE]] (Player versus Environment; WoW) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 11:13, 30 January 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[PvP]] (Player versus Player; WoW) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 11:13, 30 January 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Kiting]] (drawing monsters out and attacking them) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 11:15, 31 January 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Mutual Enemies]] (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Excluding Groups]] (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Inherent Mistrust]] (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Coordination]] (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper - include WoW marker example by Bennerstedt) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 12:28, 27 April 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Sabotage]] (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Simultaneous Challenges]] (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Virtual Co-Presence]] (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Mutual Experiences]] (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[FUBAR Enjoyment]] (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Mutual FUBAR Enjoyment]] (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Team Accomplishments]] (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Excise]] (from mentions by Karl Bergström; see also Juul's ''dead time'' concept) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 16:46, 22 February 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Limited Gameplay Time]] (that either game sessions or play sessions are designed to be limited in time or moves) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 10:11, 24 February 2010 (UTC) | |
| + | [[Renewable Resources]] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 11:50, 28 February 2010 (UTC) | ||
| + | [[Initial Personalization]] (that one can customized avatars before ones gameplay begins) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 07:46, 30 March 2010 (UTC) | ||
| − | + | [[Automated Responses]] (agents reacting automatic to detected objects and events) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 06:16, 6 April 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Attributes]] (duh...) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 06:38, 6 April 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | [[Feats]] (duh...) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 06:38, 6 April 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Advantages]] (duh...) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 06:38, 6 April 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Disadvantages]] (duh...) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 06:38, 6 April 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Customizable Development]] (choices when having character development) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 06:48, 7 April 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Player Time Investments]] (basically, that players have spent time in the game to either master skills or create/shape something in the game) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 06:53, 7 April 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Avatar Personalization]] (cosmetic personalization of avatars) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 07:06, 7 April 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Deck Building]] (as in Dominion and Magic) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 17:18, 11 April 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Development Trees]] (as in civ but also as in D&D and Borderlands, [[Technologies]] link) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 11:45, 17 April 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[King Maker]] (wasn't this in the first collection?) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 14:35, 18 April 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | 1 | + | [[Emergent Gameplay]] (1+1=3) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 07:18, 25 April 2010 (UTC) |
| − | + | [[Gameplay Recording]] (e.g. Battlefield 2, Sims, the Movies) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 10:48, 30 April 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Bragging]] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 10:58, 30 April 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Cartel Formation]] (based on non-game reasons) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 16:03, 3 May 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Wave]] (from the GOP paper) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 07:22, 7 May 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Character Levels]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 15:02, 27 May 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Unobserved Game Events]] (from inserting patterns from Petri's PhD thesis) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 07:39, 28 May 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Character Memories]] (from inserting patterns from Petri's PhD thesis) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 07:56, 28 May 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Game Prophecies]] (information from the game what will happen in the future of the game) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 07:58, 28 May 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Mandatory Goals]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 14:09, 30 May 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Self-Facilitated Rules]] (as Self-Facilitated Games but only for rules and can be just a part of the rules) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 22:03, 4 June 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Infiltrate]] (pretending to be in a group) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 07:18, 25 June 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[fgh effect]] (that the 3rd guy is the crook, whomever the 3rd guy turns out to be, from newish Gamma World rules) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 08:21, 25 June 2010 (UTC) | |
| − | + | [[Guilds]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 13:11, 31 August 2010 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Secret Goals]] (duh) --[[--[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 15:11, 10 September 2010 (CEST)User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 12:11, 3 September 2010 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Intrigue]] (secret negotiations) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 12:13, 3 September 2010 (CEST) | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | [[Effect Descriptions]] (descriptions of the game effect of an action) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 10:22, 7 September 2010 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Tragedy of the Commons]] (breakout from Social Dilemmas?) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 16:47, 7 September 2010 (CEST) | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | [[Enforced Goals]] (goals you need to succeed with to complete or win a game) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 10:35, 9 September 2010 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Indirectly Aggressive Actions]] (A secondary effect to an action that improves your chances in which opponents ability to improve their absolute position is reduced) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 10:57, 9 September 2010 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Directly Aggressive Actions]] (Actions that reduced opponents absolute positions in the game) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 10:57, 9 September 2010 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Game Element Removal]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 16:54, 9 September 2010 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Game-Induced Player Social Status]] (re-introduced from ''Social Status'' ) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 10:51, 10 September 2010 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Upgrading]] (the event of giving new or improved abilities) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 14:39, 10 September 2010 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Tokens]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 15:11, 10 September 2010 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Performance]] (theatrical or show-off expression) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 12:09, 14 September 2010 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Chain Reactions]] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 12:48, 17 September 2010 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Secondary Interface Screens]] (e.g. [[Inventories]] or [[Character Sheets]] - note conflicts in [[Game Worlds]], breaks [[Diegetic Consistency]] if creating [[Game Pauses]]) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 11:54, 21 September 2010 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Character Sheets]] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 11:54, 21 September 2010 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[HUD Interfaces]] (also add Screen Splatter, Giantbomb) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 12:17, 21 September 2010 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Game Over]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 10:57, 29 September 2010 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Indirect Conflicts]] (from writing Algorithmic Agents) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 11:04, 18 November 2010 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Ranking Systems]] | |
| − | + | [[Glory Rewards]] (Social Rewards?, Hallford & Hallford, 2001, Swords and Circuitry: A designer’s guide to computer role playing games. Roseville, CA: Prime Publishing, p. 158) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 14:03, 26 November 2010 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Sustenance Rewards]] (Hallford & Hallford, 2001 p. 158) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 14:03, 26 November 2010 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Access Rewards]] (Hallford & Hallford, 2001 p. 158) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 14:03, 26 November 2010 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Facilitating Rewards]] (Hallford & Hallford, 2001 p. 158) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 14:03, 26 November 2010 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Energy Penalties]] (Energy punishment, Juul, 2009, p.238) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 17:03, 26 November 2010 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Life Penalties]] (Life punishment, Juul, 2009, p.238) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 17:03, 26 November 2010 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Game Termination Penalties]] (Game termination punishment, Juul, 2009, p.238) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 17:03, 26 November 2010 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Setback Penalties]] (Setback punishment, Juul, 2009, p.238) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 17:03, 26 November 2010 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Public Interfaces]] (interfaces that are accessible to several people at the same time, e.g. [[Flight Control]] on the iPad) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 19:19, 27 November 2010 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Appointments]] (related to [[Encouraged Return Visits]]; taken from the SVNGR mechanic ''Appointment Dynamic'', http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/) | |
| − | + | [[Incremental Information Delivery]] (from the SVNGR mechanic ''Cascading Information Theory'', http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/) | |
| − | + | [[Communal Problem Solving]] (from the SVNGR mechanic ''Communal Discovery'', http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/) | |
| − | + | [[Lottery]] (from the SVNGR mechanic ''Lottery'', http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/) | |
| − | + | [[Shell Game]] (from the SVNGR mechanic ''Shell Game'', http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/) | |
| − | + | [[Sandbox Gameplay]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 10:29, 9 December 2010 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Multiple Endings]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 17:16, 13 December 2010 (CET) | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | [[Mimetic Interfaces]] (from Juuls book) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 13:44, 3 January 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Referees]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 13:43, 4 January 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Limited Communication Abilities]] (ESP Game and Space Alert) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 17:25, 4 January 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Hidden Rules]] (rules that players don't have explicit descriptions of) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 17:52, 4 January 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Varying Rule Set]] (rules that players don't have explicit descriptions of) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 17:52, 4 January 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Proxy Players]] (agents playing for somebody else) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 11:37, 5 January 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Narrative Engrossment]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 20:53, 12 January 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Modifiable Game Interfaces]] (WoW & MUD clients) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 22:03, 12 January 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Expansions]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 20:40, 15 January 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Faucet/Drain]] (economic model in contrast to a closed system, see http://www.mine-control.com/zack/uoecon/slides.html) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 16:50, 17 January 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Ever Increasing Difficulty]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 16:46, 3 February 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Discontinuous Progression]] (since not everything is Arithmetic or Geometric) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 20:40, 15 February 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Event Thresholds]] (from writing Arithmetic Progression, quantitative point at which an event is triggered) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 21:54, 17 February 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Encouraged Constant Player Activity]] (from writing resource caps) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 19:11, 18 February 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Ragequitting]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 08:18, 20 February 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | [[Pubstomping]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 08:18, 20 February 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | [[First Player Tokens]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 08:59, 27 February 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Current Player Tokens]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 08:59, 27 February 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Victory Points]] (as tokens) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 08:59, 27 February 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Physical Enactment]] (LARPs but also SingStar and Rockband) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 23:30, 9 March 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Enactment]] (the activity of representing some activity) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 18:20, 12 March 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Miniatures]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 18:27, 12 March 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Out of Character Conversations]] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 18:43, 12 March 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[In Character Conversations]] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 18:43, 12 March 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Turtling]] (from wikipedia and Mikael Rytterhag's Camping paper) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 12:29, 13 March 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Player-Constructed Worlds]] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 00:51, 20 March 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Scenarios]] (different setups in wargame and RPGs, and Space Alert) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 16:10, 26 March 2011 (CET) | |
| − | + | [[Inhabitants]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 09:36, 2 April 2011 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Jumping]] (duh, including double jumping, e.g. http://www.giantbomb.com/double-jump/92-1/ and http://www.jorisdormans.nl/article.php?ref=artofjumping) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 00:00, 3 April 2011 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Cheat Codes]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 11:25, 4 April 2011 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Powers]] (spells, etc.) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 21:11, 6 April 2011 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Buffs]] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 19:32, 7 April 2011 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Debuffs]] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 19:32, 7 April 2011 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Stealing]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 19:41, 8 April 2011 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Farming]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 20:42, 8 April 2011 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Twinking]] (for WoW) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 20:01, 9 April 2011 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Enforced Ownership]] (Soulbound concept from WoW) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 20:05, 9 April 2011 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Faucet/Sink]] (opposite to [[Closed Economy]]) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 10:14, 10 April 2011 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Micro Management]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 16:38, 10 April 2011 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[System Exploration]] (Exploration of the system...) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 17:33, 12 April 2011 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Agent Needs]] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 13:28, 14 April 2011 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Maintenance]] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 21:21, 14 April 2011 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Production-Consumption Chains]] (flows but the types change) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 13:18, 17 April 2011 (CEST) | |
| − | + | [[Nurturing]] (from Pottering paper) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 21:59, 17 April 2011 (CEST) | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| − | + | [[Calm Flow]] (from Pottering paper) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 21:59, 17 April 2011 (CEST) | |
| − | [[ | + | |
| − | [[ | + | [[Technologies]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 22:42, 20 April 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Maintenance Costs]] (resource drains) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 19:07, 21 April 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Classes]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 07:52, 30 April 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Experience Points]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 01:27, 7 May 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Popup Screens]] (duh; fix link from note in [[Reward Widgets]]) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 19:02, 7 May 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Non-Diegetic Features]] (duh; take parts from [[Diegetically Outstanding Features]] and place here) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 19:05, 7 May 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Unit Formations]] (interface pattern for handling groups of units, e.g. in HoI series and Pik-Min) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 14:38, 8 May 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Saving]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 17:25, 12 May 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Super Combos]] (loong combos, suggested by Johan Wingård) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 20:26, 20 May 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Unlocking]] (Aki Järvinen) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 15:33, 21 May 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Button Bashing]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 19:38, 21 May 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Flags]] (as in Capture the Flag) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 14:49, 22 May 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Resource Sources]] ( [[Resource Locations]], [[Trading]], etc.) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 23:29, 22 May 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Modal Windows]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 21:25, 23 May 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[HUD Buttons]] (Buttons in HUD parts of interfaces, e.g. [[Quests]] in [[FarmVille]] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 21:28, 23 May 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Auctions]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 22:50, 25 May 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Player/System Skill Composites]] (system helping player with actions) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 11:33, 29 May 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Rounds]] (duh; remember hit left, dodge right also) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 14:41, 4 June 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Regenerating Resources]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 09:48, 12 June 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Beat the Leader]] (dynamic has to do with uncommitted and temporary alliances) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 08:48, 14 June 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[Game | + | [[Game Boards]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 09:50, 15 June 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Planning Phases]] (second half of Space Alert for example, Caylus, Dominant Species, Space Hulk video game, Fallout early combat system) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 09:27, 16 June 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Execution Phases]] (second half of Space Alert for example, Caylus, Dominant Species, Space Hulk video game, Fallout early combat system) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 09:27, 16 June 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Money]] (duh; not only for bidding, maintainance, but also as budgeted action points) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 09:36, 19 June 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Limited Number of Uses]] (charges but also resources needed to activate actions) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 15:48, 20 June 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Flip-Flop Events]] (going last and first in two consecutive turns) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 09:17, 24 June 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Exploits]] (unintentional combos in games; Deus Ex example; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploit_(online_gaming)] negative pattern but [[Nomic]]) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 13:32, 10 July 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Generators]] (diegetic game objects that produce other diegetic game elements, e.g. monster generators in Gauntlet or water blocks in Minecraft) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 18:17, 11 July 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Kingmaker Situations]] (see wikipedia kingmaker scenario) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 11:21, 13 July 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Extras]] (not the concept from sports but prepped people playing NPCs, "specially instructed player") --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 11:39, 13 July 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Repeated Domination]] (Domination from Team Fortress; base raping, etc.; don't forget positive and negative feedback loops) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 14:48, 13 July 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Railroading]] (duh; tacka Kalle) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 11:09, 15 July 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Entrenching Gameplay]] (positions become more and more locked; Go, Settlers of Catan, effektivt men också temporärt i RTS och vissa FPS:er; tacka Kalle) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 11:09, 15 July 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Cover]] ? --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 14:58, 18 July 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[Game- | + | [[Open Worlds]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 12:21, 4 August 2011 (CEST) |
| + | |||
| + | [[Game Servers]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 21:52, 4 August 2011 (CEST) | ||
| + | |||
| + | [[User Accounts]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 21:52, 4 August 2011 (CEST) | ||
| − | [[ | + | [[Narration Structures]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 09:05, 8 August 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Player-Generated Narratives]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 09:07, 8 August 2011 (CEST) |
| − | + | suits? --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 13:16, 23 August 2011 (CEST) | |
| − | [[ | + | [[Decks]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 14:15, 26 August 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Mods]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 12:02, 3 September 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Pie Menus]] (duh) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 11:23, 21 September 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Performance Modifiers]] --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 14:24, 22 September 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Hotseating]] (duh, and check Giant Bomb) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 19:03, 25 September 2011 (CEST) |
| − | [[ | + | [[Fake Game Overs]] [Eternal Darkness, Arkham Asylum; thxs Orvar & Jonas) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 08:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST) |
| − | + | === Potentially too specific patterns (mainly from GiantBomb) === | |
| + | Camera Following Projectiles | ||
| − | + | Reticule Magnetism | |
| − | + | Bullet Magnetism | |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | Lock-on | |
| − | + | Dynamic split-screen | |
| − | + | Camera Shift | |
Revision as of 17:29, 2 October 2011
For patterns that have partly or fully been inserted into the wiki, see the category of patterns. See also Renamed Patterns.
Note: not all these patterns should necessary be made...
Note: to make a new pattern, use the Gameplay Design Pattern Template
Note: the suggested patterns are not made as links to avoid hiding patterns that are actually referenced to
Contents
- 1 Patterns
- 1.1 From the cd-rom
- 1.2 Left-overs from the book
- 1.3 New from various sources
- 1.3.1 IPerG: D5.8
- 1.3.2 NPC design with Petri
- 1.3.3 Social NPC design with Petri
- 1.3.4 Dialogue design with Jenny
- 1.3.5 MMOG design by Jenny's master students (Torbjörn Söderqvist & Christian Larsson)
- 1.3.6 Pervasive games with Johan Peitz
- 1.3.7 Unknown
- 1.3.8 New proposals from working with the wiki
- 1.4 Potentially too specific patterns (mainly from GiantBomb)
Patterns
From the cd-rom
Asymmetric Resource Distribution
Cognitive Engrossment (<- Cognitive Immersion )
Collections (<- Collection )
Competitions ( <- Competition )
Conflicts ( <- Conflict )
Constructive Gameplay ( <- Constructive Play )
Deliver (<- Delivery)
Disruption of Focused Attention
Temporary Alliances <- (Dynamic Alliances)
Empowerment - should be related to Illusion of Influence
Game State Overviews ( <- Game State Overview )
Check Points <- Goal Points
Herding <- Herd (check for links to Herd)
Goal Hierarchies ( <- Hierarchy of Goals )
Engrossment ( <- Immersion)
Rock-Paper-Scissors (<- Paper-Rock-Scissors)
Player-Decided Distributions (<- Player-Decided Distribution of Rewards & Penalties)
Production-Consumption Flows ( <- Producer-Consumer )
Progress Indicators ("Progress" announced for quests in Ravenwood Fair)
Resource Generators (tangible game elements now; and break out Generators)
Reversibility ( <- Reversability)
Rewards (don't forget to link to Achievements
Complex Gameplay(<- Right Level of Complexity - same reasoning as below)
Save-Load Cycles (add NPC party spoof from Baldur's gate expansion Throne of Bhaal)
Scores <- Score (several pattern link to Score right now...)
Selectable Set of Goals (<- Selectable Sets of Goals)
Sensory-Motoric Engrossment ( <- Sensory-Motoric Immersion )
Spatial Engrossment ( <- Spatial Immersion )
Symmetric Resource Distribution
Teams ( <- Team Play ) (including clans)
Tick-Based Games (not that ticks can exist in real-time games)
Trade-Offs (<- Tradeoffs )
Left-overs from the book
(find the excel file for this)
New from various sources
IPerG: D5.8
Memorabilia
Mediated Gameplay (where the medium affects the gameplay) <- Unmediated Social Interaction
Coupled Games
Social Rewards
Configurable Gameplay Area
Interruptibility <- Interruptability (because it's spelled so...)
1.14 Hybrid Spaces
1.15 Social Skills
1.16 Real Life Activities Affect Game State
Asynchronous Collaborative Actions
1.21 Negotiable Game Sessions
Negotiable Game Instance Duration
1.23 Negotiable Game Time
Social Roles ( <- Selectable Social Roles )
NPC design with Petri
Visual Body Damage
Dissectible Bodies
Social NPC design with Petri
Binding Promises
Brokering
Competing for Attention
Context Dependent Reactions ( <- Context Dependent Reaction)
Eavesdropping
Either You are with Me or against Me
False Accusations
Favors (<- Favor )
Gain Allies
Guide and Protect
Hierarchical Factions <- Hierarchical Fraction
Linked Destinies
Maintaining Lies
Match-Making
Memory of Important Events
My Enemy’s Enemy is my Friend
Others fortune affects own Mood
Outcast
Outspoken Support
Requesting Support
Social Gatekeeper
Diegetic Social Maintenance <- Social Maintenance
Diegetic Social Norms <- Social Norm
Traitors <- Traitor
Dialogue design with Jenny
Incremental Dialogue Processing
Chunk-based Dialogue Processing
Single-Initiative Dialogues
Mixed Initiative Dialogues
Basic Input Feedback
Barge-In
Canned Text Responses
Thematically Consistent Dialogues (<- Diegetically Consistent Dialogue)
Context Dependent Dialogues ( <- Context Dependent Dialogue )
Gameplay Integrated Conversation ( <- Gameplay Integrated Conversation)
Illocutionary Interfaces ( <- Illocutionary Interface )
Location-Specific Dialogues ( <- Location-Specific Dialogues)
Character-Specific Dialogues ( <- Character-Specific Dialogue )
Colloquial Mastery
Delicate Phrasing
MMOG design by Jenny's master students (Torbjörn Söderqvist & Christian Larsson)
Loot Rights
Carryables
Useables
Noticeables
Creatables
Stackables
Disposables
Enterables/Mountables
Suggested
Stealables
Dropables/Placables
Social Status Symbols
Pervasive games with Johan Peitz
Connected Games (from Johan's master thesis; Chao Adventure 1 + 2 with Sonic Adventure 1 + 2 for the VMU / DC, also Zombie Revenge and Quake III Arena to unlock cheat codes; Skies of Arcadia + Pinta's Quest)
Actor Detachment
Artifact-Artifact Proximity
Artifact-Location Proximity
Configurable Gameplay Area
Critical Gameplay Design
Decontextability
Gameplay Changes Perception of Real World Phenomena
Minimalized Social Weight
Player-Avatar Proximity
Real Life Activities Affect Game State
Real World Knowledge Advantages
Social Adaptability
Unknown
Persistant State World
Fixed Real-World Exchange Rate
Death game mönstret
Point of No Return
New proposals from working with the wiki
Attention Demanding [grew out of rewriting real-time games] --Staffan Björk 16:08, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Togetherness [grew out of rewriting real-time games, and makes Karl happy maybe] --Staffan Björk 16:18, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Option Interfaces [grew out of real-time games, pop-up choices outside the main game interface, does this exists already partly?] --Staffan Björk 17:58, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
Friend Lists [from many online games] --Staffan Björk 11:25, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Steadily Decreasing Resources [From writing Unwinnable Games] --Staffan Björk 11:43, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Turnovers [From playing Bloodbowl] --Staffan Björk 20:43, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Game Time Manipulation [From writing on irreversible events, example are Braid, save-load cycles, prince of persia] --Staffan Björk 15:27, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Asymmetric Roles (already covered by asymmetrical abilities? e.g. Allegiance, where one player steers the ship/bombs and one sits in a turret to keep interceptors at bay--Karl Bergström 14:33, 20 November 2009 (UTC))
Value of Effort (that players have real or perceived valuable outcomes of the effort they put into the gameplay) --Staffan Björk 13:41, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
Positive Feedback Loops (from updating the names of the Arithmetic and Geometric patterns, and Rules of Play; farms in CityVille and Empires & Allies) --Staffan Björk 12:10, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Negative Feedback Loops (from updating the names of the Arithmetic and Geometric patterns, and Rules of Play; Questions in Empires & Allies that give less money than they cost to do) --Staffan Björk 12:10, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Game Lobbies (for finding games and friends, e.g. in L4D) --Staffan Björk 10:28, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Group Belonging (L4D, aesthetics work) --Staffan Björk 11:06, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Campaigns (duh) --Staffan Björk 14:30, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Community Functionality --Staffan Björk 15:07, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Voting --Staffan Björk 12:10, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Player Decided Rule Setup --Staffan Björk 12:10, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Game-Defined Vocabulary (quick responses in Battlefield and L4D series) --Staffan Björk 12:29, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
PvE (Player versus Environment; WoW) --Staffan Björk 11:13, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
PvP (Player versus Player; WoW) --Staffan Björk 11:13, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Kiting (drawing monsters out and attacking them) --Staffan Björk 11:15, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Mutual Enemies (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Excluding Groups (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Inherent Mistrust (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Coordination (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper - include WoW marker example by Bennerstedt) --Staffan Björk 12:28, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
Sabotage (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Simultaneous Challenges (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Virtual Co-Presence (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Mutual Experiences (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
FUBAR Enjoyment (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Mutual FUBAR Enjoyment (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Team Accomplishments (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Excise (from mentions by Karl Bergström; see also Juul's dead time concept) --Staffan Björk 16:46, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Limited Gameplay Time (that either game sessions or play sessions are designed to be limited in time or moves) --Staffan Björk 10:11, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Renewable Resources --Staffan Björk 11:50, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Initial Personalization (that one can customized avatars before ones gameplay begins) --Staffan Björk 07:46, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
Automated Responses (agents reacting automatic to detected objects and events) --Staffan Björk 06:16, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Attributes (duh...) --Staffan Björk 06:38, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Feats (duh...) --Staffan Björk 06:38, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Advantages (duh...) --Staffan Björk 06:38, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Disadvantages (duh...) --Staffan Björk 06:38, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Customizable Development (choices when having character development) --Staffan Björk 06:48, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
Player Time Investments (basically, that players have spent time in the game to either master skills or create/shape something in the game) --Staffan Björk 06:53, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
Avatar Personalization (cosmetic personalization of avatars) --Staffan Björk 07:06, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
Deck Building (as in Dominion and Magic) --Staffan Björk 17:18, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Development Trees (as in civ but also as in D&D and Borderlands, Technologies link) --Staffan Björk 11:45, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
King Maker (wasn't this in the first collection?) --Staffan Björk 14:35, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Emergent Gameplay (1+1=3) --Staffan Björk 07:18, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
Gameplay Recording (e.g. Battlefield 2, Sims, the Movies) --Staffan Björk 10:48, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Bragging --Staffan Björk 10:58, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Cartel Formation (based on non-game reasons) --Staffan Björk 16:03, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
Wave (from the GOP paper) --Staffan Björk 07:22, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
Character Levels (duh) --Staffan Björk 15:02, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Unobserved Game Events (from inserting patterns from Petri's PhD thesis) --Staffan Björk 07:39, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Character Memories (from inserting patterns from Petri's PhD thesis) --Staffan Björk 07:56, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Game Prophecies (information from the game what will happen in the future of the game) --Staffan Björk 07:58, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Mandatory Goals (duh) --Staffan Björk 14:09, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Self-Facilitated Rules (as Self-Facilitated Games but only for rules and can be just a part of the rules) --Staffan Björk 22:03, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
Infiltrate (pretending to be in a group) --Staffan Björk 07:18, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
fgh effect (that the 3rd guy is the crook, whomever the 3rd guy turns out to be, from newish Gamma World rules) --Staffan Björk 08:21, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
Guilds (duh) --Staffan Björk 13:11, 31 August 2010 (CEST)
Secret Goals (duh) --[[--Staffan Björk 15:11, 10 September 2010 (CEST)User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 12:11, 3 September 2010 (CEST)
Intrigue (secret negotiations) --Staffan Björk 12:13, 3 September 2010 (CEST)
Effect Descriptions (descriptions of the game effect of an action) --Staffan Björk 10:22, 7 September 2010 (CEST)
Tragedy of the Commons (breakout from Social Dilemmas?) --Staffan Björk 16:47, 7 September 2010 (CEST)
Enforced Goals (goals you need to succeed with to complete or win a game) --Staffan Björk 10:35, 9 September 2010 (CEST)
Indirectly Aggressive Actions (A secondary effect to an action that improves your chances in which opponents ability to improve their absolute position is reduced) --Staffan Björk 10:57, 9 September 2010 (CEST)
Directly Aggressive Actions (Actions that reduced opponents absolute positions in the game) --Staffan Björk 10:57, 9 September 2010 (CEST)
Game Element Removal (duh) --Staffan Björk 16:54, 9 September 2010 (CEST)
Game-Induced Player Social Status (re-introduced from Social Status ) --Staffan Björk 10:51, 10 September 2010 (CEST)
Upgrading (the event of giving new or improved abilities) --Staffan Björk 14:39, 10 September 2010 (CEST)
Tokens (duh) --Staffan Björk 15:11, 10 September 2010 (CEST)
Performance (theatrical or show-off expression) --Staffan Björk 12:09, 14 September 2010 (CEST)
Chain Reactions --Staffan Björk 12:48, 17 September 2010 (CEST)
Secondary Interface Screens (e.g. Inventories or Character Sheets - note conflicts in Game Worlds, breaks Diegetic Consistency if creating Game Pauses) --Staffan Björk 11:54, 21 September 2010 (CEST)
Character Sheets --Staffan Björk 11:54, 21 September 2010 (CEST)
HUD Interfaces (also add Screen Splatter, Giantbomb) --Staffan Björk 12:17, 21 September 2010 (CEST)
Game Over (duh) --Staffan Björk 10:57, 29 September 2010 (CEST)
Indirect Conflicts (from writing Algorithmic Agents) --Staffan Björk 11:04, 18 November 2010 (CET)
Glory Rewards (Social Rewards?, Hallford & Hallford, 2001, Swords and Circuitry: A designer’s guide to computer role playing games. Roseville, CA: Prime Publishing, p. 158) --Staffan Björk 14:03, 26 November 2010 (CET)
Sustenance Rewards (Hallford & Hallford, 2001 p. 158) --Staffan Björk 14:03, 26 November 2010 (CET)
Access Rewards (Hallford & Hallford, 2001 p. 158) --Staffan Björk 14:03, 26 November 2010 (CET)
Facilitating Rewards (Hallford & Hallford, 2001 p. 158) --Staffan Björk 14:03, 26 November 2010 (CET)
Energy Penalties (Energy punishment, Juul, 2009, p.238) --Staffan Björk 17:03, 26 November 2010 (CET)
Life Penalties (Life punishment, Juul, 2009, p.238) --Staffan Björk 17:03, 26 November 2010 (CET)
Game Termination Penalties (Game termination punishment, Juul, 2009, p.238) --Staffan Björk 17:03, 26 November 2010 (CET)
Setback Penalties (Setback punishment, Juul, 2009, p.238) --Staffan Björk 17:03, 26 November 2010 (CET)
Public Interfaces (interfaces that are accessible to several people at the same time, e.g. Flight Control on the iPad) --Staffan Björk 19:19, 27 November 2010 (CET)
Appointments (related to Encouraged Return Visits; taken from the SVNGR mechanic Appointment Dynamic, http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/)
Incremental Information Delivery (from the SVNGR mechanic Cascading Information Theory, http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/)
Communal Problem Solving (from the SVNGR mechanic Communal Discovery, http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/)
Lottery (from the SVNGR mechanic Lottery, http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/)
Shell Game (from the SVNGR mechanic Shell Game, http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/)
Sandbox Gameplay (duh) --Staffan Björk 10:29, 9 December 2010 (CET)
Multiple Endings (duh) --Staffan Björk 17:16, 13 December 2010 (CET)
Mimetic Interfaces (from Juuls book) --Staffan Björk 13:44, 3 January 2011 (CET)
Referees (duh) --Staffan Björk 13:43, 4 January 2011 (CET)
Limited Communication Abilities (ESP Game and Space Alert) --Staffan Björk 17:25, 4 January 2011 (CET)
Hidden Rules (rules that players don't have explicit descriptions of) --Staffan Björk 17:52, 4 January 2011 (CET)
Varying Rule Set (rules that players don't have explicit descriptions of) --Staffan Björk 17:52, 4 January 2011 (CET)
Proxy Players (agents playing for somebody else) --Staffan Björk 11:37, 5 January 2011 (CET)
Narrative Engrossment (duh) --Staffan Björk 20:53, 12 January 2011 (CET)
Modifiable Game Interfaces (WoW & MUD clients) --Staffan Björk 22:03, 12 January 2011 (CET)
Expansions (duh) --Staffan Björk 20:40, 15 January 2011 (CET)
Faucet/Drain (economic model in contrast to a closed system, see http://www.mine-control.com/zack/uoecon/slides.html) --Staffan Björk 16:50, 17 January 2011 (CET)
Ever Increasing Difficulty (duh) --Staffan Björk 16:46, 3 February 2011 (CET)
Discontinuous Progression (since not everything is Arithmetic or Geometric) --Staffan Björk 20:40, 15 February 2011 (CET)
Event Thresholds (from writing Arithmetic Progression, quantitative point at which an event is triggered) --Staffan Björk 21:54, 17 February 2011 (CET)
Encouraged Constant Player Activity (from writing resource caps) --Staffan Björk 19:11, 18 February 2011 (CET)
Ragequitting (duh) --Staffan Björk 08:18, 20 February 2011 (CET)
Pubstomping (duh) --Staffan Björk 08:18, 20 February 2011 (CET)
First Player Tokens (duh) --Staffan Björk 08:59, 27 February 2011 (CET)
Current Player Tokens (duh) --Staffan Björk 08:59, 27 February 2011 (CET)
Victory Points (as tokens) --Staffan Björk 08:59, 27 February 2011 (CET)
Physical Enactment (LARPs but also SingStar and Rockband) --Staffan Björk 23:30, 9 March 2011 (CET)
Enactment (the activity of representing some activity) --Staffan Björk 18:20, 12 March 2011 (CET)
Miniatures (duh) --Staffan Björk 18:27, 12 March 2011 (CET)
Out of Character Conversations --Staffan Björk 18:43, 12 March 2011 (CET)
In Character Conversations --Staffan Björk 18:43, 12 March 2011 (CET)
Turtling (from wikipedia and Mikael Rytterhag's Camping paper) --Staffan Björk 12:29, 13 March 2011 (CET)
Player-Constructed Worlds --Staffan Björk 00:51, 20 March 2011 (CET)
Scenarios (different setups in wargame and RPGs, and Space Alert) --Staffan Björk 16:10, 26 March 2011 (CET)
Inhabitants (duh) --Staffan Björk 09:36, 2 April 2011 (CEST)
Jumping (duh, including double jumping, e.g. http://www.giantbomb.com/double-jump/92-1/ and http://www.jorisdormans.nl/article.php?ref=artofjumping) --Staffan Björk 00:00, 3 April 2011 (CEST)
Cheat Codes (duh) --Staffan Björk 11:25, 4 April 2011 (CEST)
Powers (spells, etc.) --Staffan Björk 21:11, 6 April 2011 (CEST)
Buffs --Staffan Björk 19:32, 7 April 2011 (CEST)
Debuffs --Staffan Björk 19:32, 7 April 2011 (CEST)
Stealing (duh) --Staffan Björk 19:41, 8 April 2011 (CEST)
Farming (duh) --Staffan Björk 20:42, 8 April 2011 (CEST)
Twinking (for WoW) --Staffan Björk 20:01, 9 April 2011 (CEST)
Enforced Ownership (Soulbound concept from WoW) --Staffan Björk 20:05, 9 April 2011 (CEST)
Faucet/Sink (opposite to Closed Economy) --Staffan Björk 10:14, 10 April 2011 (CEST)
Micro Management (duh) --Staffan Björk 16:38, 10 April 2011 (CEST)
System Exploration (Exploration of the system...) --Staffan Björk 17:33, 12 April 2011 (CEST)
Agent Needs --Staffan Björk 13:28, 14 April 2011 (CEST)
Maintenance --Staffan Björk 21:21, 14 April 2011 (CEST)
Production-Consumption Chains (flows but the types change) --Staffan Björk 13:18, 17 April 2011 (CEST)
Nurturing (from Pottering paper) --Staffan Björk 21:59, 17 April 2011 (CEST)
Calm Flow (from Pottering paper) --Staffan Björk 21:59, 17 April 2011 (CEST)
Technologies (duh) --Staffan Björk 22:42, 20 April 2011 (CEST)
Maintenance Costs (resource drains) --Staffan Björk 19:07, 21 April 2011 (CEST)
Classes (duh) --Staffan Björk 07:52, 30 April 2011 (CEST)
Experience Points (duh) --Staffan Björk 01:27, 7 May 2011 (CEST)
Popup Screens (duh; fix link from note in Reward Widgets) --Staffan Björk 19:02, 7 May 2011 (CEST)
Non-Diegetic Features (duh; take parts from Diegetically Outstanding Features and place here) --Staffan Björk 19:05, 7 May 2011 (CEST)
Unit Formations (interface pattern for handling groups of units, e.g. in HoI series and Pik-Min) --Staffan Björk 14:38, 8 May 2011 (CEST)
Saving (duh) --Staffan Björk 17:25, 12 May 2011 (CEST)
Super Combos (loong combos, suggested by Johan Wingård) --Staffan Björk 20:26, 20 May 2011 (CEST)
Unlocking (Aki Järvinen) --Staffan Björk 15:33, 21 May 2011 (CEST)
Button Bashing (duh) --Staffan Björk 19:38, 21 May 2011 (CEST)
Flags (as in Capture the Flag) --Staffan Björk 14:49, 22 May 2011 (CEST)
Resource Sources ( Resource Locations, Trading, etc.) --Staffan Björk 23:29, 22 May 2011 (CEST)
Modal Windows (duh) --Staffan Björk 21:25, 23 May 2011 (CEST)
HUD Buttons (Buttons in HUD parts of interfaces, e.g. Quests in FarmVille --Staffan Björk 21:28, 23 May 2011 (CEST)
Auctions (duh) --Staffan Björk 22:50, 25 May 2011 (CEST)
Player/System Skill Composites (system helping player with actions) --Staffan Björk 11:33, 29 May 2011 (CEST)
Rounds (duh; remember hit left, dodge right also) --Staffan Björk 14:41, 4 June 2011 (CEST)
Regenerating Resources (duh) --Staffan Björk 09:48, 12 June 2011 (CEST)
Beat the Leader (dynamic has to do with uncommitted and temporary alliances) --Staffan Björk 08:48, 14 June 2011 (CEST)
Game Boards (duh) --Staffan Björk 09:50, 15 June 2011 (CEST)
Planning Phases (second half of Space Alert for example, Caylus, Dominant Species, Space Hulk video game, Fallout early combat system) --Staffan Björk 09:27, 16 June 2011 (CEST)
Execution Phases (second half of Space Alert for example, Caylus, Dominant Species, Space Hulk video game, Fallout early combat system) --Staffan Björk 09:27, 16 June 2011 (CEST)
Money (duh; not only for bidding, maintainance, but also as budgeted action points) --Staffan Björk 09:36, 19 June 2011 (CEST)
Limited Number of Uses (charges but also resources needed to activate actions) --Staffan Björk 15:48, 20 June 2011 (CEST)
Flip-Flop Events (going last and first in two consecutive turns) --Staffan Björk 09:17, 24 June 2011 (CEST)
Exploits (unintentional combos in games; Deus Ex example; [1] negative pattern but Nomic) --Staffan Björk 13:32, 10 July 2011 (CEST)
Generators (diegetic game objects that produce other diegetic game elements, e.g. monster generators in Gauntlet or water blocks in Minecraft) --Staffan Björk 18:17, 11 July 2011 (CEST)
Kingmaker Situations (see wikipedia kingmaker scenario) --Staffan Björk 11:21, 13 July 2011 (CEST)
Extras (not the concept from sports but prepped people playing NPCs, "specially instructed player") --Staffan Björk 11:39, 13 July 2011 (CEST)
Repeated Domination (Domination from Team Fortress; base raping, etc.; don't forget positive and negative feedback loops) --Staffan Björk 14:48, 13 July 2011 (CEST)
Railroading (duh; tacka Kalle) --Staffan Björk 11:09, 15 July 2011 (CEST)
Entrenching Gameplay (positions become more and more locked; Go, Settlers of Catan, effektivt men också temporärt i RTS och vissa FPS:er; tacka Kalle) --Staffan Björk 11:09, 15 July 2011 (CEST)
Cover ? --Staffan Björk 14:58, 18 July 2011 (CEST)
Open Worlds (duh) --Staffan Björk 12:21, 4 August 2011 (CEST)
Game Servers (duh) --Staffan Björk 21:52, 4 August 2011 (CEST)
User Accounts (duh) --Staffan Björk 21:52, 4 August 2011 (CEST)
Narration Structures (duh) --Staffan Björk 09:05, 8 August 2011 (CEST)
Player-Generated Narratives (duh) --Staffan Björk 09:07, 8 August 2011 (CEST)
suits? --Staffan Björk 13:16, 23 August 2011 (CEST)
Decks (duh) --Staffan Björk 14:15, 26 August 2011 (CEST)
Mods (duh) --Staffan Björk 12:02, 3 September 2011 (CEST)
Pie Menus (duh) --Staffan Björk 11:23, 21 September 2011 (CEST)
Performance Modifiers --Staffan Björk 14:24, 22 September 2011 (CEST)
Hotseating (duh, and check Giant Bomb) --Staffan Björk 19:03, 25 September 2011 (CEST)
Fake Game Overs [Eternal Darkness, Arkham Asylum; thxs Orvar & Jonas) --Staffan Björk 08:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST)
Potentially too specific patterns (mainly from GiantBomb)
Camera Following Projectiles
Reticule Magnetism
Bullet Magnetism
Lock-on
Dynamic split-screen
Camera Shift
