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Patterns

From the cd-rom

Ability Losses

Achilles' Heels

Alliances

Alternative Reality

Anticipation

Area Control

Asymmetric Abilities

Asymmetric Goals

Asymmetric Information

Asymmetric Resource Distribution

Asynchronous Games

Attention Swapping

Balancing Effects

Betting

Bidding

Bluffing

Book-Keeping Tokens

Boss Monsters

Budgeted Action Points

Switches (<-Buttons)

Cameras

Camping

Card Hands

Cards

Character Development

Characters

Chargers

Closed Economies

Closure Points

Clues

Cognitive Engrossment (<- Cognitive Immersion )

Collecting

Collections (<- Collection )

Combat

Committed Goals

Competence Areas

Competitions ( <- Competition )

Conceal

Configuration

Conflicts ( <- Conflict )

Connection

Constructive Play

Consumers

Contact

Container

Continuous Goals

Controllers

Converters

Cooperation

Creative Control

Damage

Traps (<- Deadly Traps)

Decreased Abilities

Dedicated Game Facilitators

Deliver (<- Delivery)

Dexterity-Based Actions

Dice

Diminishing Returns

Direct Information

Discard Piles

Disruption of Focused Attention

Downtime

Dynamic Alliances

Dynamic Goal Characteristics

Early Elimination

Easter Eggs

Eliminate

Empowerment - should be related to Illusion of Influence

Enclosure

Ephemeral Goals

Evade

Excluding Goals

Experimenting

Exploration

Extended Actions

Extra-Game Actions

Extra-Game Information

Focus Loci

Fog of War

Freedom of Choice

Gain Competence

Gain Information

Gain Ownership

Game Mastery

Game Pauses

Game State Overviews ( <- Game State Overview )

Game World Navigation

Ghosts

Goal Indicators

Check Points <- Goal Points

God Views

God's Finger

Guard

Handles

Helpers

Herd

Goal Hierarchies ( <- Hierarchy of Goals )

Hovering Closures

Identification

Illusionary Rewards

Engrossment ( <- Immersion)

Imperfect Information

Improved Abilities

Inaccessible Areas

Incompatible Goals

Indirect Control

Indirect Information

Individual Penalties

Individual Rewards

Interferable Goals

Investments

Invisible Walls

King of the Hill

Last Man Standing

Leaps of Faith

Limited Foresight

Limited Planning Ability

Limited Resources

Limited Set of Actions

Lives

Maneuvering

Memorizing

Meta Games

Moveable Tiles

Movement

Movement Limitations

Mutual Goals

Near Miss Indicators

Negotiation

Never Ending Stories

New Abilities

Non-Renewable Resources

Obstacles

Optional Goals

Orthogonal Unit Differentiation

Outcome Indicators

Overcome

Ownership

Paper-Rock-Scissors

Penalties

Perceivable Margins

Perfect Information

Pick-Ups

Player Balance

Player Defined Goals

Player Elimination

Player Killing

Player-Decided Distribution of Rewards & Penalties

Polyathlons

Predefined Goals

Predictable Consequences

Preventing Goals

Privileged Abilities

Privileged Movement

Producer-Consumer

Producers

Progress Indicators ("Progress" announced for quests in Ravenwood Fair)

Public Information

Puzzle Solving

Quick Games

Races <- Race

Reconfigurable Game World

Reconnaissance

Red Herrings

Red Queen Dilemmas

Renewable Resources

Replayability

Rescue

Resource Generators

Resource Locations

Resource Management

Resources

Reversibility ( <- Reversability)

Rewards

Rhythm-Based Actions

Complex Gameplay(<- Right Level of Complexity - same reasoning as below)

Risk/Reward

Role Reversal

Save Points

Save-Load Cycles

Score

Secret Alliances

Secret Resources

Selectable Set of Goals (<- Selectable Sets of Goals)

Sensory-Motoric Engrossment ( <- Sensory-Motoric Immersion )

Shared Penalties

Shared Resources

Shared Rewards

Shrinking Game World

Skills

Smooth Learning Curves

Social Dilemmas

Social Interaction

Social Organizations

Spatial Engrossment ( <- Spatial Immersion )

Spawn Points

Spawning

Spectators

Stealth

Stimulated Planning

Storytelling

Strategic Knowledge

Strategic Locations

Supporting Goals

Surprises

Survive

Symmetric Goals

Symmetric Information

Symmetric Resource Distribution

Symmetry

Synchronous Games

Team Balance

Team Development

Team Elimination

Teams ( <- Team Play )

The Show Must Go On

Third-Person Views

Tick-Based Games

Tiebreakers

Tied Results

Tile-Laying

Tiles

Timing

Tools

Tournaments

Traces

Tradeoffs

Trading

Trans-Game Information

Transfer of Control

Traverse

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

Unmediated Social Interaction

Chat Forums

Coupled Games

Social Rewards

Configurable Gameplay Area

Interruptibility <- Interruptability (because it's spelled so...)

Mutual Experiences <- Common Experiences

Game Element Trading

1.14 Hybrid Spaces

1.15 Social Skills

1.16 Real Life Activities Affect Game State

Asynchronous Collaborative Actions

Functional Roles ( <- Selectable Functional Roles )

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

Diegetically Consistent Dialogues (<- Diegetically Consistent Dialogue)

Context Dependent Dialogues ( <- Context Dependent Dialogue )

Gameplay Integrated Conversation ( <- Gameplay Integrated Conversation)

Illocutionary Interface ( <- 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)

Inventory Management

Loot

Loot Rights

Carryables

Tradeables

Equipables

Useables

Deteriorables

Noticeables

Creatables

Stackables

Disposables

Enterables/Mountables

Stationary Property

Mobile Property

Suggested

Stealables

Set Items

Dropables/Placables

Social Status Symbols

Pervasive games with Johan Peitz

Actor Detachment

Artifact-Artifact Proximity

Artifact-Location Proximity

Configurable Gameplay Area

Critical Gameplay Design

Crossmedia Gameplay

Decontextability

Extra-Game Input

Gameplay Changes Perception of Real World Phenomena

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

The Rabbit Hole Invitation

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) --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) --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)

Location-Fixed Abilities (machine guns in L4D) --Staffan Björk 16:34, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Inventories --Staffan Björk 16:40, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Limited Inventory (L4D) --Staffan Björk 16:40, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Variable Accuracy (L4D, player skill, character skill, equipment) --Staffan Björk 16:45, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Group Belonging (L4D, aesthetics work) --Staffan Björk 11:06, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Split-Screen View (from writing about local multiplayer console games) --Staffan Björk 13:40, 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)

Transferable Tools (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) --Staffan Björk 16:46, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Destructible Objects (typically barrels in FPSes) --Staffan Björk 17:06, 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 Resource --Staffan Björk 11:50, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Always Vulnerable (games where a player's character, country, etc. is possible to attack even when the player is not playing, e.g. Eve Online) --Staffan Björk 12:15, 2 March 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)

Quick Time Events (see also the wikipedia entry) --Staffan Björk 08:56, 11 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) --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)

Vulnerabilities (as Achielle's heels but not as strong) --Staffan Björk 08:02, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Emergent Gameplay (1+1=3) --Staffan Björk 07:18, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Replays --Staffan Björk 07:49, 30 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)

Equipment Slots (from Torchlight but many RPGs) --Staffan Björk 13:56, 16 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)

Feigned Die Rolls (Rolls to that seem to be about something but isn't, see Fine p.117-118) --Staffan Björk 08:21, 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)

Parties (group of characters,avatars working as a group) --Staffan Björk 16:45, 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. Inventory or Character Sheets) --Staffan Björk 11:54, 21 September 2010 (CEST)

Character Sheets --Staffan Björk 11:54, 21 September 2010 (CEST)

HUD Interfaces --Staffan Björk 12:17, 21 September 2010 (CEST)

Game Over (duh) --Staffan Björk 10:57, 29 September 2010 (CEST)

Line-of-Sight (from making a note on Aim & Shoot) --Staffan Björk 12:45, 6 November 2010 (CET)

Indirect Conflicts (from writing Algorithmic Agents) --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) --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 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/)

Real World Game Space (that the game space/game world is defined as a subsection of the real world) --Staffan Björk 09:24, 8 December 2010 (CET)

Pervasive Gameplay (duh; maybe def from McGonigal's PhD) --Staffan Björk 09:29, 8 December 2010 (CET)

Ubiquitous Gameplay (duh; maybe def from McGonigal's PhD) --Staffan Björk 09:29, 8 December 2010 (CET)

Self-Service Kiosks (providing different type of services on specific spots) --Staffan Björk 14:49, 8 December 2010 (CET)

Equipment (things that can be equipped, close but not same as tools) --Staffan Björk 10:03, 9 December 2010 (CET)

Game Items (things can that can be interacted with beyond in relation to movement) --Staffan Björk 10:07, 9 December 2010 (CET)

Abilities (diegetic actions that players can choose to perform) --Staffan Björk 10:07, 9 December 2010 (CET)

Sandbox Gameplay (duh) --Staffan Björk 10:29, 9 December 2010 (CET)

Persistent Game World Changes (changes that don't just go away and don't involve manipulating game items) --Staffan Björk 14:18, 9 December 2010 (CET)

Multiple Endings (duh) --Staffan Björk 17:16, 13 December 2010 (CET)

Crafting (can include mini-games or not) --Staffan Björk 16:20, 22 December 2010 (CET)

Cosmetic Game Items (duh) --Staffan Björk 18:02, 31 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)

Player Characters (duh) --Staffan Björk 14:09, 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)

Zone of Control (duh) --Staffan Björk 17:38, 9 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)

Health (duh) --Staffan Björk 22:52, 12 January 2011 (CET)

Warp Zones (ways of connecting different parts of the game world, see Wikipedia) --Staffan Björk 23:11, 14 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)

Alternate Reality Gameplay (duh) --Staffan Björk 17:16, 27 January 2011 (CET)

Ever Increasing Difficulty (duh) --Staffan Björk 16:46, 3 February 2011 (CET)

Sidegrades (TF2 heavy weapon; Brice Clocher & Jonas Jacobsson) (For each skill category, players can select one from a set of alternative, yet similar skills.) --Staffan Björk 13:25, 10 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)

Installations (stationary tools) --Staffan Björk 09:30, 20 February 2011 (CET)

Global High Score Lists --Staffan Björk 21:21, 24 February 2011 (CET)

First Player Token (duh) --Staffan Björk 08:59, 27 February 2011 (CET)

Current Player Token (duh) --Staffan Björk 08:59, 27 February 2011 (CET)

Victory Points (as tokens) --Staffan Björk 08:59, 27 February 2011 (CET)

Chips (duh) --Staffan Björk 22:04, 1 March 2011 (CET)

Drafting (ticket to ride, thunderstone, dominion) --Staffan Björk 21:10, 4 March 2011 (CET)

Trick Taking (duh) --Staffan Björk 09:57, 5 March 2011 (CET)

Invulnerability (duh) --Staffan Björk 22:01, 8 March 2011 (CET)

Physical Enactment (LARPs but also SingStar and Rockband) --Staffan Björk 23:30, 9 March 2011 (CET)

Abstract Player Constructs ((countries, civilizations, plantations, etc. that players control) --Staffan Björk 18:18, 12 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)

Choke Points (level design) --Staffan Björk 10:47, 14 March 2011 (CET)

Friendly Fire (duh) --Staffan Björk 10:24, 17 March 2011 (CET)

Sidequests --Staffan Björk 21:53, 19 March 2011 (CET)

Main Quest --Staffan Björk 22:02, 19 March 2011 (CET)

Player-Constructed Worlds --Staffan Björk 00:51, 20 March 2011 (CET)

Scripted Sequences (Half-Life's answer to cutscenes) --Staffan Björk 20:24, 20 March 2011 (CET)

Destructables --Staffan Björk 17:45, 21 March 2011 (CET)

Weapons (duh) --Staffan Björk 23:34, 21 March 2011 (CET)

Back-to-Back Game Sessions (playing 2-player games twice and switiching sides) --Staffan Björk 15:30, 26 March 2011 (CET)

Rotating Starting Player (rotating starting player between game instances or phases to balance gameplay) --Staffan Björk 15:30, 26 March 2011 (CET)

Scenarios (different setups in wargame and RPGs, and Space Alert) --Staffan Björk 16:10, 26 March 2011 (CET)

Sets (Collection of a number of different game items) --Staffan Björk 14:48, 28 March 2011 (CEST)

Vision Modes (from Jonas' ecological approach paper) --Staffan Björk 22:23, 28 March 2011 (CEST)

Point of Interest Indication (From Jonas' ecological approach paper, and Automatic Response) --Staffan Björk 22:23, 28 March 2011 (CEST)