Difference between revisions of "Emotional Attachment"

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The ability of agents to have noticeable emotional relations inside the game world to the diegetic phenomena in that world.

Examples

Using the pattern

Characters

Diegetic Aspects

Interface Aspects

Narrative Aspects

Consequences

Relations

Can Instantiate

Can Modulate

Algorithmic Agents

Can Be Instantiated By

Actions Have Diegetically Social Consequences

Can Be Modulated By

Potentially Conflicting With

History

A rewrite of a pattern that was part of the original collection in the paper Gameplay Design Patterns for Believable Non-Player Characters^[1].

References

1. ↑ Lankoski, P. & Björk, S. (2007) Gameplay Design Patterns for Believable Non-Player Characters. Proceedings of DiGRA 2007.

Acknowledgments