Difference between revisions of "Score Tracks"
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=== Examples === | === Examples === | ||
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| + | While the amount of [[Movement]] one should make on [[Score Tracks]] is typically given, i.e. the amount of points on has just achieved, slight variations are possible. [[Ursuppe]] for example lets players who reach an already occupied spot ''skip'' ahead to the first free spot on the track. | ||
=== Diegetic Aspects === | === Diegetic Aspects === | ||
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== Relations == | == Relations == | ||
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[[Scores]] | [[Scores]] | ||
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[[Temporary Alliances]] | [[Temporary Alliances]] | ||
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=== Can Modulate === | === Can Modulate === | ||
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=== Can Be Instantiated By === | === Can Be Instantiated By === | ||
=== Can Be Modulated By === | === Can Be Modulated By === | ||
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=== Possible Closure Effects === | === Possible Closure Effects === | ||
Revision as of 07:19, 15 June 2011
A track to show players' scores.
Games with scores need a way for keeping track of these. While simply having a token for each point (and possibly some with higher values) is the most obvious reusable solution for non-computerized games, having Score Tracks on which each players has one lowers the number of tokens need.
Contents
Examples
Pachisi (and its offspring Ludo) is an early example of a game with Score Tracks. They are still quite common in Board Games, be it casual Party Games such as Balderdash or Pictionary, or more complex games such as Amun-Re, Carcassonne, Dominant Species, Inca Empire, Egizia, and Ursuppe. They are not so common in Category:Computer Games since players' scores can there be displayed more compactly in their own individual areas of the interface with is updated by the computer as gameplay progresses.
Using the pattern
While the amount of Movement one should make on Score Tracks is typically given, i.e. the amount of points on has just achieved, slight variations are possible. Ursuppe for example lets players who reach an already occupied spot skip ahead to the first free spot on the track.
Diegetic Aspects
Building on earlier sources[1], Parlett argues that it "seems intuitively obvious" that the use of Score Tracks led to the development of games with Races[2], both on a gameplay and thematic level.
Interface Aspects
Consequences
Relations
Can Instantiate
with ...
Can Modulate
Can Be Instantiated By
Can Be Modulated By
Possible Closure Effects
Potentially Conflicting With
History
New pattern created in this wiki.
References
- ↑ Erasmus, C. J. (1950). Patolli, Pachisi, and the Limitation of Possibilities, Southwestern Journal of Antropology, 6 (Winter 1950), pp. 369-387 (as reprinted in Avedon, E. M. & Sutton-Smith, B. (1971). The Study of Games, pp. 109-129).
- ↑ Parlett, D. Oxford History of Board Games, p. 35. ISBN-10: 0192129988.
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