Ambiguous Responses

The ability of agents to gives responses that can be interpreted in two or more ways.

Conversations in games between players and

This pattern is a still a stub.

Note: Gamers have discusses Ambiguous Responses is relation to dialogues in games such as the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series but this has been related to that the options players are provided with are ambiguous, i.e. they may seem to indicate that the player character will act in a certain way but when the option is chosen he or she performs in another way.

Examples

As a currently, no examples are listen here.

Using the pattern

Naturally, free-text communication between humans, e.g. through Chat Channels, makes the presence of Ambiguous Responses possible but does not guarantee that it occurs.

Information Passing

Consequences

Chat Channels Tension Uncertainty of Information

Relations

Can Modulate

Algorithmic Agents

History

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