Individual Rewards

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Examples

Anti-Examples

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Using the pattern

Can Modulate

Collaborative Actions, Competition, Conflicts, Cooperation, Mutual Goals, Single-Player Games, Social Statuses,

For apparent reasons, the same Rewards cannot both be Individual Rewards and Shared Rewards. However, Altruistic Actions can make Shared Rewards into individual ones if players can renounce their right to parts of the Shared Rewards.

Consequences

Rather obviously, Individual Rewards is a type of Reward. Individual Rewards can cause Social Dilemmas if a player can see that others, or a collective, could have greater benefit of the Rewards than the player could have. One such example is games in which there exists Teams but team members are in Races with each other over Individual Rewards, this not only causes Social Dilemmas but also Internal Rivalry.

When combined with Delayed Effects of Collaborative Actions, Individual Rewards give rise to Delayed Reciprocity.

Relations

Can Instantiate

Rewards, Social Dilemmas

with Collaborative Actions and Delayed Effects

Delayed Reciprocity

with Races and Teams

Internal Rivalry

Can Modulate

Collaborative Actions, Competition, Conflicts, Cooperation, Mutual Goals, Single-Player Games, Social Statuses

Can Be Instantiated By

Altruistic Actions

Can Be Modulated By

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Possible Closure Effects

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Potentially Conflicting With

Shared Rewards

History

An updated version of the pattern Individual Rewards that was part of the original collection in the book Patterns in Game Design.

Acknowledgements

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