Anonymous Actions

Actions that cannot be unconditionally linked to a specific player.

This pattern is a still a stub.

Examples

Apples to Apples

ESP Game

Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game

Using the pattern

Uncertainty of Information

Player-Decided Distribution of Rewards & Penalties

Anonymous Actions can be used to allow Betrayals to go unnoticed or possibly repeated, and can also allow Traitors to not only have to work through Stealth.

Enforced Player Anonymity

Possibility of Anonymity

In games with Unmediated Social Interaction, players can reveal themselves as the source of Anonymous Actions unless the take care with what they say and how the show their emotions to events taking place. This may make the pattern difficult to combine with Unmediated Social Interaction but if Penalties are linked to revealing oneself (as for examples is the case for Traitors in games such as Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game or Shadows over Camelot) this makes Roleplaying a prerequisite for Game Mastery.

Consequences

Since it is more difficult for players to associate actions with players and thereby their strategies in the game, Anonymous Actions makes games have less Predictable Consequences.

Relations

Can Instantiate

with Unmediated Social Interaction and Penalties

Roleplaying

Can Modulate

Betrayal, Traitors

Can Be Instantiated By

Uncertainty of Information

Potentially Conflicting With

Predictable Consequences, Unmediated Social Interaction

History

New pattern created in this wiki.

References

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Acknowledgements

Jonas Linderoth