Guilting
Making players perform actions due to a sense of bad conscience.
Players do action in games due to some form of motivation. When this motivation is based on feeling bad, either from having done something or not having done something, it is called Guilting.
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Examples
Players on games which promote guilds, e.g. World of Warcraft, make players feel committed to turn up to raids and training for these.
Games such as FarmVille and Ravenwood Fair on social media platform often let players help other players. This create Guilting in those helped that they should return the favors.
Using the pattern
Guilting consists of two parts. The first part is that players have other players they feel a connection with. This can be formalized Social Organizations such as Teams or Guilds, but any group that they feel Loyalty to can suffice. The second part of Guilting is to make players feel that they should perform some form of action to other players. This is quite often set up by Delayed Reciprocity, for example through Altruistic Actions such as Free Gift Inventories, but any type of Social Dilemmas can work as well. Another option to create Guilting is to put one or more players in a state of Helplessness and then let them ask for help through Communication Channels or Unmediated Social Interaction.
Guilting can also occur in games with Turn Taking, where players try to make players suffering from Analysis Paralysis to quickly decide what to do next.
Consequences
Since feeling guilt is rarely a pleasurable experience, being on the receiving end of Guilting, or even seeing that this may occur, can lead to Tension.
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Can Be Instantiated By
Altruistic Actions, Delayed Reciprocity, Free Gift Inventories, Guilds, Loyalty, Social Dilemmas, Social Organizations, Teams
Analysis Paralysis together with Turn Taking
Helplessness together with Communication Channels or Unmediated Social Interaction
Can Be Modulated By
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Possible Closure Effects
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Potentially Conflicting With
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History
New pattern created in this wiki.
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