Team Balance

The one-sentence "definition" that should be in italics.

This pattern is a still a stub.

Examples

Anti-Examples

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Using the pattern

Team Balance isn't typically created by Player Balance since the advantages which individual members provide to a Team can be offset by disadvantages that member of other members have in the same Team, advantages that members in other Teams provide, or external modifications applied to other Teams to balance out said advantages.

Consequences

Left 4 Dead series

Relations

Instantiates: Determinable Chance to Succeed

Modulates: Collaborative Actions

Modulated by: Player Killing, Spawning, Orthogonal Differentiation

Can Instantiate

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Can Modulate

Teams, TvT

Can Be Instantiated By

Evolving Rule Sets, Self-Facilitated Games, Symmetry, Team Development

Multiplayer Games with TvT and either Balancing Effects, Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment, or Handicap Systems

Can Be Modulated By

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Possible Closure Effects

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Potentially Conflicting With

AI Players, Drop-In/Drop-Out, Empowerment, Invulnerabilities, Late Arriving Players, Multiplayer Games, New Abilities, Player Killing, Player-Decided Results, Privileged Abilities, Team Development

History

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

Acknowledgements

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