Facilitating Rewards
Rewards that ease gameplay actions or the completion of a game instance.
This pattern is a still a stub.
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Examples
Using the pattern
Facilitating Rewards are Rewards that enable players to perform new actions or existing actions better. The main difference between Facilitating Rewards and Access Rewards is that the former gives new Abilities or action to players while the latter provides the possibility for players to choose to get such Abilities or actions.
Typical ways of creating Facilitating Rewards include giving players New or Improved Abilities, providing new Powers, or increasing Skills. Another way of providing Facilitating Rewards and which focuses on progressing spatially in games is to move players to new Levels. In these cases, the use of One-Way Travel can ensure that it is actual (forced) progression towards the end of a game.
Consequences
Facilitating Rewards provide Empowerment and/or possibly Exaggerated Perception of Influence to players. While being able to perform better in games can provide Freedom of Choice and Player Agency regarding what they can do in those games, it also works against it when players have not been allowed to choose what to become better at.
Relations
Can Instantiate
Empowerment, Exaggerated Perception of Influence, Freedom of Choice, Player Agency, Rewards
Can Modulate
Can Be Instantiated By
Fudged Results, New Abilities, Improved Abilities, Powers, Skills
Can Be Modulated By
Possible Closure Effects
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Potentially Conflicting With
Freedom of Choice Player Agency
History
New pattern created in this wiki. However, it is based upon the concept of "Facilitating Rewards" discussed by Hallford and Hallford[1].
References
- ↑ Hallford & Hallford, 2001, Swords and Circuitry: A designer’s guide to computer role playing games. Roseville, CA: Prime Publishing, p. 158.
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