Encouraged Return Visits

Game structures making players wanting to return to certain places or activities in the game.

This pattern is a still a stub.

Using the pattern

Encouraged Return Visits assumed that there is a game to return to and that it is possible to join and leave it often, so a requirement for this design choice is that the game in consideration already supports Drop-In/Drop-Out gameplay, and typically this is done through a Persistent Game World.

Players are encouraged to return frequently to a certain part of the game space (Based upon observations in Brathwaite, 2007);

Delayed Effects

Ephemeral Events

Continuous Goals

Grinding Spawn Points

Investments

Resource Generators

Persistent Game Worlds add another option: if they have Evolving Rule Sets players need to return regularly to keep up with the changes in the game.

Relations

Can Modulate

Drop-In/Drop-Out, Persistent Game Worlds

Can Be Instantiated By

Evolving Rule Sets together with Persistent Game Worlds

History

New pattern created in this wiki.

References

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