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  • Game Masters
    ..., and whole game worlds. With the appearance of computer-based roleplaying games, programs could replace people in the role of [[Game Masters]] at the expen ...leases which have followed since then, including [[Paranoia]], the various games using the [[Storytelling System]], and [[Fallen Reich]].
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  • Persistent Game Worlds
    Through having people or servers dedicated to them, some games can have game worlds that are always available for players to enter them. T Each [[:Category:Tabletop Roleplaying Games|Tabletop Roleplaying Game]] (e.g. [[Call of Cthulhu]] and [[Hârnmaster]])
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  • Visits
    ...m have privacy and creative control, to avoid these areas become to lonely games can support restricted [[Visits]] from other players. ...uirement for being allowed to make [[Visits]] in [[Massively Single-Player Games]] such as [[FarmVille]] and [[CityVille]]; [[Tutorial Neighbors]] can be pr
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  • Massively Multiplayer Online Games
    ''Games which support hundreds or thousands of players to inhabit the same game wor ...y players share play sessions, are known as [[Massively Multiplayer Online Games]].
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  • Non-Player Help
    Some games allow people not playing the game to provide information or perform actions ...t with other people without being sure if they are performing roles in the games or are simply random people caught up in the gameplay. Although difficult t
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  • Free Gift Inventories
    In games where players need resources, one way of encouraging social interaction bet ...Massively Single-Player Online Games]], [[Asynchronous Gameplay]], and any games with [[Casual Gameplay]]. Who can give gifts to whom is often regulated thr
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  • Invites
    ...nformally by players and facilitators like game masters in many cases, the games themselves can provide [[Invites]], game actions that allow players to try ...get other players that are likely to help them with the various tasks the games challenges them with.
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  • Altruistic Actions
    ...ameplay are directed towards reaching these goals. However, in multiplayer games other players may be trying to reach their goals and this provides an oppor ...s]] but this depends on how [[Rewards]] and [[Penalties]] are constructed. Games with [[Shared Rewards]] and [[Shared Penalties|Penalties]] make helping oth
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  • Encouraged Return Visits
    ...ey are playing with or against other players. To make the players of these games return they can be designed to have [[Encouraged Return Visits]], i.e. as p ...ods. To further encourage players to return often, [[FarmVille]] and other games such as [[Ravenwood Fair]] and [[Zombie Lane]] provide specific rewards sim
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  • Construction
    Building is a common activity possible in games; this may be actual constructions or simply actions that are diegetically p ...o a level of complexity that players have constructed computers within the games.
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  • Action Caps
    ...voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.''<ref name="suits"/> Games often solve this by letting players choose from several possible actions bu ...only becomes interesting to design in [[Turn-Based Games]] or [[Tick-Based Games]] where players have to consider what actions to do when they can't do all.
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  • Thematic Consistency
    ...life and modeling them with [[Thematic Consistency]] can result in popular games or toys. Even though not all aspects are realistic, e.g. aliens and ghosts Besides the value of being exotic, it is very common for games to make use of themes including magic or science fiction elements since the
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  • Movement
    ...able positions as well as control or explore game areas. In computer-based games it can give players feelings of speed and vertigo. The early computer-based games [[Spacewar!]] and [[Asteroids]] both allow players to move spaceships by ro
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  • Tutorial Neighbors
    Many of the massively single-player online games on social network sites make use of ''neighbors'', lists of other players t [[CityVille]], [[Empires & Allies]], and [[Zombie Lane]] are all examples of games that make use of [[Tutorial Neighbors]].
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  • Global High Score Lists
    ...e machine. With the spread of the internet and personal computers however, games could be made the uploaded results to a central server and thereby creating ...igh Score Lists]] so they can be exchanged between the systems running the games. This typically was of handling this is by creating a [[Meta Servers|Meta S
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  • Naming
    In many games players can create or change the specifics of their game world. One of the ...ally similar, [[Naming]] also appears in [[:Category:Manager Games|Manager Games]] such as [[Bloodbowl]], [[Hattrick]], and the [[Football Manager series]].
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  • Neighbors
    Online games that are not directly played as multiplayer games can allow a limited form of interaction by letting players have restricted Using [[Neighbors]] is a common feature in many of the most popular games based on Facebook. [[Mafia Wars]], [[FarmVille]], [[CityVille]], and [[Empi
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  • Budgeted Action Points
    Games that wish to make players have to husband the actions they perform can use ...is used to control how often certain actions can be performed in real-time games. In this case the actions costs a certain amount of points from some value
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  • Privileged Abilities
    Many games have different sets of actions possible for different players. The actions ...[:Category:Massively Multiplayer Online Games|Massively Multiplayer Online Games]], e.g. [[World of Warcraft]].
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  • Combat
    ...n, uncertainty, and importance of the real-world equivalent. [[Combat]] in games give players clear goals and opponents and gives clear indication of what p ...ainst each other with game rounds of 5 or 1 seconds (the [[:Category:Board Games|Board Game]] [[Car Wars]] uses segments of 0.1 or 0.2 seconds depending on
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