PvE
Gameplay where the game system provides the challenge rather than other players.
Games needs challenges. While many games create challenges by making players compete against each other in various forms, other do so by having the game itself create opposition to the players' intentions. This second form was given the name PvE (for "Player versus Environment") by players in massively multiplayer online games to distinguish it from the first one (PvP, or "Player versus Player"). Note that the two types of challenges are not mutually incompatible and players may simultaneously have both types of challenges.
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Examples
PvE gameplay is also common in many Computer Games. To mention just a few, it can be found in the Asteroids, Centipede, and Plants vs. Zombies, and the Doom, Fallout, Pik-Min and Super Mario series.
The web site GiantBomb as a page[1] dedicated to the concept of PvE.
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Diegetic Aspects
Interface Aspects
Narrative Aspects
Consequences
Relations
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Can Modulate
Multiplayer Games, Single-Player Games
Can Be Instantiated By
Can Be Modulated By
Possible Closure Effects
Potentially Conflicting With
History
New pattern created in this wiki.
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