Negotiable Game Sessions

Support for players to have complete gameplay experiences while having influence over the time need and without negatively affecting other players gameplay experience.

Players of any game may have preferences on how long the game should take to complete, and this may change between each time the game is played. Games that allow players to influence the time taken to play through them can be said to have Negotiable Game Sessions.

Examples

Sandbox Games such as Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft, and Sims series does not force players to strive towards winning conditions and can for this reason continue to be played for as long as players find them interesting. Even those that have more explicit winning conditions, e.g. the Elder Scrolls series and the Grand Theft Auto series, have Negotiable Game Sessions when they let players continue playing after the game is won.

There is no natural ending point for Tabletop Roleplaying Games such as Dungeons & Dragons or Call of Cthulhu as long as the game master and enough players are willing to continue. This gives these games a weak form of Negotiable Game Sessions.

Using the pattern

Several factors affect if a game supports Negotiable Game Sessions.

Multiplayer Games complicates the issue of having Negotiable Game Sessions since the

Single-Player Games

Sidequests

Sandbox Gameplay Negotiable Play Sessions Time Limits Drop-In/Drop-Out Self-Facilitated Games

Relations

Speed Runs Sandbox Gameplay Negotiable Play Sessions Time Limits Drop-In/Drop-Out Self-Facilitated Games Single-Player Games

Potentially Conflicting With

Multiplayer Games

History

New pattern created in this wiki.

References

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