Tied Results

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Examples

Anti-Examples

optional

Using the pattern

Can Modulate

Tournaments

Can Be Instantiated By

Complete Resource Depletion, High Score Lists, Multiplayer Games, Races, Scores, Time Limits

Time Limited Game Instances together with Winning by Ending Gameplay

Can Be Modulated By

Tiebreakers

Potentially Conflicting With

Excluding Goals, Perceivable Margins, Tiebreakers

Consequences

Tied Results allow games to provide both Shared Penalties and Shared Rewards without designing players to be in Teams or other formal constellations.

Uncommitted Alliances

Can Instantiate

Player-Decided Distributions,

. When the possibility of Shared Rewards for Tied Results exist and this creates Uncommitted Alliances among players a combined consequences of this is a form of Player-Decided Distributions.

Social Dilemmas can emerged from Tied Results in that players may be in the positions to let others share Rewards with them but with a reduced benefit for themselves.

Relations

Can Instantiate

Shared Penalties, Shared Rewards, Social Dilemmas, Uncommitted Alliances

with Shared Rewards and Uncommitted Alliances

Player-Decided Distributions

Can Modulate

Tournaments

Can Be Instantiated By

Complete Resource Depletion, High Score Lists, Multiplayer Games, Races, Scores, Time Limits

Time Limited Game Instances together with Winning by Ending Gameplay

Can Be Modulated By

Tiebreakers

Possible Closure Effects

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Potentially Conflicting With

Excluding Goals, Perceivable Margins, Tiebreakers

History

An updated version of the pattern Tied Results that was part of the original collection in the book Patterns in Game Design.

Acknowledgements

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