Continuous Goals

Goals that require the player to maintain a subset of a certain game state within certain limits.

This pattern is a still a stub.

Examples

Example: Multiplayer first-person shooters such as Battlefield 1942 have modes where teams score points (or reduce ticks from the opposing team) by controlling strategic locations.

Example: the goal for the king in King of the Hill is to maintain the game state of being the king while the other players have the goal of changing that game state. The same situation appears in Tag, but reversed; the chasing player, "it", has a goal to change the game state by role reversalwhile the other players try to maintain the state.

Anti-Examples

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Relations

Time Pressure Time Limits Extended Actions Cooperation Tension Challenging Gameplay Units Algorithmic Agents Assassin's Creed series Social Dilemmas Companions Actions Have Diegetically Social Consequences Factions Player-Planned Development Loyalty Encouraged Return Visits Repeat Combos Lives Area Control Races Reconnaissance Evade Guard Scores Rewards Sustenance Rewards Hovering Closures Check Points Preventing Goals

Can Instantiate

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Can Modulate

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Can Be Instantiated By

Conceal, King of the Hill, Indirect Control, Survive

Can Be Modulated By

Goal Points

Possible Closure Effects

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Potentially Conflicting With

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History

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

Acknowledgements

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