Capture

The elimination or change of ownership of an game element.

This pattern is a still a stub.

Note: While Board Games typically use the term Capture, Real-Time Games instead uses Eliminate. For this pattern collection, Eliminate is seen as a more specific form of Capture due to being a newer form of the same phenomena.

Using the pattern

custodial capture (e.g. Hnefatafl)

displacement capture (e.g. Chess)

History

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