Encouraged Return Visits

Game structures making players wanting to return to certain places or activities in the game.

This pattern is a still a stub.

Using the pattern

Encouraged Return Visits assumed that there is

Drop-In/Drop-Out gameplay

Persistent Game Worlds

Players are encouraged to return frequently to a certain part of the game space (Based upon observations in Brathwaite, 2007);

Delayed Effects

Ephemeral Events

Continuous Goals

Grinding Spawn Points

Investments

Resource Generators

Persistent Game Worlds add another option: if they have Evolving Rule Sets players need to return regularly to keep up with the changes in the game.

Relations

Can Be Instantiated By

Evolving Rule Sets together with Persistent Game Worlds

History

New pattern created in this wiki.

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