Quests
Goals within games with rewards associated to their completion.
While players need to complete many goals in a game, not all are clearly described with how they should be completed nor what rewards they will give. Quests on the other hand are goals where both finishing requirements and rewards are wellknown in advance.
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Examples
The gameplay in roleplaying games such as the Fallout series and The Elder Scrolls series is structured around solving Quests, some which are needed to finish the game and some which are optional.
Games such as Ravenwood Fair and Zombie Lane on social media sites direct players efforts in games by providing several Quests players can work on in parallel.
Using the pattern
Designing Quests consists of selecting goals, Rewards, and how players are made aware of them.
Two main varieties of Quests exist, Main Quest that needs to be completed to finish a game and optional Sidequests.
By making Quests into Committed Goals, Penalties can be linked to failing them and thereby making them into Risk/Rewards considerations.
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Given that Quests consist of
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with Committed Goals
Can Modulate
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