Pattern Suggestion List
For patterns that have partly or fully been inserted into the wiki, see the category of patterns. See also Renamed Patterns.
Note: not all these patterns should necessary be made...
Note: to make a new pattern, use the Gameplay Design Pattern Template
Note: the suggested patterns are not made as links to avoid hiding patterns that are actually referenced to
Contents
- 1 Patterns
- 1.1 From the cd-rom
- 1.2 Left-overs from the book
- 1.3 New from various sources
- 1.3.1 IPerG: D5.8
- 1.3.2 NPC design with Petri
- 1.3.3 Social NPC design with Petri
- 1.3.4 Dialogue design with Jenny
- 1.3.5 MMOG design by Jenny's master students (Torbjörn Söderqvist & Christian Larsson)
- 1.3.6 Pervasive games with Johan Peitz
- 1.3.7 Unknown
- 1.3.8 New proposals from working with the wiki
Patterns
From the cd-rom
Ability Losses
Achilles' Heels
Alliances
Alternative Reality
Anticipation
Area Control
Asymmetric Abilities
Asymmetric Goals
Asymmetric Information
Asymmetric Resource Distribution
Asynchronous Games
Attention Swapping
Balancing Effects
Betting
Bidding
Bluffing
Book-Keeping Tokens
Boss Monsters
Budgeted Action Points
Switches (<-Buttons)
Cameras
Camping
Card Hands
Cards
Character Development
Characters
Chargers
Closed Economies
Closure Points
Clues
Cognitive Engrossment (<- Cognitive Immersion )
Collecting
Collections (<- Collection )
Combat
Committed Goals
Competitions ( <- Competition )
Conceal
Configuration
Conflicts ( <- Conflict )
Connection
Constructive Play
Consumers
Contact
Container
Continuous Goals
Controllers
Converters
Cooperation
Creative Control
Damage
Traps (<- Deadly Traps)
Decreased Abilities
Dedicated Game Facilitators
Deliver (<- Delivery)
Dexterity-Based Actions
Dice
Diminishing Returns
Direct Information
Discard Piles
Disruption of Focused Attention
Downtime
Dynamic Alliances
Dynamic Goal Characteristics
Easter Eggs
Eliminate
Empowerment - should be related to Illusion of Influence
Enclosure
Ephemeral Goals
Evade
Excluding Goals
Experimenting
Exploration
Extended Actions
Extra-Game Actions
Extra-Game Information
Focus Loci
Fog of War
Freedom of Choice
Gain Competence
Gain Information
Gain Ownership
Game Mastery
Game Pauses
Game State Overviews ( <- Game State Overview )
Game World Navigation
Ghosts
Goal Indicators
Check Points <- Goal Points
God Views
God's Finger
Guard
Handles
Helpers
Herd
Goal Hierarchies ( <- Hierarchy of Goals )
Hovering Closures
Identification
Illusionary Rewards
Engrossment ( <- Immersion)
Imperfect Information
Improved Abilities
Inaccessible Areas
Incompatible Goals
Indirect Control
Indirect Information
Individual Penalties
Individual Rewards
Interferable Goals
Investments
Invisible Walls
King of the Hill
Last Man Standing
Leaps of Faith
Limited Foresight
Limited Planning Ability
Limited Resources
Limited Set of Actions
Lives
Maneuvering
Memorizing
Meta Games
Moveable Tiles
Movement
Movement Limitations
Mutual Goals
Near Miss Indicators
Negotiation
New Abilities
Non-Renewable Resources
Obstacles
Optional Goals
Orthogonal Unit Differentiation
Outcome Indicators
Overcome
Ownership
Rock-paper-scissors (<- Paper-Rock-Scissors)
Penalties
Perceivable Margins
Perfect Information
(Pick-Ups - take parts of this and put in Game Items and other places)
Player Balance
Player Defined Goals
Player Elimination
Player Killing
Player-Decided Distribution of Rewards & Penalties
Polyathlons
Predefined Goals
Predictable Consequences
Preventing Goals
Privileged Abilities
Privileged Movement
Producer-Consumer
Producers
Progress Indicators ("Progress" announced for quests in Ravenwood Fair)
Public Information
Puzzle Solving
Quick Games
Races <- Race
Reconfigurable Game Worlds ( <- Reconfigurable Game World )
Reconnaissance
Red Herrings
Red Queen Dilemmas
Renewable Resources
Replayability
Rescue
Resource Generators
Resource Sources ( <- Resource Locations )
Resource Management
Resources
Reversibility ( <- Reversability)
Rewards
Rhythm-Based Actions
Complex Gameplay(<- Right Level of Complexity - same reasoning as below)
Risk/Reward
Role Reversal
Save Points
Save-Load Cycles
Score
Secret Alliances
Secret Resources
Selectable Set of Goals (<- Selectable Sets of Goals)
Sensory-Motoric Engrossment ( <- Sensory-Motoric Immersion )
Shared Penalties
Shared Resources
Shared Rewards
Shrinking Game World
Skills
Social Dilemmas
Social Interaction
Social Organizations
Spatial Engrossment ( <- Spatial Immersion )
Spawn Points
Spawning
Spectators
Stealth
Stimulated Planning
Storytelling
Strategic Knowledge
Strategic Locations
Supporting Goals
Surprises
Survive
Symmetric Goals
Symmetric Information
Symmetric Resource Distribution
Symmetry
Synchronous Games
Team Balance
Team Development
Team Elimination
Teams ( <- Team Play )
The Show Must Go On
Third-Person Views
Tick-Based Games
Tiebreakers
Tied Results
Tile-Laying
Tiles
Timing
Tools
Tournaments
Traces
Tradeoffs
Trading
Trans-Game Information
Transfer of Control
Traverse
Ultra-Powerful Events
Uncertainty of Information
Uncommitted Alliances
Unknown Goals
Varied Gameplay
Left-overs from the book
(find the excel file for this)
New from various sources
IPerG: D5.8
Memorabilia
Coupled Games
Social Rewards
Configurable Gameplay Area
Interruptibility <- Interruptability (because it's spelled so...)
Mutual Experiences <- Common Experiences
1.14 Hybrid Spaces
1.15 Social Skills
1.16 Real Life Activities Affect Game State
Asynchronous Collaborative Actions
Functional Roles ( <- Selectable Functional Roles )
1.21 Negotiable Game Sessions
Negotiable Game Instance Duration
1.23 Negotiable Game Time
Social Roles ( <- Selectable Social Roles )
NPC design with Petri
Visual Body Damage
Dissectible Bodies
Social NPC design with Petri
Binding Promises
Brokering
Competing for Attention
Context Dependent Reactions ( <- Context Dependent Reaction)
Eavesdropping
Either You are with Me or against Me
False Accusations
Favors (<- Favor )
Gain Allies
Guide and Protect
Hierarchical Factions <- Hierarchical Fraction
Linked Destinies
Maintaining Lies
Match-Making
Memory of Important Events
My Enemy’s Enemy is my Friend
Others fortune affects own Mood
Outcast
Outspoken Support
Requesting Support
Social Gatekeeper
Diegetic Social Maintenance <- Social Maintenance
Diegetic Social Norms <- Social Norm
Traitors <- Traitor
Dialogue design with Jenny
Incremental Dialogue Processing
Chunk-based Dialogue Processing
Single-Initiative Dialogues
Mixed Initiative Dialogues
Basic Input Feedback
Barge-In
Canned Text Responses
Diegetically Consistent Dialogues (<- Diegetically Consistent Dialogue)
Context Dependent Dialogues ( <- Context Dependent Dialogue )
Gameplay Integrated Conversation ( <- Gameplay Integrated Conversation)
Illocutionary Interface ( <- Illocutionary Interface )
Location-Specific Dialogues ( <- Location-Specific Dialogues)
Character-Specific Dialogues ( <- Character-Specific Dialogue )
Colloquial Mastery
Delicate Phrasing
MMOG design by Jenny's master students (Torbjörn Söderqvist & Christian Larsson)
Inventories ( <- Inventory Management)
Loot Rights
Carryables
Equipable Items ( <- Equipables )
Useables
Noticeables
Creatables
Stackables
Disposables
Enterables/Mountables
Suggested
Stealables
Dropables/Placables
Social Status Symbols
Pervasive games with Johan Peitz
Actor Detachment
Artifact-Artifact Proximity
Artifact-Location Proximity
Configurable Gameplay Area
Critical Gameplay Design
Crossmedia Gameplay
Decontextability
Extra-Game Input
Gameplay Changes Perception of Real World Phenomena
Minimalized Social Weight
Physical Navigation
Player Physical Prowess
Player-Artifact Proximity
Player-Avatar Proximity
Player-Location Proximity
Player-Player Proximity
Real Life Activities Affect Game State
Real World Knowledge Advantages
Seamful Gameplay
Self-Reported Positioning
Social Adaptability
The Rabbit Hole Invitation
Unknown
Persistant State World
Fixed Real-World Exchange Rate
Death game mönstret
Point of No Return
New proposals from working with the wiki
Attention Demanding [grew out of rewriting real-time games] --Staffan Björk 16:08, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Togetherness [grew out of rewriting real-time games, and makes Karl happy maybe] --Staffan Björk 16:18, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Option Interfaces [grew out of real-time games, pop-up choices outside the main game interface, does this exists already partly?] --Staffan Björk 17:58, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
Friend Lists [from many online games] --Staffan Björk 11:25, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Steadily Decreasing Resources [From writing Unwinnable Games] --Staffan Björk 11:43, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Turnovers [From playing Bloodbowl] --Staffan Björk 20:43, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Game Time Manipulation [From writing on irreversible events, example are Braid, save-load cycles, prince of persia] --Staffan Björk 15:27, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Asymmetric Roles (already covered by asymmetrical abilities? e.g. Allegiance, where one player steers the ship/bombs and one sits in a turret to keep interceptors at bay--Karl Bergström 14:33, 20 November 2009 (UTC))
Value of Effort (that players have real or perceived valuable outcomes of the effort they put into the gameplay) --Staffan Björk 13:41, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
Positive Feedback Loops (from updating the names of the Arithmetic and Geometric patterns, and Rules of Play) --Staffan Björk 12:10, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Negative Feedback Loops (from updating the names of the Arithmetic and Geometric patterns, and Rules of Play) --Staffan Björk 12:10, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Game Lobbies (for finding games and friends, e.g. in L4D) --Staffan Björk 10:28, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Location-Fixed Abilities (machine guns in L4D) --Staffan Björk 16:34, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Inventories --Staffan Björk 16:40, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Limited Inventory (L4D) --Staffan Björk 16:40, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Variable Accuracy (L4D, player skill, character skill, equipment) --Staffan Björk 16:45, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Group Belonging (L4D, aesthetics work) --Staffan Björk 11:06, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Split-Screen View (from writing about local multiplayer console games) --Staffan Björk 13:40, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Campaigns (duh) --Staffan Björk 14:30, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Community Functionality --Staffan Björk 15:07, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Voting --Staffan Björk 12:10, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Player Decided Rule Setup --Staffan Björk 12:10, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Game-Defined Vocabulary (quick responses in Battlefield and L4D series) --Staffan Björk 12:29, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
PvE (Player versus Environment; WoW) --Staffan Björk 11:13, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
PvP (Player versus Player; WoW) --Staffan Björk 11:13, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Kiting (drawing monsters out and attacking them) --Staffan Björk 11:15, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Mutual Enemies (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Transferable Tools (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Excluding Groups (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Inherent Mistrust (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Coordination (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper - include WoW marker example by Bennerstedt) --Staffan Björk 12:28, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
Sabotage (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Simultaneous Challenges (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Virtual Co-Presence (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Mutual Experiences (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
FUBAR Enjoyment (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Mutual FUBAR Enjoyment (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Team Accomplishments (from Aesthetical Gameplay Patterns paper) --Staffan Björk 15:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Excise (from mentions by Karl Bergström) --Staffan Björk 16:46, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Destructible Objects (typically barrels in FPSes) --Staffan Björk 17:06, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Limited Gameplay Time (that either game sessions or play sessions are designed to be limited in time or moves) --Staffan Björk 10:11, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Renewable Resource --Staffan Björk 11:50, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Always Vulnerable (games where a player's character, country, etc. is possible to attack even when the player is not playing, e.g. Eve Online) --Staffan Björk 12:15, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
Initial Personalization (that one can customized avatars before ones gameplay begins) --Staffan Björk 07:46, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
Automated Responses (agents reacting automatic to detected objects and events) --Staffan Björk 06:16, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Attributes (duh...) --Staffan Björk 06:38, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Feats (duh...) --Staffan Björk 06:38, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Advantages (duh...) --Staffan Björk 06:38, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Disadvantages (duh...) --Staffan Björk 06:38, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Customizable Development (choices when having character development) --Staffan Björk 06:48, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
Player Time Investments (basically, that players have spent time in the game to either master skills or create/shape something in the game) --Staffan Björk 06:53, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
Avatar Personalization (cosmetic personalization of avatars) --Staffan Björk 07:06, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
Quick Time Events (see also the wikipedia entry) --Staffan Björk 08:56, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Deck Building (as in Dominion and Magic) --Staffan Björk 17:18, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Development Trees (as in civ but also as in D&D and Borderlands) --Staffan Björk 11:45, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
King Maker (wasn't this in the first collection?) --Staffan Björk 14:35, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Vulnerabilities (as Achielle's heels but not as strong) --Staffan Björk 08:02, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
Emergent Gameplay (1+1=3) --Staffan Björk 07:18, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
Replays --Staffan Björk 07:49, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Gameplay Recording (e.g. Battlefield 2, Sims, the Movies) --Staffan Björk 10:48, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Bragging --Staffan Björk 10:58, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Cartel Formation (based on non-game reasons) --Staffan Björk 16:03, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
Wave (from the GOP paper) --Staffan Björk 07:22, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
Equipment Slots (from Torchlight but many RPGs) --Staffan Björk 13:56, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Character Levels (duh) --Staffan Björk 15:02, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Unobserved Game Events (from inserting patterns from Petri's PhD thesis) --Staffan Björk 07:39, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Character Memories (from inserting patterns from Petri's PhD thesis) --Staffan Björk 07:56, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Game Prophecies (information from the game what will happen in the future of the game) --Staffan Björk 07:58, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Mandatory Goals (duh) --Staffan Björk 14:09, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Self-Facilitated Rules (as Self-Facilitated Games but only for rules and can be just a part of the rules) --Staffan Björk 22:03, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
Infiltrate (pretending to be in a group) --Staffan Björk 07:18, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
Feigned Die Rolls (Rolls to that seem to be about something but isn't, see Fine p.117-118) --Staffan Björk 08:21, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
fgh effect (that the 3rd guy is the crook, whomever the 3rd guy turns out to be, from newish Gamma World rules) --Staffan Björk 08:21, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
Guilds (duh) --Staffan Björk 13:11, 31 August 2010 (CEST)
Secret Goals (duh) --[[--Staffan Björk 15:11, 10 September 2010 (CEST)User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 12:11, 3 September 2010 (CEST)
Intrigue (secret negotiations) --Staffan Björk 12:13, 3 September 2010 (CEST)
Effect Descriptions (descriptions of the game effect of an action) --Staffan Björk 10:22, 7 September 2010 (CEST)
Tragedy of the Commons (breakout from Social Dilemmas?) --Staffan Björk 16:47, 7 September 2010 (CEST)
Enforced Goals (goals you need to succeed with to complete or win a game) --Staffan Björk 10:35, 9 September 2010 (CEST)
Indirectly Aggressive Actions (A secondary effect to an action that improves your chances in which opponents ability to improve their absolute position is reduced) --Staffan Björk 10:57, 9 September 2010 (CEST)
Directly Aggressive Actions (Actions that reduced opponents absolute positions in the game) --Staffan Björk 10:57, 9 September 2010 (CEST)
Parties (group of characters,avatars working as a group) --Staffan Björk 16:45, 9 September 2010 (CEST)
Game Element Removal (duh) --Staffan Björk 16:54, 9 September 2010 (CEST)
Game-Induced Player Social Status (re-introduced from Social Status ) --Staffan Björk 10:51, 10 September 2010 (CEST)
Upgrading (the event of giving new or improved abilities) --Staffan Björk 14:39, 10 September 2010 (CEST)
Tokens (duh) --Staffan Björk 15:11, 10 September 2010 (CEST)
Performance (theatrical or show-off expression) --Staffan Björk 12:09, 14 September 2010 (CEST)
Chain Reactions --Staffan Björk 12:48, 17 September 2010 (CEST)
Secondary Interface Screens (e.g. Inventory or Character Sheets - note conflicts in Game Worlds, breaks Diegetic Consistency if creating Game Pauses) --Staffan Björk 11:54, 21 September 2010 (CEST)
Character Sheets --Staffan Björk 11:54, 21 September 2010 (CEST)
HUD Interfaces --Staffan Björk 12:17, 21 September 2010 (CEST)
Game Over (duh) --Staffan Björk 10:57, 29 September 2010 (CEST)
Indirect Conflicts (from writing Algorithmic Agents) --Staffan Björk 11:04, 18 November 2010 (CET)
Glory Rewards (Social Rewards?, Hallford & Hallford, 2001, Swords and Circuitry: A designer’s guide to computer role playing games. Roseville, CA: Prime Publishing, p. 158) --Staffan Björk 14:03, 26 November 2010 (CET)
Sustenance Rewards (Hallford & Hallford, 2001 p. 158) --Staffan Björk 14:03, 26 November 2010 (CET)
Access Rewards (Hallford & Hallford, 2001 p. 158) --Staffan Björk 14:03, 26 November 2010 (CET)
Facilitating Rewards (Hallford & Hallford, 2001 p. 158) --Staffan Björk 14:03, 26 November 2010 (CET)
Energy Penalties (Energy punishment, Juul, 2009, p.238) --Staffan Björk 17:03, 26 November 2010 (CET)
Life Penalties (Life punishment, Juul, 2009, p.238) --Staffan Björk 17:03, 26 November 2010 (CET)
Game Termination Penalties (Game termination punishment, Juul, 2009, p.238) --Staffan Björk 17:03, 26 November 2010 (CET)
Setback Penalties (Setback punishment, Juul, 2009, p.238) --Staffan Björk 17:03, 26 November 2010 (CET)
Public Interfaces (interfaces that are accessible to several people at the same time, e.g. Flight Control on the iPad) --Staffan Björk 19:19, 27 November 2010 (CET)
Appointments (related to Return Visits; taken from the SVNGR mechanic Appointment Dynamic, http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/)
Incremental Information Delivery (from the SVNGR mechanic Cascading Information Theory, http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/)
Communal Problem Solving (from the SVNGR mechanic Communal Discovery, http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/)
Lottery (from the SVNGR mechanic Lottery, http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/)
Shell Game (from the SVNGR mechanic Shell Game, http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/)
Real World Game Space (that the game space/game world is defined as a subsection of the real world) --Staffan Björk 09:24, 8 December 2010 (CET)
Pervasive Gameplay (duh; maybe def from McGonigal's PhD) --Staffan Björk 09:29, 8 December 2010 (CET)
Ubiquitous Gameplay (duh; maybe def from McGonigal's PhD) --Staffan Björk 09:29, 8 December 2010 (CET)
Self-Service Kiosks (providing different type of services on specific spots) --Staffan Björk 14:49, 8 December 2010 (CET)
Equipment (things that can be equipped, close but not same as tools) --Staffan Björk 10:03, 9 December 2010 (CET)
Abilities (diegetic actions that players can choose to perform) --Staffan Björk 10:07, 9 December 2010 (CET)
Sandbox Gameplay (duh) --Staffan Björk 10:29, 9 December 2010 (CET)
Persistent Game World Changes (changes that don't just go away and don't involve manipulating game items) --Staffan Björk 14:18, 9 December 2010 (CET)
Multiple Endings (duh) --Staffan Björk 17:16, 13 December 2010 (CET)
Cosmetic Game Items (duh) --Staffan Björk 18:02, 31 December 2010 (CET)
Mimetic Interfaces (from Juuls book) --Staffan Björk 13:44, 3 January 2011 (CET)
Referees (duh) --Staffan Björk 13:43, 4 January 2011 (CET)
Player Characters (duh) --Staffan Björk 14:09, 4 January 2011 (CET)
Limited Communication Abilities (ESP Game and Space Alert) --Staffan Björk 17:25, 4 January 2011 (CET)
Hidden Rules (rules that players don't have explicit descriptions of) --Staffan Björk 17:52, 4 January 2011 (CET)
Varying Rule Set (rules that players don't have explicit descriptions of) --Staffan Björk 17:52, 4 January 2011 (CET)
Proxy Players (agents playing for somebody else) --Staffan Björk 11:37, 5 January 2011 (CET)
Zone of Control (duh) --Staffan Björk 17:38, 9 January 2011 (CET)
Narrative Engrossment (duh) --Staffan Björk 20:53, 12 January 2011 (CET)
Modifiable Game Interfaces (WoW & MUD clients) --Staffan Björk 22:03, 12 January 2011 (CET)
Health (duh) --Staffan Björk 22:52, 12 January 2011 (CET)
Expansions (duh) --Staffan Björk 20:40, 15 January 2011 (CET)
Faucet/Drain (economic model in contrast to a closed system, see http://www.mine-control.com/zack/uoecon/slides.html) --Staffan Björk 16:50, 17 January 2011 (CET)
Alternate Reality Gameplay (duh) --Staffan Björk 17:16, 27 January 2011 (CET)
Ever Increasing Difficulty (duh) --Staffan Björk 16:46, 3 February 2011 (CET)
Sidegrades (TF2 heavy weapon; Brice Clocher & Jonas Jacobsson) (For each skill category, players can select one from a set of alternative, yet similar skills.) --Staffan Björk 13:25, 10 February 2011 (CET)
Discontinuous Progression (since not everything is Arithmetic or Geometric) --Staffan Björk 20:40, 15 February 2011 (CET)
Event Thresholds (from writing Arithmetic Progression, quantitative point at which an event is triggered) --Staffan Björk 21:54, 17 February 2011 (CET)
Encouraged Constant Player Activity (from writing resource caps) --Staffan Björk 19:11, 18 February 2011 (CET)
Ragequitting (duh) --Staffan Björk 08:18, 20 February 2011 (CET)
Pubstomping (duh) --Staffan Björk 08:18, 20 February 2011 (CET)
Global High Score Lists --Staffan Björk 21:21, 24 February 2011 (CET)
First Player Token (duh) --Staffan Björk 08:59, 27 February 2011 (CET)
Current Player Token (duh) --Staffan Björk 08:59, 27 February 2011 (CET)
Victory Points (as tokens) --Staffan Björk 08:59, 27 February 2011 (CET)
Chips (duh) --Staffan Björk 22:04, 1 March 2011 (CET)
Drafting (ticket to ride, thunderstone, dominion) --Staffan Björk 21:10, 4 March 2011 (CET)
Trick Taking (duh) --Staffan Björk 09:57, 5 March 2011 (CET)
Invulnerability (duh) --Staffan Björk 22:01, 8 March 2011 (CET)
Physical Enactment (LARPs but also SingStar and Rockband) --Staffan Björk 23:30, 9 March 2011 (CET)
Abstract Player Constructs ((countries, civilizations, plantations, etc. that players control) --Staffan Björk 18:18, 12 March 2011 (CET)
Enactment (the activity of representing some activity) --Staffan Björk 18:20, 12 March 2011 (CET)
Miniatures (duh) --Staffan Björk 18:27, 12 March 2011 (CET)
Out of Character Conversations --Staffan Björk 18:43, 12 March 2011 (CET)
In Character Conversations --Staffan Björk 18:43, 12 March 2011 (CET)
Turtling (from wikipedia and Mikael Rytterhag's Camping paper) --Staffan Björk 12:29, 13 March 2011 (CET)
Choke Points (level design) --Staffan Björk 10:47, 14 March 2011 (CET)
Friendly Fire (duh) --Staffan Björk 10:24, 17 March 2011 (CET)
Sidequests --Staffan Björk 21:53, 19 March 2011 (CET)
Main Quest --Staffan Björk 22:02, 19 March 2011 (CET)
Player-Constructed Worlds --Staffan Björk 00:51, 20 March 2011 (CET)
Scripted Sequences (Half-Life's answer to cutscenes) --Staffan Björk 20:24, 20 March 2011 (CET)
Back-to-Back Game Sessions (playing 2-player games twice and switiching sides) --Staffan Björk 15:30, 26 March 2011 (CET)
Rotating Starting Player (rotating starting player between game instances or phases to balance gameplay) --Staffan Björk 15:30, 26 March 2011 (CET)
Scenarios (different setups in wargame and RPGs, and Space Alert) --Staffan Björk 16:10, 26 March 2011 (CET)
Vision Modes (from Jonas' ecological approach paper) --Staffan Björk 22:23, 28 March 2011 (CEST)
Point of Interest Indication (From Jonas' ecological approach paper, and Automatic Response) --Staffan Björk 22:23, 28 March 2011 (CEST)
Illusion of Open Space --Staffan Björk 16:56, 30 March 2011 (CEST)
Inhabitants (duh) --Staffan Björk 09:36, 2 April 2011 (CEST)
Jumping (duh) --Staffan Björk 00:00, 3 April 2011 (CEST)
One-Way Travel (duh) --Staffan Björk 13:52, 3 April 2011 (CEST)
Cheat Codes (duh) --Staffan Björk 11:25, 4 April 2011 (CEST)
Armor (duh) --Staffan Björk 14:19, 6 April 2011 (CEST)
Deterioration (duh) --Staffan Björk 14:54, 6 April 2011 (CEST)
Ammunition (duh) --Staffan Björk 15:30, 6 April 2011 (CEST)
Powers (spells, etc.) --Staffan Björk 21:11, 6 April 2011 (CEST)
Buff --Staffan Björk 19:32, 7 April 2011 (CEST)
Debuff --Staffan Björk 19:32, 7 April 2011 (CEST)
Stealing (duh) --Staffan Björk 19:41, 8 April 2011 (CEST)
Farming (duh) --Staffan Björk 20:42, 8 April 2011 (CEST)
Upgrades (game items that upgrade other game items) --Staffan Björk 12:01, 9 April 2011 (CEST)
Twinking (for WoW) --Staffan Björk 20:01, 9 April 2011 (CEST)
Enforced Ownership (Soulbound concept from WoW) --Staffan Björk 20:05, 9 April 2011 (CEST)
Faucet/Sink (opposite to Closed Economy) --Staffan Björk 10:14, 10 April 2011 (CEST)