Emotional Attachment

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The ability of agents to have noticeable emotional relations inside the game world to the diegetic phenomena in that world.

This pattern is a still a stub.

Note: The pattern relate to players being emotionally attached to the game is named Emotional Engrossment.

Examples

Using the pattern

Characters

Note that the nature of this patterns different greatly if the Agents considered are humans or AI Players.

Diegetic Aspects

Interface Aspects

Narrative Aspects

Consequences

Relations

Time Pressure Exaggerated Perception of Influence Agents Avatars Characters

Can Instantiate

Thematic Consistency

Can Modulate

AI Players, Algorithmic Agents

Can Be Instantiated By

Actions Have Diegetically Social Consequences

Can Be Modulated By

Possible Closure Effects

Potentially Conflicting With

History

A rewrite of a pattern that was part of the original collection in the paper Gameplay Design Patterns for Believable Non-Player Characters[1].

References

  1. Lankoski, P. & Björk, S. (2007) Gameplay Design Patterns for Believable Non-Player Characters. Proceedings of DiGRA 2007.

Acknowledgments