Incompatible Goals

Two or more goals that cannot be fulfilled simultaneously due to having end conditions that are mutually exclusive.

This pattern is a still a stub.

Examples

Left 4 Dead series

In the board game Time Agent, six different species try to manipulate the past so that events promoting their species occur and events bad for them disappear out of history. Most of these events have at least one species wanting them to exist and at least one species that wants to erase them.

Example: Tag, where the goal of the chaser to catch the other players, the chaser's goal of tagging cannot be fulfilled at the same time as other players' goals of not being caught.

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Relations

Roleplaying Open Destiny Social Dilemmas Internal Conflicts Internal Rivalry Player-Planned Development Collaborative Actions Sidequests Variable Accuracy Excluding Goals Last Man Standing Varied Gameplay Connection Configuration Preventing Goals

Instantiates: Conflicts, Competition

Modulates: Attention Swapping, Selectable Sets of Goals, Narration Structures

Instantiated by: Contact

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Potentially Conflicting With

Mutual Goals

History

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

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