Spawning

Locations in game worlds where avatars, units, or enemies appear.

This pattern is a still a stub.

Using the pattern

The location where Avatars respawns can be the point of death, which provides continuation but may have Player Balance problems since the cause of death may still be present. Avatars may also spawn in random locations in the Game Worlds or by randomly choosing one point from a small set of Spawn Points. Even if Avatars are not respawned where they died, this location can still be interesting to return to if the Equipment lost when dying can be found there.

History

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