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• Player-Defined Goals
  ''Goals and subgoals that players can create or customize within a game.'' ...this of course does not hinder players from adding other [[Player-Defined Goals]] that ignore these rules).
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• Pattern Suggestion List
  [[Player-Decided Results]] ==== Player Experience and Game Mastery ====
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• High Score Lists
  The first arcade game to have [[High Score Lists]] was [[Asteroids]]. The player who achieves a high enough score compared to the other players of the same ...ge mode can be seen as a [[High Score Lists|High Score List]] for a single player that allows him or her to try to complete levels using less time, portals,
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• Unwinnable Games
  ...nteresting challenges to players either by letting players could their own goals and winning conditions or by letting players compare their performance with ...ate designated as the winning one. Both [[Multiplayer Games]] and [[Single-Player Games]] can be [[Unwinnable Games]].
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• Left 4 Dead series
  ...<ref name="L4Dwiki"/> for more detailed description of the games. List of player statistics regarding Steam Achievements are available from the Steam Commun ...e]] when players having the role of special infected have the [[Preventing Goals|Preventing Goal]] of hindering those playing uninfected humans. The game [[
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• Betrayal
  ...idual gains received by the [[Betrayal]], hidden loyalties, differences in player positions in the game, revenge for previous injustices, or situations where ...r each other in reaching goals but those goals are actually [[Interferable Goals]] so that [[Betrayal]] can happen.
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• Avatars
  ...the area where they can affect the game world, or create game elements the player must keep safe. Through doing this, the players' attention can be focused o Although not strictly necessary in single-player FPS games such as the [[Doom series|Doom]] and [[Quake series]] since the p
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• Goal-Driven Personal Development
  ''The ability of agents to update their goals after the closure of existing goals.'' ...hrough choosing new goals as they reach closure points regarding their old goals, they can be said to have [[Goal-Driven Personal Development]].
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• Role Fulfillment
  ...]] and [[Once Upon a Time]] provide the same types of [[Role Fulfillment]] goals but rely on all players taking on these more seriously (especially since no ...de a [[Role Fulfillment]] goal for the players even if becoming a skillful player may not be the same as behaving as closely to the base activity.
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• Player-Created Characters
  [[Category:Player Patterns]] ...ay begins or over time develop them to be as the players want, these are [[Player-Created Characters]]. Games with these allow players to customize not only
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• Turn-Based Games
  ''Games where the gameplay is clearly divided into clearly defined parts where players can plan and select actions'' ...ns are in this way typically used to describe periods of gameplay when one player can plan without risk of interruption to select and perform one action. How
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• Levels
  ''A level is a part of the game in which all player action takes place until a certain goal has been reached or an end conditio .... In some games, the levels can also have different primary activities the player has to perform repetitively.
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• Characters
  ...op roleplaying games such as [[Dungeons & Dragons]] and [[GURPS]] let each player control their own [[Characters|Character]], and one of the main types of go ...ch]]). The tabletop roleplaying games often have multiple systems that the player groups are choose from.
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• Game State Indicators
  ...dicators|Game State Indicator]] shows which character is controlled by the player. [[World of Warcraft]] allows players to place raid target icons<ref name=" ...ey can be created through [[Outcome Indicators]] as outcome in gameplay is defined through changes in the game state.
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• Stimulated Planning
  ...game]], since this allows players to have better ideas of what actions and goals need to be in focus for their gameplay. ...orithmic Agents]]) encourages players to set up their own [[Player Defined Goals]] but may fail if players are uninspired. [[Freedom of Choice]] does not ne
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• Freedom of Choice
  ...choices" argues this, as does the definitions of game from Costikyan where player ''make decisions''<ref name="Costikyan"/> and Abt where players are ''indep ...ices of where to place one's tokens which may seem meaningful for a novice player but becomes less so for somebody that has explored the whole possibility sp
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• Multiplayer Games
  [[Category:Player Patterns]] ''Games that have more than one player.''
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• Social Dilemmas
  Creating [[Social Dilemmas]] consist creating [[Incompatible Goals]] that pair [[Individual Rewards]] or [[Individual Penalties|Penalties]] ag ...es]] but can also be designed for players by using [[Factions]] with [[Non-Player Characters]]. There are several well-known basic types of [[Social Dilemmas
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• Companions
  ...ies|Civiliation series]] can be seen as a form of [[Companions]]. Like the player, they have no direct manifestation within the game world but they do follow ...r [[Mutual Goals]] or [[Continuous Goals]] and [[Supporting Goals]] with a player. They may be able to work towards these through having the same [[Abilities
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• Actions Have Diegetically Social Consequences
  Perceived actions influence how a non-player character will act toward the acting character. Different types of actions Stealing in the third installment of the [[Fallout series]] makes player characters lose karma, which in turn changes how other characters reach to
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• Detective Structures
  ''Information available to a player is limited to the information available to one single character.'' ...and [[Deus Ex series]]. This come pretty natural for the genre since it is defined by how one perceives the game world from the view of one character.
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• Factions
  ''Specific diegetic social networks where membership is defined by what actions are favored, disfavored, and required.'' ...ous tools and the possibility of advancement through completing additional goals.
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• Alignment
  ...effects in the game state. When the pieces have to form a line (typically defined by three game elements) for an effect to occur, this can be described as gi ...rs swap game elements which are neighbors, removing them and rewarding the player with points if three or more game elements become aligned.
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• Extra-Game Consequences
  ...ntentionally put into the games by the designers, the skills and knowledge player learn can be seen as [[Extra-Game Consequences]] although how easily transf ...ards]] besides the [[Meta Games]] they create, and may also be [[Committed Goals]] if players need to make [[Investments]] in the form of entry fees. As a s
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• Loyalty
  ...of one's [[Loyalty]] is perceived as having betrayed oneself or that other goals are more compelling. ...oyalty]] have been misused if players behave in certain ways and leave the player's character.
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• Single-Player Games
  [[Category:Player Patterns]] ''Games where each game instance only there is only supports one player.''
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• Delayed Reciprocity
  ...e player controlling Italy supports a French Army in attacking Spain, that player does not get anything in return immediately but must trust the one playing ...do not have guarantees of being returned or by the agreeing to [[Committed Goals]] which can be considered a form of [[Investments|Investment]].
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• Ephemeral Goals
  ''Goals that have a temporary existence, that is, they can appear and disappear dur ...dent of players' actions. These goals do not have to be linked to the main goals of a game, and when they are not linked they let players choose between con
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• Player-Planned Development
  [[Category:Player Patterns]] ...rect short-term consequences of their gameplay actions. These games have [[Player-Planned Development]].
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• Construction
  ...through letting them construct structures or functionalities in [[Abstract Player Constructs]], e.g. [[Gameplay Engines]]. ...ds]] are the result of player [[Construction]], and providing this type of player activity gives a possibility for [[Varied Gameplay]] to players given this
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• Pottering
  ...''<ref name="Csíkszentmihályi, 1996"/>. Even so, games typically provide goals to players so the games as artifacts imposes what players should do. Some g ...e fully under their control and can only become damaged by neglect. Single-player versions of [[Minecraft]] provide a much greater game world in which player
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• Safe Havens
  ...] are safe for capture are thereby provide [[Safe Havens]]. In addition, a player's ''home column'' is effectively a [[Safe Havens|Safe Haven]] also since no ...n modulate rather than is in conflict with [[Combat]] since the havens are defined in contrast to the rest of [[Game Worlds]]. [[Safe Havens]] are often combi
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• Props
  ...alls]]. The can also be targets for [[Gain Ownership]] and [[Landscaping]] goals, as for example done in certain [[Quests]] in [[Ravenwood Fair]] or what is ...y:Tabletop Roleplaying Games|Tabletop Roleplaying Games]] in the form of [[Player Aids]], for example [[Maps]]. While [[Miniatures]] may share several charac
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• Warp Zones
  ...have this structure as well but make the activation of [[Warp Zones]] into player-decided actions. The portal to the ''Nether'' in [[Minecraft]] also need to ...cable, or at least that the [[Warp Zones]] only become activated after the goals are finished.
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• Tools
  ...es detailed rules for [[Tools]] that give bonuses to various skills if the player characters have them, and have entire source books dedicated to [[Tools]] a ...ks]], and [[Vehicles]]. The use of [[Tools]] can be designed so it require player actions to be successfully completed, e.g. [[Aim & Shoot]].
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• Character Development
  ...players gaining experience points, and, when enough are acquired, new star player powers. ...[[Collecting]] (e.g. "experience points") to complete [[Gain Competence]] goals; [[Character Levels]] is a common way of structuring this that supports [[L
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• Framed Freedom
  ...ces in each moment of gameplay and players need to set their own long-term goals. ...are enforcing goals or actions on them. For this reason, use of [[Enforced Goals]] or [[Timing]] is difficult to combine with the [[Framed Freedom]].
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• Player Characters
  [[Category:Player Patterns]] ...nto characters, not all are controlled by players. Those that are become [[Player Characters]].
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• Improved Abilities
  ...s' actions to be governed by rules and matched to rewards and other events defined by game states. ...they represented by [[Avatars]], [[Characters]], [[Units]], or [[Abstract Player Constructs]]?).
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• New Abilities
  ...The difference between [[New Abilities]] and [[Improved Abilities]] can be defined in several different ways: if the new actions are activated in the same way ...es in [[Technology Trees]], and these options can be applied to [[Abstract Player Constructs]], [[Characters]], or classes of [[Units]]. [[Varying Rule Sets]
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• Shrinking Game Worlds
  ...ld as game play progresses. These [[Shrinking Game Worlds]] make sure that player will eventually encounter each other. ...control the shrinkage this allows [[Player Defined Goals]] and a form of [[Player Constructed Worlds]].
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• Traverse
  ...tegory:Pool Games|Pool Games]] such as [[Eight-ball]] and [[Snooker]] have goals related to potting balls into specific pockets by hitting them with another ...sed Roleplaying Games|Computer-based Roleplaying Games]] have [[Traverse]] goals as part of many quests, and in some cases, e.g. in the [[Elder Scrolls seri
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• Meta Games
  ...players to create [[Meta Games]] depending on completing these [[Optional Goals]]. ...[[Handicap Systems]], and [[Public Player Statistics]]. [[Massively Single-Player Online Games]] also do this although less directly; here the other players'
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• Rescue
  ...players' characters know or they care about. This gives players [[Rescue]] goals, which may consist of finding the location of the kidnapped character as we [[Donkey Kong]] and the games in the [[Super Mario series]] have goals for Mario to [[Rescue]] a kidnapped girl, princess peach in the case of the
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• Extra-Game Input
  ...tent in other players' games, and [[NetHack]], where messages written by a player in one game instance can be found by players in another game instance. In [ ...working outside these tasks and changing either the game state in ways not defined by rules or changing the rules themselves.
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• Entrenching Gameplay
  ...a game that becomes more entrenched as gameplay continues. This since each player action is placing a stone on a board with a limited size, and even if stone ...rs]] or [[Factions]] so players have something that they can see as having goals or intentions.
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• Sanctioned Cheating
  ...hem in multiplayer games or might make others view the actions in a single-player game more as playing than gaming. In both case, the game design does sancti ...typically only used in [[Single-Player Games]] due to the problems with [[Player Balance]] and being able to notice its use in [[Multiplayer Games]]. [[Chea
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• Secret Goals
  ''Goals that players have which at least some other players do not have knowledge a Games gives players goals. However, some game give players [[Secret Goals]] which other players are not aware of. This makes it more difficult for ot
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• Gameplay Engines
  ''Player constructed systems that provide benefits for the player that constructed it.'' ...ture of game elements that together work in supporting players reach their goals. Such structures are called [[Gameplay Engines]].
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• Endgame Quests
  ...es]] and [[Final Fantasy VIII]] in the [[Final Fantasy series]] are single-player games with [[Endgame Quests]]. ...ached caps for certain types of development since the [[Endgame]] might be defined by this, as for example reaching the maximum [[Character Levels|Character L
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• Mutual Goals
  ''Goals that are shared by two or more agents in a game.'' ...ach. When two or more share goals for some reason these goals are [[Mutual Goals]].
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• Rewards
  ...een Dilemmas]] exist, or to cause [[Attention Swapping]]. [[Player-Defined Goals]] can let players choose with [[Rewards]] should be available to them. ...gression]], [[Geometric Progression]], or [[Discontinuous Progression]] of player effort in comparison to the size of the [[Rewards]]. Completing [[Minigames
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• Penalties
  ...iece in [[Chess]] is a [[Penalties|Penalty]] players suffer from the other player's attacks. In [[Monopoly]], [[Penalties]] include having to pay rent to oth ...Defined Goals]] can let players set what [[Penalties]] such exist for some goals in a game (including those outside the game system).
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• Goal Indicators
  ''Information presented to players about their current goals in a game.'' ...ndicators]] help players with this through providing information about the goals they (or other players) have.
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• Game State Overviews
  ...keep track of all the [[Units]] under one's control while in those with [[Player Characters]] it can instead help support [[Identification]]. The presence o ...the game state (this solution assumes that there is [[Game Worlds]] that a player's point of observation can be manipulated within). [[Privileged Movement]]
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• Continuous Goals
  ''Goals that require the player to maintain a subset of a certain game state within certain limits.'' ...possible states of the game) for some time. Those that do are [[Continuous Goals]] since players not only need to reach an acceptable game state but also co
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• Dynamic Goal Characteristics
  ''Goals that have characteristics which change during gameplay.'' ...illing them. However, this does not mean that the requirements can change. Goals with changing requirements are called [[Dynamic Goal Characteristics]].
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• Goal Hierarchies
  ...non-competition of certain goals affects the possibility to complete other goals.'' ...and short-term goals that are interrelated or let players be provided with goals during gameplay as they progress through the [[Goal Hierarchies]].
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• Interferable Goals
  ''Goals whose progress or completion can be directly influenced by other players or ...e system can affect the progress negatively. Such goals are [[Interferable Goals]].
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• Optional Goals
  ''Goals that players do not need to complete to win or finish a game.'' ...plete them. Reaching these [[Optional Goals]] may help players in reaching goals that let them win a game but can also simply exist to provide players with
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• Player-Defined Goals
  ''Goals and subgoals that players can create or customize within a game.'' ...this of course does not hinder players from adding other [[Player-Defined Goals]] that ignore these rules).
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• Predefined Goals
  ''Goals of the game that have been predefined by designers before gameplay begins.' ...re explicit prerequisite for that game are very common. Other [[Predefined Goals]] are not directly tied to winning a game but helps players through improvi
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• Preventing Goals
  ''Goals where the objective is to prevent a completion of another goal.'' ...h the goals to hinder others from completing their goals have [[Preventing Goals]].
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• Selectable Set of Goals
  ''Goals which players can choose a subset to strive towards.'' ...select goals first and then can try to achieve them or that they have all goals accessible all the time but only need to complete some of them to complete
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• Symmetric Goals
  ''Goals that from a systemic perspective are symmetric to each other.'' ...se needs, as well as the rewards completing them provides, are [[Symmetric Goals]].
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• Main Goals
  ''Goals that provide players with information and motivation about what challenges ...ated them in what actions they perform when playing. Such goals are [[Main Goals]] when they describe overarching activities or game states which lead to wi
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• Betting
  ...are used. These [[Extra-Game Consequences]] are typically also [[Committed Goals]]. While if can be difficult designing a game against people engaging in th ...e.g., determining turn order in games with [[Turn Taking]] (use of [[First Player Tokens]] show how turn order can be blurred into being more of a [[Resource
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• Bidding
  ...s their turn, and players give up the bidding lose what they have bid. The player with the best hand of those left when everybody has stopped increasing the In the Game Theory two-player game [[Dollar Auction]], both players lose what they have bid, and this fea
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• Collecting
  [[Player-Defined Goals]] [[Player-Defined Goals]]
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• King of the Hill
  [[King of the Hill]] goals pitch several players (or game-controlled agents) against each other by giv ...yer to do so for a certain amount of time or turns, which means that these goals typically are modulated by [[Time Limits]]; using [[Scores]] that increase
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