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• Pattern Suggestion List
  [[Player-Decided Results]] ==== Player Experience and Game Mastery ====
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• Goal Achievements
  For longer single-player games, and especially those with multiple endings, [[Goal Achievements]] ar ...s the choice of which goal to use, which can be either an [[Enforced Goals|Enforced Goal]] or an [[Optional Goals|Optional one]]. For [[Optional Goals]], havin
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• Real-Time Games
  ...me Games]] in the sense that the game system updates automatically without player involvement. ...lly slow pace of strategy games by making the game system continue without player interaction.
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• Unwinnable Games
  ...ate designated as the winning one. Both [[Multiplayer Games]] and [[Single-Player Games]] can be [[Unwinnable Games]]. ...to players' [[Focus Loci]]. [[Grinding]] that lets players continuously do actions for little or no progress in the game, relying primarily on players losing
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• Roleplaying
  [[Category:Player Patterns]] ...stems that can use different game worlds. These game worlds can be totally player-created, but there are also commercial game worlds available. Other games,
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• Achievements
  ...ssible outside any given specific game instance, typically not stored on a player's own computer and publicly viewable through the internet. ...d for perseverance in that are only given for performing a certain task or actions for a great number of times. For an alternative categorization of [[Achieve
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• Tension
  ''The feeling of caring about the outcome of actions or events in a game without having full control over them.'' ...n front of others. [[Spectators]] can amplify this, and even make gameplay actions which require no performative aspects to cause [[Tension]] because others m
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• Dedicated Game Facilitators
  ''Programs, machines, or people who perform book-keeping actions and/or control various agents to provide gameplay to players.'' ...should be hidden from all players, the impartial judging or performing of actions, and resolving complex algorithms during gameplay. Since letting players pe
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• Player/Character Skill Composites
  [[Category:Player Patterns]] ''Outcomes of player actions that depends both on both player and character characteristics.''
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• Exaggerated Perception of Influence
  ...actions, through active opposition or through randomness in the outcome of actions. ...e. When these actions appear meaningful, including being meaningful to the player but not within a game state perspective, the players have an [[Exaggerated
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• Agents
  ...ing the game environment. These [[Agents]] may be the points through which player can interact with the game or be the conduits for game facilitators or sepa ...and the [[Super Mario series]], adjust their actions in response to player actions. This is typically enhanced by them going from passive modes to active mode
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• Algorithmic Agents
  ...x have processes for learning under which contexts one should perform what actions. ...he infected that attack the players' characters, but also to control other player characters if there are not four people available. In all these case the [[
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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
  ...early divided into clearly defined parts where players can plan and select actions'' ...sly, being able to do several actions, introducing time limits to make the actions, or letting other players have the possibility of interrupting turns.
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• Non-Player Characters
  ...the graphical representation of a person in the game world (a sort of non-player version of the [[Avatars|Avatar]] patterns). Although the common usage may Note: ''the abbreviation'' [[NPCs]] ''is very common for'' [[Non-Player Characters]] ''and is used here as well.''
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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=" ...r example the ''Light Gem'' in the [[Thief series]] showing how hidden the player's [[Avatars|Avatar]] is) while the other can be used to provide [[Game Stat
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• Stimulated Planning
  ''Gameplay structures that encourage players to plan future actions in the game.'' ...enges a game presents, the planning may include anticipating other players actions and planning.
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• AI Players
  [[Category:Player Patterns]] ...of these games it may be unpractical to find enough people to fill all the player slots available, so the norm in these cases is that some or the majority of
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• No Direct Player Influence
  [[Category:Player Patterns]] ...arat]], [[Craps]], and [[Roulette]] can be seen as examples of [[No Direct Player Influence]] since they are pure games of chance when players are actually o
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• Freedom of Choice
  ''The freedom to choose between several different actions or choices which all seem meaningful.'' ...choices" argues this, as does the definitions of game from Costikyan where player ''make decisions''<ref name="Costikyan"/> and Abt where players are ''indep
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• Predetermined Story Structures
  ...because players may discuss what narrative experiences they had with other player who have also played the game. ...ained [[Predetermined Story Structures]] in games which multiple different player groups can experience independently without affecting each other. On an ele
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• Action Programming
  ''The choosing of one or more actions for future execution.'' ...ctions should be selected, and then as they gameplay progresses make these actions take places. This type of gameplay structure is called [[Action Programming
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• Multiplayer Games
  [[Category:Player Patterns]] ''Games that have more than one player.''
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• Social Dilemmas
  ...to cooperate can cause problems for those players because they might exist actions that would benefit them individual but harm the larger group. ...me mechanics force them to entry alliances and pacts to be able to perform actions, and [[Intrigue]] is balanced so they are likely to have and break deals la
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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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• Zero-Player Games
  [[Category:Player Patterns]] Zero-Player Games<ref name="wiki"/> are games where humans do not directly influence th
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• Actions Have Diegetically Social Consequences
  ''Actions by a person in a game world influences how other people perceive and intera ...-player character will act toward the acting character. Different types of actions have different consequences: stealing will trigger hostile behavior while d
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• Character Defining Actions
  ''That the choices of actions players make during gameplay define their characters.'' ...ne gives effects through the narration not only on the boy but also on the player's character.
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• Enforced Agent Behavior
  ''The enforcement of certain actions in order to maintain or develop an agent’s personality.'' ...characters that are under players' control this may require limiting what actions they can make the characters perform, or taking control way from them.
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• Factions
  ''Specific diegetic social networks where membership is defined by what actions are favored, disfavored, and required.'' ...monsters. Some rivaling factions are react diametrically different to some actions, so for example killing a pirate of the Bloodsail Buccaneers may result in
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• Extra-Game Consequences
  ''Consequences outside game states that are due to actions or events within those game states.'' ...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
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• Internal Rivalry
  ''Being a player or character within one's same social network as an enemy or competitor.'' ...nal Rivalry]] between the NPCs in the player's party. Depending on how the player acts towards them this can lead to the relations developing positively or t
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• Loyalty
  ...remise for the gameplay so that players have a diegetic motivation for the actions. [[Loyalty]] can also become part of gameplay itself if it is possible to g ...oyalty]] have been misused if players behave in certain ways and leave the player's character.
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• Cutscenes
  ...scenes]] are used when games cannot progress the entire game story through actions and events and need to give longer descriptions and explanations to players ...enes]] are more often applied to [[Penalties]] and [[Rewards]] in [[Single-Player Games]].
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• Game Worlds
  ...rstand the underlying structure of the game system and give meaning to the actions taking place during gameplay. ...this to motivate some differences in connectivity, resources, and possible actions between different parts of them. Other games, e.g. [[Elfenland]] or [[Risk:
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• Collaborative Actions
  ''Compound actions that require several agents to perform specific individual actions for them to occur.'' ...er for them to take place at all. These actions are called [[Collaborative Actions]] since the players are either actively collaborating or can be seen to do
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• Handicap Systems
  ...lanced and all players have equal chance of succeeding in the game. Single-player games can also provide [[Handicap Systems]] - in this case to let players d ...ple 80% or 140%. This allows one player to have a handicap against another player.
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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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• Game Masters
  ...Masters]] at the expense of being able to improvise in response to player actions. To compensate for this, solutions where people and programs share the resp ...as solve social conflicts. These [[Game Masters]] were recruited from the player base and could still continue as players if they wanted. The commercial [[:
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• No-Ops
  ''Player actions that perform no change on the game state.'' ...on them as punishments for other players or as effects of the player's own actions.
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• Enforced Player Anonymity
  [[Category:Player Patterns]] ...yer Anonymity]] so that interaction beyond that available through gameplay actions is either impossible or only possible after some screening process.
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• Possibility of Anonymity
  [[Category:Player Patterns]] ...ir contact with each other mediated through [[Avatars]], [[Handles]], or [[Player Characters]] and this requires either [[Communication Channels]] that can e
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• Game Items
  ...rs can picked up and carried by players' avatars or units. They can affect actions and attributes, and acquiring them or moving them to specific locations ma ...ungeons and Dragons]] and [[GURPS]], both as rewards and as ways of making player characters better. One evidence of their role is the fact that entire suppl
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• Transferable Items
  ...orlds. This is possible if they are [[Transferable Items]], i.e. there are actions that make it possible to change who possesses specific game items. ...at pickup, use, or equip them. Such game items can only be traded with non-player characters but doing this removes them from the game state.
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• Character Development
  ...er be in the form of becoming more likely to succeed with actions, or make actions that were previously unavailable possible. It is typically explained within ...ameplay and the development of social relations affect narration or social actions. Gaining new powers is also common, e.g. both [[GURPS]] and [[Dungeons & Dr
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• Framed Freedom
  Games often try to present players with a freedom regarding the actions possible in order for them to feel that they have meaningful choices. At th ...he games 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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• Thematic Consistency
  ...on of things in any given moment, but how events unfold over time and what actions are plausible. ...gic or science fiction elements since they allow a wider range of possible actions and game elements while still maintaining [[Thematic Consistency]]. To take
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• Ability Losses
  ''The event of losing the abilities of performing certain actions in a game.'' ...[[Ability Losses]] may be penalties for failing goals, the effect of enemy actions, the lack of resources, but may also simply be due to different play modes
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• Death Consequences
  ...nated from gameplay and thereby make players suffer losses in the possible actions they can do, and can even result in them losing the entire games. However, ...tiated typically done through [[Ability Losses]], [[Decreased Abilities]], enforced [[Downtime]], or reduced [[Scores]]. [[Ability Losses]] and [[Decreased Abi
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• Player Kicking
  ''The extra-game action of removing a player from game instances.'' ...ame facilitators can enforce that offending players do not play anymore, [[Player Kicking]] them, in order to be able to continue with the gaming activity.
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• Handles
  ...h each other. The [[Handles]] are also used to let players find friends to player together with, something especially important in cooperative games such as ...ntrolled by the game system (or [[Game Servers]]) or be informally done by player agreement. When [[Avatars]] and [[Handles]] exist in games, [[Handles]] are
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• Evade
  ...n [[Chess]], either as "optional goals" when any piece is threatened or as enforced goals when one's king is checked. ...ghost move from having [[Capture]] goals to having [[Evade]] goals if the player gets hold of a power pill.
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• Steadily Decreasing Resources
  ...]] used. Some games have [[Steadily Decreasing Resources]] even if not all actions require use of [[Resources]] if over time one can guarantee that they will
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• Chat Channels
  ...ave many was of receiving input from players are providing output of their actions and other game events. One of these ways is through text, and often the int ...he [[Chat Channels]]. Using [[Illocutionary Interfaces]] dictate that some actions need to be able to be sent through them and this can be mapped to [[Canned
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• Mediated Gameplay
  ...rs to view and interpreting players' activities to determine with gameplay actions will take place. Games that do this have [[Mediated Gameplay]]. ...for players to know what this game state is and what the effects of their actions have been. Making computerized version of [[:Category:Board Games|Board Gam
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• Communication Channels
  ...y the words that one of the members tries to draw within a time limit. The player drawing is not allowed to speak so all communication needs to be through th ...Information]] about the game state to each other. The latter is typically enforced by [[Limited Communication Abilities]] but some form of [[Communication Cha
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• Social Skills
  ...lay where players social abilities affect how well they succeed with their actions.'' ...ules for how actions are performed, others have actions where how well the actions are performed depend more on how they are perceived by other players they a
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• Negotiable Game Sessions
  ...ombie Lane]] only lets players weakly interact with each other and have no enforced winning conditions so players can play them for as long as they wish motiva ...l gameplay experience. The minimum amount of time or actions required of a player can be affected by [[Difficulty Levels]] while [[Speedruns]] make a goal of
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• Social Roles
  [[Category:Player Patterns]] ...categories for gamers that do have aspects of social roles, these describe player preferences. The pattern described here looks at how gameplay features can
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• Actor Detachment
  [[Category:Player Patterns]] ...Games]] such as [[Pac-Man]] or [[Space Invaders]] do this by being single-player games where players compete against previous players for positions on high
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• Player Anonymity
  [[Category:Player Patterns]] ''The case where the identity of a player of a game is not known to other players.''
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• Uncertainty of Information
  ''The case when a player cannot be certain on the reliability of information he or she has.'' [[Battleship]] and [[Stratego]] both depend on a player not knowing the exact positions of the other players' piece. [[Diplomacy]]
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• Downtime
  ...may be due to technological reasons, having to wait for other players, or enforced waiting periods due to game effects. Having to wait for the other player to make his or her move in [[Chess]] or [[Go]] is an example of [[Downtime]
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• Player Augmentations
  ...have a chance of influencing gameplay or the overall outcome of a game. [[Player Augmentations]] are improvements to players' abilities to perform that are ...master]] can let player characters have greater chances of succeeding with actions simply by ruling that they have a greater chance.
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• Automated Responses
  ...ey do inform players about game elements are in fact triggered by specific actions by players rather than game state configurations. Stronger examples can be ...ame states while [[Algorithmic Agents]] and [[Mules]] can perform gameplay actions as [[Automated Responses]].
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• Player/System Action Composites
  ...itiated by either that player or the system, or where the execution of the actions are performed together.'' ...m as it is being executed. Games that do either of these two things have [[Player/System Action Composites]].
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• Friend Lists
  ...nctions rely on [[Friend Lists]], i.e. lists with the other players that a player has indicated can be important or relevant for their own gameplay. ...join the same game instances or together set up new game instances. Single player games such as [[Farmville]] or [[Candy Crush Saga]] also make use of [[Frie
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• Teams
  ''Agents or game elements that use their actions to work towards the same common goal or goals.'' ...t it, and also often have several different game elements that can perform actions. When either of these two groups are given common goals that they can toget
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• Committed Goals
  ...can commit to building a railway line between cities. Once committed, the player will at the end of the game either receive a certain amount of points if su ...s]] (or more correctly [[Agents]]), e.g. if they engage in [[Collaborative Actions]] where failure leads to [[Shared Penalties]]. [[Negotiation]] can be allow
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• Dynamic Goal Characteristics
  ...ing the goal card criteria, the specific winning goal changes as soon as a player plays a new goal card. ...player" this is also dynamic since it depends on how many points the other player has.
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• Predefined Goals
  [[Chess]] has the [[Predefined Goals]] for each player to checkmate the other player's king. [[Monopoly]] has the [[Predefined Goals|Predefined Goal]] of elimin ...ans that some [[Rewards|Reward]] in addition to the normal consequences of actions or game states are added if a [[Predefined Goals|Predefined Goal]] should b
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• Selectable Set of Goals
  The [[Ticket to Ride]] series of board games provides each player with a number of ''destination tickets'' which provides goals. Players have ...s]] to each player since it is not important which goals are achieved; the player who reaches a certain total (typically 10) wins the game.
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• Gain Ownership
  ...gher-Level goal, or may simply make it easier to complete various types of actions or goals. ...he [[Capture]] can be lead in a direct improvement in the positioning of a player's pieces). Tied to these examples are the case if [[Gain Ownership]] gives
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