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• Pattern Suggestion List
  ==== Goals and Goal Structures ==== [[Victory Points]] (as tokens) --[[User:Staffan Björk|Staffan Björk]] 08:59, 27 February 2
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• Grind Achievements
  ...ally for the individual classes (''Team Doctor'' for accumulate 25000 heal points as a Medic and ''Hot on Your Heels'' for killing 50 enemies from behind wi ...gy weapons respectively) and what type of healing one uses (healing 10,000 points with food gives ''Desert Survivalist'' while doing so with Stimpaks gives '
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• Goal Achievements
  [[Category:Goal Patterns]] ''Achievements given to completing a goal in the game.''
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• Challenging Gameplay
  ...tasks can lead to the game session being terminated, while having [[Spawn Points]] for resurrected [[Avatars]] can lead to [[Challenging Gameplay]] in the f ...]], including positive [[Extra-Game Consequences]] such as acknowledging [[Goal Achievements]] (and possibly [[Grind Achievements]] based on these). Howeve
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• Analysis Paralysis
  ...ern in the sense that avoiding to have it in a game is more often a design goal than intentionally having it. [[Ricochet Robots]] is however an example whe ...[Analysis Paralysis]] occurring. [[Action Caps]] such as [[Budgeted Action Points]] provide means of expanding the number of decisions the players have to ma
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• Left 4 Dead series
  ...having the role of special infected have the [[Preventing Goals|Preventing Goal]] of hindering those playing uninfected humans. The game [[Levels]] are arr ...to being hit by its attack) giving players a [[Continuous Goals|Continuous Goal]] of keeping a distant to them. Witches are powerful opponents but do not a
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• Cooperation
  ...s simply the intentional joint effort by several agents to try and reach a goal. In games, this allow players to divide tasks between them and rely upon ea ...der to defeat Sauron. The gameplay her is fully cooperative since the main goal, defeating Sauron, is common to all players, that is, either the players wi
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• Higher-Level Closures as Gameplay Progresses
  ...gns typically needs to be verified by play tests. However, using [[Closure Points]] and [[Access Rewards]] to organize closure possibilities is probably the ...d in level designs in this sense to guarantee greater closures at specific points in the gameplay (and shows how [[Higher-Level Closures as Gameplay Progress
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• Exaggerated Perception of Influence
  ...nce. However, that influence cannot be to powerful since then reaching any goal in any given game would become too easy and lose whatever potential for app ...ance of succeeding one may believe that one can after many actions reach a goal. [[Randomness]] can achieved [[Exaggerated Perception of Influence]] but th
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• Agents
  ...als through manipulating the game environment. These [[Agents]] may be the points through which player can interact with the game or be the conduits for game ...meplay concepts and allow [[Goal-Driven Personal Development]]. However, [[Goal-Driven Personal Development]] can be applied to any type of [[Agents]], i.e
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• Avatars
  ...rivileged Abilities|Privileged Ability]] of being able to act as a [[Spawn Points|Spawn Point]]. Besides what actions the avatars can perform, their likeliho ...or the activation of a new [[Avatars|Avatar]]). This makes the [[Survive]] goal an integral part of many games using [[Avatars]].
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• Units
  ...Budgeted Action Points]] are a common solution and varying how many action points [[Units]] have is yet another was to give them [[Asymmetric Abilities]]. [[ ...reating multiple different lanes which the [[Units]] use to move towards a goal area.
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• Goal-Driven Personal Development
  [[Category:Goal Patterns]] ...reach closure points regarding their old goals, they can be said to have [[Goal-Driven Personal Development]].
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• Assassin's Creed series
  Hit points, some regeneration === Goal Structures ===
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• Levels
  ...a part of the game in which all player action takes place until a certain goal has been reached or an end condition has been fulfilled.'' ...ten have the possibility to leave these [[Levels]] without completing some goal.
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• Characters
  ...r control their own [[Characters|Character]], and one of the main types of goal in the games is to raise the character's level, stats, or skills. This has ...have [[Characters]] that can develop between levels by gaining experience points in various skills.
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• Stimulated Planning
  ...redict how immediate actions can be combined to get closer to reaching the goal with a level of certainty making the planning seem meaningful. A basic dich ...ed Story Structures]] is a common tool to provide players with a long-term goal not immediately accessible, but [[Diegetically Outstanding Features]] in [[
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• Experimenting
  Linderoth<ref name="Linderoth"/> points out that actions in games are either ''exploratory'' or ''performatory'', w ...s pipes, bowling balls, cats, candles, ropes, and balloons to try to reach goal states by making the objects interact with each other in certain ways. In [
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• Enemies
  ...eversible Event]]), e.g. related to a [[Gain Ownership]] or [[Eliminate]] goal. [[Ever Increasing Difficulty]] can through this be added to a game by guar ...vent]] and provides a basis for a [[Time Limits|time-limited]] [[Survive]] goal) or have rules for determining when the change occur. Thus, player may have
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• Freedom of Choice
  ...ces can vary between people. It can seem that there are no choices in some goal-oriented activity requiring skills, e.g. solving puzzles or participating i ...f Choice]] since this can let players create [[Traces]]. [[Budgeted Action Points]] are a way to increase the [[Freedom of Choice]] existing in possible acti
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• Predetermined Story Structures
  ...Characters]] through [[Companion Quests]]. This is since they both provide points of [[Emotional Engrossment]] to the players and are [[Agents]] which are ne ...xamples of this). [[Gain Competence]] goals typically can combine gameplay goal of improving one's position in the game with narrative goals, and closures
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• Heterogeneous Game Element Ownership
  ...new game instance. By doing so, each game instance has different starting points and players have direct influence over how the game evolve besides be able ...mer 40K]] which let players build their own armies for a certain amount of points before the game begins. They can buy any from the lists contained in the va
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• Multiplayer Games
  ...e gameplay, either against each other or working together towards a common goal. Before the emergence of video games basically only puzzles were not multip ...nation]], can be wanted is that one wants to use the [[Last Man Standing]] goal so that the last player(s) having [[Lives]] left wins. [[Races]] in [[Multi
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• Torchlight
  [[Goal Achievements]] Experience and fame points are gained through killing monsters and finishing quests.
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• Alignment
  [[Category:Goal Patterns]] ''The goal of forming a linear alignment of game elements.''
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• Single-Player Games
  ...minate]] goals or as having [[Opposing Goals]] to the player's [[Survive]] goal. For example, [[Pac-Man]] can be analyzed as a game between the Pac-Man and ...rs]]. In these cases this is used to either provide several different view points ([[Fahrenheit]]) to achieve a [[Melodramatic Structures|Melodramatic Struct
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• Diegetic Consistency
  ...es to upholding this consistency can come when system terms (such as ''hit points'', ''character levels'', ''skill levels'', etc.) are mixed into the descrip ...on]], [[Extra-Game Input]], [[Geospatial Game Widgets]] (including [[Check Points]], [[Ghosts]], [[Reward Widgets]]), and [[Tooltips]]. [[HUD Interfaces]] ma
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• Ephemeral Goals
  [[Category:Goal Patterns]] Not all goals in games are active at all points of gameplay. One category of such goals are [[Ephemeral Goals]], whose defi
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• Minigames
  ...[[Rewards]] or [[Punishments]] or the completion of specific goals in a [[Goal Hierarchies]]. While the unspecified nature of the gameplay required of [[M ...are examples of [[Easter Eggs]]. The end of [[Minigames]] can make natural points for players switching place in games with [[Hotseating]].
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• Arithmetic Progression
  ...much a player can do each turn have a direct translation between how many points are used on movement and how far one can move. This is for example true in ...everal times with a linear relation between the [[Rewards]] given for each goal.
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• Quests
  [[Category:Goal Patterns]] ...entioning since they do not have any gameplay function besides that of the goal but can still have diegetic roles. While any type of [[Rewards]] can work,
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• Geospatial Game Widgets
  ...to show which parts of it can be examined for clues, while [[Dead Space]] points out the present of items that can be picked up by showing information about ...es|Board Games]] as well. Examples of games that make use of these to show goal destinations include [[Ricochet Robots]] and [[RoboRally]]. The [[:Category
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• Sets
  ...g hand depends on the combination of [[Sets]] and since one receives extra points for certain combinations this can be viewed as a type of [[Sets]] also. The ...rs only count the lowest card when scoring (the goal is to received as few points as possible).
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• Installations
  ...advantages to those that control an area to fulfill a [[King of the Hill]] goal. ...Widgets]]. They are also quite likely [[Obstacles]] and can create [[Choke Points]].
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• Game Items
  [[Game Items]] can be used as goal objects in [[Gain Ownership]] goals, especially if there is only one instan ...s]], or [[Levels]], their positions are [[Resource Locations]] and [[Spawn Points]] if they are replenished through [[Spawning]]. While the presence of [[Gam
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• Destructible Objects
  ...e Objects]] create [[Obstacles]] when destroyed this can result in [[Choke Points]] emerging during gameplay. [[Choke Points]]
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• Obstacles
  ...ight walls (and other robots) to collide with is the only way to reach the goal destinations. ...y]] by creating [[Choke Points]]. When the [[Obstacles]] block the [[Choke Points]] rather than define them but can be removed in some fashion, this instead
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• Inaccessible Areas
  ...ccess Rewards|Access Reward]] (this requirement is most often completing a goal in the previous [[Levels|Level]]). The same goes for [[Transport Routes]], ...let [[Enemies]] create [[Conditional Passageways]] by controlling [[Choke Points]], e.g. those present in [[Galleries]]. [[Sniper Locations]] and [[Strongho
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• Invisible Walls
  ...can show parts of game worlds that players cannot affect (at least at some points in time), this can be used to provide diegetic reasons why [[Scripted Infor ...be able to see the spatial location of the goal point of the [[Traverse]] goal but require [[Game World Navigation]] to get there.
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• Pick-Ups
  ...include [[Ammunition]], [[Armor]], and [[Health]] (energy and [[Experience Points]] are less common but found in [[Zombie Lane]] and [[Ravenwood Fair]]). Sim As [[Pac-Man]] shows, [[Pick-Ups]] make clear goal objectives for [[Gain Ownership]] goals since they are usually easy to dist
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• Boss Monsters
  ...elf. Besides allowing players to experience that they have reached closure points in the games, the abilities of [[Boss Monsters]] often also requires them t ...hree games it uses a Tyrannosaurus Rex as Lara Croft's opponent at various points.
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• Thematic Consistency
  ...of Surroundings]], [[Character Development]], [[Emotional Attachment]], [[Goal-Driven Personal Development]], [[Initiative]], [[Open Destiny]], [[Own Agen ...etic themes. For this reason, having [[Diegetic Communication]] is often a goal when wanting to have [[Thematic Consistency]]. [[Invisible Walls]] are inte
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• Strategic Knowledge
  ...Rico]] it may instead knowing which different strategies exist to collect points through making use of synergies. Related, being aware of how various card w ...stallations]], [[Resource Locations]], [[Self-Service Kiosks]], or [[Spawn Points]] since their presence makes the areas into [[Strategic Locations]]. Relate
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• Player Characters
  ...son Shooters]] by letting players develop characters by gaining experience points that can be used to unlock new abilities. ...cters]] to make players experience [[Character Engrossment]]. A supporting goal for this can be that players should as much as possible know and experience
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• Strategic Locations
  ...ritory: Quake Wars]] gameplay typically revolve around controlling certain goal areas which also are [[Strategic Locations]]. ...elements that can create explicit [[Strategic Locations]] include [[Spawn Points]], [[Resource Generators]], [[Resource Locations]], and also [[Location-Fix
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• Lives
  ...l arcade version of [[Pac-Man]] gave players a single extra life at 10,000 points but other implementations give this at numerous occasions. In [[Asteroids]] ...ble (although these amount also decreases if enemy teams have control over goal locations).
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• Player Killing
  ...e any special items and abilities gained and are transferred back to spawn points. [[Frag]] is an example of a [[:Category:Board Games|Board Game]] built aro
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• Area Control
  ...the game board in [[Chess]] is one of the main strategies in the game. The goal of [[Go]] is to have efficient [[Area Control]] over as much of the board u ...ne of the goals in the [[Battlefield series]] is to have control over flag points. This is done by teams by having sole presences in the areas around the fla
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• Conditional Passageways
  ...wise [[Inaccessible Areas]]. One way of doing this is by inserting [[Choke Points]] together with [[Enemies]] or [[Obstacles]] - making the removal of the [[ ...hey can modulate who and when [[Traverse]] goals can be completed - if the goal locations are inside (temporarily) [[Inaccessible Areas]] these two can cre
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• Game World Exploration
  [[Category:Goal Patterns]] ''The goal or phase of learning the layout of a game world, or locating specific parts
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