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• Main Page
  ...igns]], with the aim of supporting the design and analysis of all types of games. The bulk of the content is in individual patterns, with game pages be nume ...rs.se/Bjork_and_Zagal-Game_Design_and_RPGs.pdf Game Design and RolePlaying Games]. In Zagal, José P. and Deterding, S. (eds.), Role-Playing Game Studies: T
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• Game Servers
  ''Computer or mechanical systems responsible for running individual game instances.'' Computer-mediated games need programs to uphold the game state, handle input from players and provi
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• Testing Achievements
  Many computer games offer different ways of playing them, both in regards to which quests to st ...re focused on one strategy of completing or winning the game. However, for games with [[Varied Gameplay]] one can construct [[Testing Achievements]] to make
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• Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
  [[Category:Team-based Games]] [[Category:FPS Games]]
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• Wolfenstein: New World Order
  [[Category:FPS Games]] [[Category:Online Games]]
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• Real-Time Games
  ...These, and the computer games that followed them, thus became [[Real-Time Games]] in the sense that the game system updates automatically without player in ...craft]] and [[StarCraft series]], modify the usually slow pace of strategy games by making the game system continue without player interaction.
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• Space Hulk (video game)
  [[Category:Computer Games]] [[Category:Real-Time Games]]
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• Unwinnable Games
  ''Games that do not have any winning conditions.'' ...ems they use have no state defined as winning or no way to get there. Such games can still pose interesting challenges to players either by letting players
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• Pac-Man series
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• Roleplaying
  Games require players to adopt goals but some games make players adopt the role of fictive people and the roles they have goals ...s]]. For [[:Category:Live Action Roleplaying Games|Live Action Roleplaying Games]], see Stark 2012<ref name="Stark"/> for an overview of the American versio
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• Drop-In/Drop-Out
  Many casino games, e.g. [[Roulette]] or [[Blackjack]], consist of many quite quick game insta ...e Wars]], and the [[Team Fortress series]] as well as in real-time tactics games such as [[World in Conflict]].
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• Lego Star Wars series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Left 4 Dead series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Space Alert
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Board Games]]
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• Achievements
  ...e any given specific game instance, typically not stored on a player's own computer and publicly viewable through the internet. ...s Steam Achievements to provide similar functionality but does not require games to make use of it.
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• Massively Single-Player Online Games
  ''Games that make use of other players' game instances to provide input to the game ...yer games and the isolated gameplay of single-player games - single-player games can of course provide or encourage social interaction outside gameplay and
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• 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of Uniqueness
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Experimental Art Games]]
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• Randomness
  ...n games so that each game instance can be different. This in turn can make games interesting to play several times independent of how much variety comes fro ...ion]] where the draw stacks need to be reshuffled several times during the games.
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• PhotoGrab
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Game Element Insertion
  Some games introduce new things into the game environment as gameplay progresses. This ...(besides possibly then inserting them into the actual battle. Roleplaying games such as [[Dungeons & Dragons]] often have some initial locations with enemi
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• Luck
  ...layers to feel that they are more likely to success or perform better, the games are letting them feel [[Luck]]. ...l [[Luck]], and [[Craps]], [[Guts]], and [[Roulette]] are examples of such games. [[Blackjack]], [[Mahjong]], [[Poker]], and [[Texas Hold'em]] also hold lar
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• Dedicated Game Facilitators
  All games require some effort to maintain and update the game state. This may be as e ...mine winners. Although not part of the definitions of board games and card games such as [[Chess]], [[Go]], [[Contract Bridge]], the [[Pokémon Trading Card
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• Player/Character Skill Composites
  ...make use of the skills and equipment used by the diegetic characters. When games make use of both simultaneously, so both player and character characteristi ...Unexplored]] works similarly but as a real-time [[:Category:Computer Games|Computer Game]] also puts demands on players manual dexterity and reflexes.
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• Casual Gameplay
  ''Games where gameplay is easy to begin, perform, pause, and end, without negativel ...s. In this four main areas of difference between causal games and hardcore games are discussed: fictional presentation, game knowledge required, time invest
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• Further Player Improvement Potential
  The outcome of many games depend on the skill or knowledge of those playing it. For players that do p [[Chess]] and [[Go]] are classical examples of [[:Category:Board Games|Board Games]] which allow [[Further Player Improvement Potential]] for a lifetime to mo
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• Need for Speed series
  [[Category:Computer Games]] [[Category:Console Games]]
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• Bomberman series
  [[Category:Computer Games]] [[Category:Games]]
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• Exaggerated Perception of Influence
  ...game is a series of interesting choices,” but also in how definitions of games mention goals, conflicts and uncertainty (e.g. Suit<ref name="GameDefSuit"/ Some games allow actions that do not actually make players come closer to achieving go
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• Zombiepox
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Bloodbowl
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Board Games]]
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• Agents
  .... While these may overlook other aspects and include fantastical elements, games often include representations of [[Agents]] that actively work towards goal ...is they show little evidence for agency. In contrast, the enemies in later games such as [[Braid]], [[Gauntlet]], the [[Doom series]], the [[Left 4 Dead se
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• Avatars
  ...the game system is in this case not consistent with the original meaning; games having this design are in fact closer to using the ''Horse'' concept in Voo ...he game and provide an anchor for the players' emotional investment in the games.
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• Units
  ...games putting players in charge of small groups. In contrast, roleplaying games such as [[Dungeons & Dragons]] have players controlling one character of th ...ed to expose players to many enemies - this is especially common in zombie games, e.g. the [[Left 4 Dead]] series, the [[Dead Rising]] series, and [[Zombiep
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• Awareness of Surroundings
  ...ovement, closeness, etc., in non-combat aspects of the gameplay make these games lack some [[Awareness of Surroundings]] that socially believable characters ...coded in the various items of the environment, something which allows the games to easily be expanded with new items.
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• Emotional Attachment
  ...and can be annoyed or disappointed if these are not met. Making agents in games be able to show [[Emotional Attachment]] is a way to counter this by having [[:Category:Computer-based Roleplaying Games|Computer-based Roleplaying Games]] typically can show some [[Emotional Attachment]] but not do so consistent
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• Goal-Driven Personal Development
  Players have goals in games. However, diegetic character can have goals regarding the game world or may ...n criteria and therefore excludes many other types of goals agents playing games can have, e.g. social or experiential ones.''
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• Assassin's Creed series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Action Games]]
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• Algorithmic Agents
  Many games worlds contains more entities such as animals, people, monsters, or robots ...case the [[Algorithmic Agents]] are also used to provide opponents but in games such as [[Fable II]], [[Fallout series]], [[NetHack]], and [[Torchlight]] t
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• Role Fulfillment
  ..., [[Intrigue]], and [[So Long Sucker]]. Some [[:Category:Board Games|Board Games]], e.g. [[Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game]] and [[Shadows over Camelot ...n them). [[:Category:Live Action Roleplaying Games|Live Action Roleplaying Games]] such as [[1942 – Noen å stole på]] and [[Monitor Celestra]] are simil
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• Player-Created Characters
  ...p them to be as the players want, these are [[Player-Created Characters]]. Games with these allow players to customize not only the characters but through t ...y to begin more quickly. [[Ars Magica]] and [[GURPS]] are examples of such games where players spend points to determine attributes and other important char
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• Turn-Based Games
  ''Games where the gameplay is clearly divided into clearly defined parts where play ...ct and perform one action. However, this can challenged in various ways in games while still having them be perceived as having turns, e.g. by having severa
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• Levels
  One way that games can divide gameplay into separate sections or chunks are to spatially const ...i. e., each level presents new enemies and puzzles for the player. In some games, the levels can also have different primary activities the player has to pe
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• Non-Player Characters
  Many games depict fictional worlds populated with people of more or less human qualiti Although not that interesting as personalities, early arcade games such as [[Pac-Man]] can be said to have [[NPCs]] since each of them was giv
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• Fahrenheit
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Characters
  Many games let players control game elements that represent people or creatures that a ...s such as the [[The Elder Scrolls series]] and the [[Fallout series]], and games building on the genre, e.g. [[NetHack]], [[Torchlight]], the [[Diablo serie
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• Alter Ego
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Sleepwalker
  [[Category:Computer Games]] [[Category:Games]]
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• Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
  [[Category:Computer Games]] [[Category:Games]]
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• Continuity
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Doom series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Quake series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• World of Warcraft
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• Mercury Meltdown
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Black & White series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Real-Time Games]]
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• Fallout series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Roleplaying Games]]
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• Cursor*10
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• Battlefield series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Real-Time Games]]
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• Super Mario series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Action Games]]
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• The Legend of Zelda series
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• FarmVille
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• Eufloria
  [[Category:Games]] ...roid belt. The player must spread to other asteroids while contending with computer controlled opponents playing as other species.'' <ref name="wiki"/><ref nam
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• Game State Indicators
  ...stract game elements, diegetically. To present these types of information, games can either augment the presentation of game elements with extra [[Game Stat ...heir offspring [[:Category:Tabletop Roleplaying Games|Tabletop Roleplaying Games]] such as [[Dungeons & Dragons]] often require them as well.
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• Stimulated Planning
  ...r of possible future game states after a couple of actions decide if these games can be said to encourage [[Stimulated Planning]] amongst players. Depending ...of games that [[Stimulated Planning|Stimulate Planning]], and puzzle-like games like [[Ricochet Robots]], [[Continuity]], and [[Cursor*10]] have the same c
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• AI Players
  All games need players. However, there are not always enough people available and wil ...the [[Left 4 Dead series]], and the [[Tekken series]]). For some of these games it may be unpractical to find enough people to fill all the player slots av
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• Experimenting
  ...but in other cases they may be necessary to do in all game sessions. Some games explicitly build [[Experimenting]] into gameplay as puzzles. In these cases Linderoth<ref name="Linderoth"/> points out that actions in games are either ''exploratory'' or ''performatory'', where the former can be see
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• Strategic Planning
  Most games allow or require players to plan what they want to do later in them. [[Stra ...ctics vary. For this collection of patterns, strategy refers to aspects of games that do not depend on any specific game state while tactics relate to how o
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• Tactical Planning
  Many games make players plan what actions to perform based upon which possible action ...er]], [[Stratego]], [[Agricola]], and [[Amun-Re]] are all examples of such games that require extensive [[Tactical Planning]].
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• Enemies
  Many games have game elements that portray people or monsters that try and hinder play ...ges to the players even though they have a limited set of behaviors. Later games like the first-person shooter [[Doom series]] and the real-time strategy [[
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• Age of Empires series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Real-Time Games]]
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• Hell Tetris
  [[Category:Computer Games]] <ref name="site">Official [http://www.kongregate.com/games/banthar/hell-tetris site] for the game.</ref>
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• Extra Chances
  ...nted results, and to let players have second (and third etc.) chances some games provide the possibility to try again a limited number of times. This lets p ...er events but makes the pattern more difficult to provide in [[Multiplayer Games]] without resorting to [[Privileged Abilities]], as for example the ''Luck'
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• Diegetically Outstanding Features
  ...lly Outstanding Features]]. These can provide the basis for affordances in games<ref name="Rambusch"/> that are easily to establish, and help players with t ...e aspects may be used to create [[Environmental Storytelling]] or modulate games with a [[Detective Structures|Detective Structure]], but this can also be t
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• Freedom of Choice
  ...esides the different strategies one can use while training. Similarly some games, e.g. [[Tic-Tac-Toe]], provides several choices of where to place one's tok Open-ended games like the [[Sims series]] provide players with a multitude of game elements
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• Predetermined Story Structures
  ...he parts that make up these stories are created before gameplay begins the games have [[Predetermined Story Structures]]. ...eplay]]. [[:Category:Live Action Roleplaying Games|Live Action Roleplaying Games]] are often less pre-planned regarding events since coordinating these with
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• Optional Rules
  ...es which identify them as specific games compared to others. However, many games also have a set of associated [[Optional Rules]]. These can be ones that gr ...rules<ref name="gaming rules"/> of any game is decided by the players, all games in one sense have [[Optional Rules]].
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• Free Game Element Manipulation
  Some games are designed so they allow players to freely interact with the game element ...]] and [[:Category:Card Games|Card Games]] that are not mediated through a computer system support [[Free Game Element Manipulation]]. Several of those played
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• Player Created Game Elements
  ...reated by organizers come with all parts complete. Instead players of some games either have to create game elements themselves before gameplay begins or ca ...servers. [[:Category:Live Action Roleplaying Games|Live Action Roleplaying Games]], e.g. [[Dragonbane]] and [[Trenne Byar]], require a multitude of props an
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• Multiplayer Games
  ''Games that have more than one player.'' ...ith the advent of the internet it became practical to create [[Multiplayer Games]] with hundreds or thousands of players, first in MUDs<ref name="MUDs"/> an
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• ESP Game
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Co-Op Games]]
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• Late Arriving Players
  ...en they have to be present to be part of a game. For asynchronous games or games where you don't know all the people that are playing, it this may be necess ...sists of many rounds with only one resource changing between them. Similar games but with more complex structures, e.g. [[Texas Hold'em]] have difficulties
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• Torchlight
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• Quick Travel
  Many games make players move through their game worlds. While this makes it easy to st ...ety of the town where loot can be sold and new supplies can be bought. All games in the [[Elder Scrolls series]] but [[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind|Morr
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• Asteroids
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Real-Time Games]]
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• Tic-Tac-Toe
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Turn-Based Games]]
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• Companions
  ...sily to succeed in games if one has help. While these may be other people, games can also provide characters and other entities, commonly called [[Companion Many roleplaying games such as [[Dungeons & Dragons]] and [[GURPS]] allow players to get trained a
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• Sims series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Zero-Player Games
  ''Games where humans have no direct choices during the gameplay.'' Zero-Player Games<ref name="wiki"/> are games where humans do not directly influence the game sessions. Instead they may
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• Dialogues
  ...s or between players and the game system. When aimed at communicating with computer-controlled characters or the game system itself, the system must not only b ...a similar system for [[Dialogues]] between the player's character and two computer-controlled characters, but does this integrated with a real-time graphical
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• Enforced Agent Behavior
  Games that have developed characters may have rules to ensure that these characte The dialogue choices available in games such as the [[Mass Effect series]] or the [[Witcher series]] gives players'
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• Gossip
  Many [[:Category:Live Action Roleplaying Games|Live Action Roleplaying Games]], e.g. [[1942 – Noen å stole på]] and [[Dragonbane]], provide good set For games building on [[Roleplaying]], encouraging [[Gossip]] can be as easy as provi
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• Thief series
  [[Category:Computer Games]] [[Category:Games]]
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• Façade
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Cutscenes
  [[Cutscenes]] are used when games cannot progress the entire game story through actions and events and need t ..."/> for a discussion regarding the pros and cons of using [[Cutscenes]] in games.
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• Single-Player Games
  ''Games where each game instance only there is only supports one player.'' ...nother cost is that the game designers and developers of a [[Single-Player Games|Single-Player Game]] need to construct all the challenges to be part of the
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• Underlying Assumptions and Concepts
  ...tion each pattern should include several examples, from different types of games when possible (as the examples used have a tendency to be those played by t === Games can be described as an Activity-Based Framework of Game Components ===
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• Diegetic Consistency
  Diegesis is the presentation of the elements in a game world. However, games may need to provide more information due to their systems containing more i [[:Category:Tabletop Roleplaying Games|Tabletop Roleplaying Games]] such as [[Call of Cthulhu]], [[Storytelling System]], and [[Hârnmaster]]
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• Game Worlds
  ..., by relating to other fictional worlds (from literature, movies, or other games) and the real world they can help players understand the underlying structu ...e of fictive worlds to base differences on how the games are set up. Other games, e.g. [[Dominion]] and [[Race for the Galaxy]], have descriptions of [[Game
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• The Elder Scrolls series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Roleplaying Games]]
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• Collaborative Actions
  Some effects in games require several players to do act together for them to take place at all. T ...each others shoulders, building `human' pyramids. Further, computer-based games can easily let players not close to each other in the game still perform [[
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• Grinding
  ...or can the challenge of succeeding in performing the action. However, some games require players to, at least some of the time, repeatedly perform actions t ...Progress Quest]] critiques these kinds of design by being a game where the computer does the [[Grinding]] for the players, leaving only the minimal character c
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• Metal Gear series
  [[Category:Computer Games]] [[Category:Games]]
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• Team Fortress series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Portal series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Puzzle Games]]
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• Ephemeral Goals
  ...uring the gameplay; their appearance not known exactly at the beginning of games and failing them being possible due to causes other than players' own actio Not all goals in games are active at all points of gameplay. One category of such goals are [[Ephe
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• Minigames
  ...subordinate to the outer game for the outcome of the activity, they inner games are referred to as [[Minigames]]. ...cally these are small gambling game similar or exact instances of existing games, such as [[Poker]] or [[Craps]].
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• Combat Mission series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Cogs
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Eve Online
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Disney's Toontown Online
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• X-COM series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Civilization (video game) series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Strategy Games]]
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• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Strategy Games]]
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• Tekken series
  [[Category:Computer Games]] [[Category:Fighting Games]]
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• Advance Wars series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Counter-Strike series
  [[Category:Computer Games]] [[Category:FPS Games]]
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• Europa Universalis series
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• Silent Hill series
  [[Category:Computer Games]] [[Category:Games]]
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• The Secret of Monkey Island series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Dragon Age series
  [[Category:Computer-based Roleplaying Games]] [[Category:Roleplaying Games]]
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• Braid
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Indie Games]]
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• Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress
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• Minecraft
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• Pontifex
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Witcher series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Roleplaying Games]]
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• September 12th
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• Out Run
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• Diablo series
  [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• StarCraft series
  [[Category:Computer Games]] [[Category:Online Games]]
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• Defense of the Ancients series
  [[Category:Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Games]] [[Category:Computer Games]]
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• Army of Two: The 40th Day
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• Sleep is Death
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• Game Masters
  ..., and whole game worlds. With the appearance of computer-based roleplaying games, programs could replace people in the role of [[Game Masters]] at the expen ...leases which have followed since then, including [[Paranoia]], the various games using the [[Storytelling System]], and [[Fallen Reich]].
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• Capture
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• Qix
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• Day of the Tentacle
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• Bloodbowl (computer game)
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• Persistent Game Worlds
  Through having people or servers dedicated to them, some games can have game worlds that are always available for players to enter them. T Each [[:Category:Tabletop Roleplaying Games|Tabletop Roleplaying Game]] (e.g. [[Call of Cthulhu]] and [[Hârnmaster]])
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• Pinball Dreams
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• Entropia Universe
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• Prosopopeia
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• Massively Multiplayer Online Games
  ''Games which support hundreds or thousands of players to inhabit the same game wor ...y players share play sessions, are known as [[Massively Multiplayer Online Games]].
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• Borderlands
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• Demon's Soul
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• America's Army
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• Extra-Game Broadcasting
  Some games are designed to let people that are not playing know how gameplay progress. Games residing on social media platforms, e.g. [[FarmVille]] and [[Mafia Wars]],
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• Ravenwood Fair
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• Rock Band series
  [[Category:Computer Games]] [[Category:Party Games]]
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• Construction
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• Resource Caps
  Players very often handle different types of resources in games and acquiring more is usually beneficial. There may however be limits on ho ...any freed slots exist on their respective tracks. This is also used in the computer-based [[Fallout series]], in the first two installments through action poin
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• Action Caps
  ...voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.''<ref name="suits"/> Games often solve this by letting players choose from several possible actions bu ...on how many free slots exist on the respective tracks each player has. The computer-based [[Fallout series]] uses a similar form of restriction on actions, in
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• Boulder Dash series
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• SimCity series
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• Superstruct
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• Pottering
  ...owing from the leisure activity, and how it has been imported to design of computer applications<ref name="Taylor"/>, this type of game activity can be describ The casual games [[FarmVille]] and [[Ravenwood Fair]] let players develop garden allotments
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• Memorizing
  ...rules and specifics of game states to be able to make these choices. Those games that do have [[Memorizing]] as a gameplay mechanic and this may concern bot ...d hands other players can have. Although not forbidden by the rules of the games, casinos have rules that forbid card counting and ban players who are ident
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• Olympic Decathlon
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• Summer Games
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• PaRappa the Rapper
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• Dance Dance Revolution series
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• Dragon's Lair series
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• Hattrick
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• Possibility of Anonymity
  ...mance or wish to avoid developing any kind of social relation. To do this, games may give players a [[Possibility of Anonymity]]. ...ey are. The characters created by players of computer-mediated roleplaying games such [[Kingdoms]], [[Ultima Online]], and [[World of Warcraft]] can protect
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• Dark Age of Camelot
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• Zombie Lane
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• Geospatial Game Widgets
  Games that include racing portions or modes, e.g. the [[Grand Theft Auto series]] The computer-based [[Civilization (video game) series|Civilization series]] can show how
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• Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
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• Elite series
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• Mirror's Edge
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• Greed Corp
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• UFO series
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• Just Cause series
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• Loot
  ...nd [[Borderlands]] are examples of how [[Loot]] are used in other types of games. ...intain [[Thematic Consistency]] and to maintain [[Red Queen Dilemmas]]. In games with [[Game Masters]], they can tailor the [[Loot]] to having [[Balancing E
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• Pipe Mania
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• Viewtiful Joe
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• LittleBigPlanet
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• Pandemonium
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• Sets
  ...ules that define some combinations as [[Sets]] that either let players win games when they have collected them, determine the winner based on enumerated lis ...an be viewed as a type of [[Sets]] also. The much simpler [[:Category:Card Games|Card Game]] [[Go Fish]] uses [[Sets]] similarly to end game instances.
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• Props
  Games with [[Game Worlds]] rarely can let players interact in all conceivably pos ...]], the [[Just Cause series]], and the [[Warcraft series]] are examples of games where the trees provide gameplay functionality).
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• Warp Zones
  ...originating as computer-based games, but for [[:Category:Board Games|Board Games]] such as [[Risk]] and [[Pandemic]] it is of course noticeable since the bo ...hose done on combat maps), and the same applies to movement in text-based games such as the [[Zork series]] or [[Kingdoms]]. If this is noticeable to playe
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• Weapons
  ...riety in how this is done and let them become more and more powerful, many games let them get access to [[Weapons]]. These let the players become more effi .... [[Fallout series]] and [[Mutant]]). For [[:Category:Tabletop Roleplaying Games|Tabletop varieties]] there often exist entire books with additional [[Weapo
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• Crysis series
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• Dead Space
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• Tools
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• Adventure
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• Gun.Smoke
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• Game Items
  [[Game Items]] play larger roles in [[:Category:Roleplaying Games|Roleplaying Games]] such as [[Dungeons and Dragons]] and [[GURPS]], both as rewards and as wa ...on Roleplaying Games|LARPs]] also put much emphasis on [[Game Items]]. For games such as [[1942 – Noen å stole på]] and [[Dragonbane]], players need to
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• Inventories
  There is often a need to support functionality for managing items in games where players control characters that can carry several of these. [[Invento ...g on individual characters, including their equipment. This lead many such games, e.g. [[Dungeons and Dragons]], [[GURPS]], and [[Mutant]], to have [[Invent
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• Equipment
  In games where players can get hold of many types of items that can be used or worn, ...games sharing similarities with [[:Category:Roleplaying Games|Roleplaying Games]], including the requirement to equip items for them to be usable or affect
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• Destructible Objects
  ...he games for the activity to be possible. Not all destruction of object in games need to be due to intentional action, "natural" effects such as erosion, we ...See the Giant Bomb site for an article<ref name="gb"/> with a list of 180+ games with exploding barrels. The ruined nuclear-powered cars found in [[Fallout
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• Self-Service Kiosks
  In games where players control characters inhabiting game worlds, they may have need Many [[:Category:Computer-based Roleplaying Games|Computer-based Roleplaying Games]], e.g. the [[Witcher series]], [[World of Warcraft]], and the [[Dragon Ag
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• Ammunition
  Like in the real world, ranged weapons in many games require [[Ammunition]]. This makes them a resources that needs to be conser ...ypes of [[Ammunition]] for different types of [[Weapons]]. In addition all games but [[Fallout 3]] provide several different types of [[Ammunition]] of most
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• CityVille
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• Zoo Tycoon series
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• Red Faction series
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• Character Development
  Games that include characters under players' control often make it possible for t ...to [[:Category:Computer-based Roleplaying Games|Computer-based Roleplaying Games]], e.g. the [[Elder Scrolls series]] letting skill improvements drive level
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• Abstract Player Constructs
  Many games divide gameplay into events taking place in a game world and abstract entit ...players have (and the latter may or may not be mortgaged). Grand strategy games such as the [[Civilization (video game) series|Civilization series]] and th
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• Tamagochi
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• Dead or Alive series
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• Inaccessible Areas
  Games are typically set in some world but it is either for gameplay purposes or p ...nd [[:Category:Computer-based Roleplaying Games|Computer-based Roleplaying Games]] use Inaccessible Areas to guide the players through the Game World in a m
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• Myst series
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• Another World
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• Leisure Suit Larry series
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• Switches
  ...ors that could only be reached by quickly moving some distances within the games. Both the [[Elder Scrolls series|Elder Scrolls]] and makes use of [[Switche ...designer precise ways of knowing when players perform specific actions in games, especially when they can only be used once. This can be used to know when
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• Boss Monsters
  ''Powerful enemies players have to overcome to reach goals in games.'' ...llowing players to experience that they have reached closure points in the games, the abilities of [[Boss Monsters]] often also requires them to play differ
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• Thematic Consistency
  ...life and modeling them with [[Thematic Consistency]] can result in popular games or toys. Even though not all aspects are realistic, e.g. aliens and ghosts Besides the value of being exotic, it is very common for games to make use of themes including magic or science fiction elements since the
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• Microsoft Flight Simulator series
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• 1942
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• Temporal Consistency
  ...s let players discard sequences that are not satisfactory for some reason. Games that enforce that not sequences are discarded in this fashion have [[Tempor ...t is typically not present in [[:Category:Computer-based Roleplaying Games|computer-based versions]].
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• Super Smash Bros. series
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• Clickability
  Practically all computer or video games are played by clicking on things to one extent or another. This clicking ca Social Media games such as [[CityVille]] or [[Zombie Lane]] have clicking as both the basic wa
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• Mortal Kombat series
  [[Category:Computer Games]] [[Category:Fighting Games]]
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• Player Characters
  ''Characters in games that are under players' direct control or represent the players role in the While fictional individuals in games may have abstract qualities that make them into characters, not all are con
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• Permadeath
  ...ives or letting them start at a previous location if they die. A few other games instead have [[Permadeath]]. In these, the death of one's avatar or charact Wikipedia has a entry on ''Permanent Death'' in games<ref name="wiki"/>.
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• Movement
  ...able positions as well as control or explore game areas. In computer-based games it can give players feelings of speed and vertigo. The early computer-based games [[Spacewar!]] and [[Asteroids]] both allow players to move spaceships by ro
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• F-Zero series
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• Spacewar!
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• Max Payne series
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• One-Way Travel
  ...y in both horizontal and vertical position on the gameplay area. For those games that loop back to the first level at some point (instead of generating new ...n be explicitly design for by using [[The Show Must Go On]] in [[Real-Time Games]] to force [[Movement]] of players' [[Avatars]] (technically it may be the
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• Naming
  In many games players can create or change the specifics of their game world. One of the ...ally similar, [[Naming]] also appears in [[:Category:Manager Games|Manager Games]] such as [[Bloodbowl]], [[Hattrick]], and the [[Football Manager series]].
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• Hexen series
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• Empires & Allies
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• Bejeweled series
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• Drop 7
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• Scripted Information Sequences
  Storytelling can be difficult to use in games since the telling can come in conflict with the possibility for players to ...The [[Uncharted series]] has shown that it can effectively be used also in games played through third-person views.
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• Illusion of Open Space
  In games with game world it takes significant effort technically or in providing con The [[:Category:Computer-based Roleplaying Games|Roleplaying Games]] that make up the [[Elder Scrolls series|Elder Scrolls]] and [[Fallout ser
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• Budgeted Action Points
  Games that wish to make players have to husband the actions they perform can use ...is used to control how often certain actions can be performed in real-time games. In this case the actions costs a certain amount of points from some value
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• Temporary Abilities
  While games need to let players have some abilities to affect gameplay, not all abiliti Power-Ups in many action games only provide [[Temporary Abilities]] for short periods of time, e.g. the ''
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• Location-Fixed Abilities
  ...ries]]. Pit stops in [[Formula D]] show that [[:Category:Board Games|Board Games]] dealing with racing also can have [[Location-Fixed Abilities]]. The canno Several [[:Category:FPS Games|First-Person Shooters]] include stationary weapons. The ''40mm Bofors Anti-
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• Privileged Abilities
  Many games have different sets of actions possible for different players. The actions ...[:Category:Massively Multiplayer Online Games|Massively Multiplayer Online Games]], e.g. [[World of Warcraft]].
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• Improved Abilities
  ...to [[:Category:Computer-based Roleplaying Games|Computer-based Roleplaying Games]] with [[Torchlight]], [[World of Warcraft]], the [[Dragon Age series]], an Chargers and Power-ups in [[:Category:Racing Games|Racing Games]] such as the [[F-Zero series]], the [[Wipeout series]], and the [[Mario Ka
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• Gain Competence
  Part of the charm with playing games is the possibility of becoming better at doing so. This can be because one ...ful opponents. Learning these abilities significant help in completing the games, and gaining them may become explicit goals that are the focus of player ac
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• New Abilities
  ...ed playing. These [[New Abilities]] often give players more freedom in the games and allow them to be more empowered as gameplay continues. [[:Category:Tabletop Roleplaying Games|Tabletop Roleplaying Games]] such as [[Dungeons & Dragons]] make use of character levels and when play
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• Score Tracks
  ...higher values) is the most obvious reusable solution for non-computerized games, having [[Score Tracks]] on which each players has one lowers the number of ...ctly in their own individual areas of the interface with is updated by the computer as gameplay progresses.
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• Sidequests
  Games that are built around players solving quests can have several types of ques ...series]]. The [[S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series]] is an example of a [[:Category:FPS Games|First-Person Shooter]] using [[Sidequests]].
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• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series
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• Main Quests
  ''Quests whose completion provides the main winning condition of games.'' ...uctured around the fulfillment of quests. They often tie the main parts of games' stories to gameplay and provide frameworks for smaller quests.
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• BatMUD
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• Death Consequences
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• Deaths
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• Player Kicking
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• City of Heroes
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• Everquest series
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• Combat
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• Damage
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• Travian
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• Parties
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• Far Cry series
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• Equipment Slots
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• Replays
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• Baldur's Gate series
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• Ultima series
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• God Views
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• Focus Loci
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• God Fingers
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• Third-Person Views
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• Police Quest series
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• King's Quest series
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• Cards
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• Commando
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• Centipede
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• Populous
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• Creatures series
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• Call of Duty series
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• Functional Roles
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• Alien vs Predator series
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• Batman: Arkham Asylum
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• Skills
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• Polyathlons
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• Winter Games
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• Drafting
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• Tiles
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• Reconfigurable Game Worlds
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• Tile-Laying
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• Angband
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• Frogger
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• Procedurally Generated Game Worlds
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• Persistent Game World Changes
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• Puzzle Solving
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• Races
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• Traverse
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• Tooltips
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• Loading Hints
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• Critical Hits
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• Dead Island
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• Quick Time Events
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• Shenmue series
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• Resident Evil series
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• The Dig
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• Minesweeper
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• Crosshairs
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• Operation Wolf series
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• Red Orchestra series
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• Metal Gear Solid series
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• Split-Screen Views
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• Guitar Hero series
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• XIII
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• Arcadia
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• OpenTTD
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• Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
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• Auxiliary Game Screens
  ''Games making use of several different physical screens for gameplay.'' ...several screens and that themselves support this as well. Two examples of games that do this are the [[Quake series]] and the [[Dead Island]] game.
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• Picture-in-Picture Views
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• Hotseating
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• Heroes of Might and Magic series
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• Animal Crossing
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• FIFA series
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• Madden NFL series
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• Alternate Reality Gameplay
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• Epidemic Menace
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• Ubiquitous Gameplay
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• Angry Birds
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• Insectopia
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• Pirates!
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• Fog of War
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• Metroid series
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• Dexterity-Based Actions
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• PvE
  ...or "Player versus Environment") by players in massively multiplayer online games to distinguish it from the first one ([[PvP]], or "Player versus Player"). ...n different options of how players could play massively multiplayer online games. From this origin, in common usage it has a strong undertone of being an o
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• Unlocking
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• Turnovers
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• Steadily Decreasing Resources
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• Social Rewards
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• Coupled Games
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• Chat Channels
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• Mediated Gameplay
  ...ng players' activities to determine with gameplay actions will take place. Games that do this have [[Mediated Gameplay]]. ...[[:Category:Card Games|Card Games]], and [[:Category:Pinball Games|Pinball Games]] introduce the same separation between game state, presentation, and possi
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• Negotiable Play Sessions
  ...al players may change their preferences from play session to play session. Games that include design options to let players have varying lengths of their pl [[:Category:Puzzle Games|Puzzle Games]] such as [[Angry Birds]], [[Sokoban]], and the [[Portal series]] don't req
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• Negotiable Game Instance Duration
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• Actor Detachment
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• Seamful Gameplay
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• Silkworm
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• Star Fox series
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• Tiered Participation
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• Spectators
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• Wizard's Apprentice
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• Backseat Gamers
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• Increasing Rewards
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• Grim Fandango
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• MUD2
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• Scenes
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• Walking Dead series
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• Instances
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• Diegetic Communication
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• Summary Updates
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• Non-Consistent Narration
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• Storytelling
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• Non-Diegetic Features
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• Physical Enactment
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• SingStar series
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• Mimetic Interfaces
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• Just Dance series
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• Narration Structures
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• Wing Commander series
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• Sanctioned Cheating
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• Resources
  The games [[Lemmings]] and [[Pik-Min]] both make use of different types of units that ...es]] can serve as an example of typical [[Resources]] in a [[:Category:FPS Games|First-Person Shooter]]. Here each player (playing a "survivor") has a healt
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• Characteristics
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• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
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• Campaigns
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• Robotic Players
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• Clash of Clans
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• The Movies
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• Performance Uncertainty
  Games can let many things affect the outcome of gameplay actions and make these u ...erformance players have to do, and when they had to do it. [[:Category:FPS Games|first-person shooters]], e.g. the [[Quake series|Quake]], [[Left 4 Dead ser
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• Solution Uncertainty
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• Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
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• League of Legends
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• Alchemists
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• Complex Gameplay
  Games often strive to challenge players. One of the ways this can be done is thro ...e. the same calculations can be done in them as can be done with a generic computer.
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• Uncertainty of Outcome
  ...what other players will do. They share the latter with perfect information games such as [[Chess]] and [[Go]] but here the unpredictability of other players ...This is also found in computer-based [[:Category:Real-Time Games|Real-Time Games]], e.g. [[Counter-Strike series]], [[League of Legends]], and [[Pong]].
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• Regenerating Resources
  ''Resources in games that are created simply by the passing of game time.'' Players often manipulate various types of resources in games, and in many cases use up these through various actions. [[Regenerating Res
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• Beat the Leader
  Many games pit players against each other. When several players are pit against each o ...ame instances of [[Diplomacy]] or [[Advanced Civilization]] (including the computer-based variants [[Civilization (video game) series|Civilization series]]).
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• Last Man Standing
  ...en the competition between them is resolved by eliminating the others, the games have a [[Last Man Standing]] pattern. ...used upon [[Last Man Standing]]. Likewise, the [[:Category:Card Games|Card Games]] [[Magic: The Gathering]] and [[Hearthstone]] use the pattern.
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• Sid Meier's SimGolf
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• Scores
  ''Numerical values used in games to determine winners.'' ...he game (which can include having people tied in how well they succeeded). Games that do this through providing each player or team with a numerical value u
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• Wolfenstein series
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• Spec Ops: The Line
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• FTL: Faster Than Light
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• Planetfall
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• Downtime
  [[Downtime]] occurs in games when players perceive themselves as playing, or wanting to play, but they c ...the outcome of their actions rather than trying to perform new actions. In games with [[Ammunition]], the need to reload typically suggests the presence of
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• Attention Demanding Gameplay
  ...ttentive at any time, something that also often occurs in naturally evolve games. ...gory:Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Games|Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Games]] (e.g. [[League of Legends]], the [[StarCraft series]] and the [[Defense o
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• Player Augmentations
  An important part of many games is to let players have a chance of influencing gameplay or the overall outc ...[:Category:Massively Multiplayer Online Games|Massively Multiplayer Online Games]] (e.g. [[Ultima Online]] and [[World of Warcraft]]) allow people to write
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• Lucky Guess Solutions
  Players need to perform actions in all but the rarest of games, and in many cases may have many different actions to choose from. [[Lucky ...[Lucky Guess Solutions]]. Similarly, [[:Category:Adventure Games|Adventure Games]] such as [[The Dig]], the [[King's Quest series]], and the [[Myst series]]
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• Dishonored
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• Game Pauses
  Games typically progress through a series of gameplay events, and in many games these events progress automatically. [[Game Pauses]] are intentional breaks ...ame masters in [[:Category:Tabletop Roleplaying Games|Tabletop Roleplaying Games]] such as [[Dungeons & Dragons]] or [[Ars Magica]] can interrupt gameplay f
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• Tick-Based Games
  ''Real-time games which have sufficiently long intervals between update phases to let players ...and make use of them for planning or for deciding when to engage with the games.
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• Save-Load Cycles
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• XCOM: The Board Game
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• Utopia
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• Master of Orion
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• Reserves
  ...the gameplay being exhaustive or worse to team members. Permitting this in games introduces [[Reserves]] for each team. ...r Games|Computer Game]] example that shows how [[Reserves]] can be used in games with teams as small as those consisting of two members.
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• Teams
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• Transport Routes
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• Mutual Goals
  Players or agents in games nearly always have goals that they try to reach. When two or more share goa ...ual Goals]] of beating the other team. Likewise, players in computer-based games such as [[Defense of the Ancients]], the [[Counter-Strike series]], or [[Le
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• Setback Penalties
  Players often have to repeat challenges in games until they succeed with them. However, failing some challenges can not only ...These types of penalties exist also in [[:Category:Computer Games|Computer Games]], e.g. failing to make jumps in either the [[Super Mario series]] or the [
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• Sustenance Rewards
  Many games require players to constantly consume some type of resource or otherwise dr Ammunition are [[Sustenance Rewards]] in games such as the [[Doom series|Doom]] and [[Half-Life series]] since using vario
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• Access Rewards
  Not all games provide players with access to all gameplay content or all actions from the Characters in [[:Category:Roleplaying Games|Roleplaying Games]] such as [[Dungeons & Dragons]], [[GURPS]], the [[Elder Scrolls series]],
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• Facilitating Rewards
  ...f rewards. The ones that enable players to act more surely or effectful in games are [[Facilitating Rewards]]. Rewards that progress players closer to compl ...[[Facilitating Rewards]], as can finding ammunition for the weapons. Some games also provide [[Facilitating Rewards]] in the form of vehicles.
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• Secret Resources
  ...players do not have complete information regarding resources that exist in games. These resources are [[Secret Resources]] in one sense or another due to th ...S Games]] contain secret areas with [[Secret Resources]]. Examples of such games include the [[Fallout series]], the [[Elder Scrolls series]], the [[Doom se
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• Save Scumming
  ''Overuse of saving and loading possibilities in games that replay taking on gameplay challenges.'' ...in many computer games since it allows players to make extended pauses in games as well as try solutions to challenges many times or try different solution
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• Save Points
  Many computer games allow players to save the game state to be able to continue gameplay from t Examples of games using [[Save Points]] include the [[Assassin's Creed series|Assassin's Cree
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• Save Files
  ...take extended breaks from computer games and during this time turn off the computer. This causes a problem of how to recreate the game state at a later point i Most [[:Category:Computer Games|Computer Games]] provide support for [[Save Files]], e.g. the [[Doom series]], the [[Tomb
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• Password Save Files
  Many computer games make use of save files. [[Password Save Files]] are the ones that are small Examples of games using [[Password Save Files]] include [[The Lost Vikings]], the first [[Pop
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• The Lost Vikings
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• Value of Effort
  Practically all games make players perform action during (and/or before) game instances. However, ...ategies and tactics which let them perceive their developing skills in the games.
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• Outcome Indicators
  ...action takes place beyond a player's spheres of awareness. In these cases, games may provide explicit indicators, [[Outcome Indicators]] of what has happene [[:Category:Racing Games|Racing Games]], e.g. the [[F-Zero series]] and the [[Need for Speed series]], typically
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• Excise
  Games have game states that need to be updated during gameplay. This can feel lik Note: ''the concept of ''[[Excise]] ''comes from the field of Human-Computer Interaction<ref name="cooper"/>.
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• Progress Indicators
  ...or [[:Category:Computer-based Roleplaying Games|Computer-based Roleplaying Games]] these maps only work as [[Progress Indicators]] if the gameplay is based ...eby also modify players experiences of [[Time Pressure]]. For [[Unwinnable Games]], they may offer a way for players to compare their game instance with tha
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• Game State Overviews
  ...wever, complex game states - especially the ones which are maintained in a computer system - may not be able to directly present enough information to players Many [[:Category:Board Games|Board Games]], e.g. [[Amun-Re]], [[Carcassonne]], [[Dominant Species]], [[Inca Empire]]
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• Pillars of Eternity
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• Game Boards
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• HUD Interfaces
  ''Information and access to game actions that are presented in computer games as if they were on a plane in front of the presentation of the game world.' Computer games that have game worlds present these to players through user interfaces. How
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• Secondary Interface Screens
  ...While this screen may contain everything needs to relatively uncomplicated games in terms of game elements and possible actions, others need to let players [[:Category:Computer-based Roleplaying Games|Computer-based Roleplaying Games]] make heavy use of [[Secondary Interface Screens]]. Examples include the [
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• Snake
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• Nibbler
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• Ever Increasing Difficulty
  ...y can be said to have [[Ever Increasing Difficulty]]. This is most true in games that can never be won because they always provide new and more difficult ch ..., due to practical reasons concerning programming, the difficulty in these games flatten out as some point so they are weak examples of the game.
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• Unexplored
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• Repetition of Position Draws
  ''Rules that make games end in draws if players make position or game states repeat themselves in a ...ncrease their chances of winning. However, when players meet each other in games their actions can cancel each out in ways that make the positions of game e
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• Ghosts 'n Goblins
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• Cow Clicker
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• Cookie Clicker
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• Goal Hierarchies
  One of the typical design elements of games is goals. These provide players with motivation to perform various possible ...game and adding other goals outside the game (and thereby creating [[Meta Games]]). Support for [[Speedruns]] can be used in the same way. More implicitly,
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• Selectable Set of Goals
  Games typically provide players with many goals that they can try to complete. In The [[Ticket to Ride]] series of board games provides each player with a number of ''destination tickets'' which provide
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• Extra-Game Actions
  ...towards goals by performing actions that influence a game state. However, games also frequently support other types of actions which do not directly affect ...Extra-Game Actions]] that creates a meta game based upon a game. Note that games such as [[Poker]] do not have betting as [[Extra-Game Actions]] since the a
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• Legacy Games
  ''Games where some consequences from game instances have permanent effects on futur ...hings are typically not considered part of that game. Some games, [[Legacy Games]], however do have explicit rules on how the game should be permanently cha
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• Explicit Random Seeds
  ...hat provides different numbers each time the game is played. However, some games &mdash; especially those that generate new worlds each time they are played
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• Hiding Places
  ''Places in games that allow people or things to be hidden.'' Many games have activities which depend on players or things not being easy to find. O
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• This War of Mine
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• Execution
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• Gameplay Design Patterns DiGRA 2022 Workshop
  ...lecturer of Games Computing at University of Lincoln, UK, in the School of Computer Science. Before Lincoln he worked at Centre for Game Design Research, Royal ...esearch as a research discipline, being one of the founders of the Digital Games Research Association.
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• Gameplay Design Patterns FDG 2022 Workshop
  ...lecturer of Games Computing at University of Lincoln, UK, in the School of Computer Science. Before Lincoln he worked at Centre for Game Design Research, Royal ...esearch as a research discipline, being one of the founders of the Digital Games Research Association.
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• Hide & Seek
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• Gabriel Knight series
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• Overcome
  Games typically provide players with many goals which they need to try and succee [[:Category:Fighting games|Fighting Games]], such as the [[Mortal Kombat series]] and the [[Tekken series]], are almo
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• Tournaments
  ...pes of [[Tournaments]] arranged around them. Sports have been described as games that have organizations arranging tournaments in them and upholding their " ...have [[Tournaments]] through AI players in the [[Bloodbowl (computer game)|computer]] version).
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• Valheim
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• No Man's Sky
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• Terraria
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• Oxygen Not Included
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• Project Zomboid
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