Original Design Patterns

Question 1

The loss of ability to perform an action in the game.

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Ability Losses

Question 2

A special weakness of an enemy that can be used to defeat that enemy much easier than by other means.

Answer 2

Achilles’ Heels

Question 3

Entities in games that take the roles of players but are controlled by the game system.

Answer 3

Agents

Question 4

The act of taking aim at something and then shooting at it.

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Aim & Shoot

Question 5

Abstract game elements that provide information about particular game state changes.

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Alarms

Question 6

This goal consists of forming a linear alignment of game elements.

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Alignment

Question 7

A group of players who have agreed to obey particular and specific rules of conduct towards each other and who, usually, also have a shared agenda.

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Alliances

Question 8

The game is described as taking place in an alternative reality in order to justify and motivate game elements, possible actions, and rules that contradict the ordinary laws of nature or the usual rules of social conduct.

Answer 8

Alternative Reality

Question 9

The players can spend considerable amounts of time planning their actions, because the consequences of the actions are at least somewhat predictable, and the number of possible outcomes grows exponentially the further in game time the players plan ahead.

Answer 9

Analysis Paralysis

Question 10

The feeling of being able to predict future game events in the games to which one has emotional attachments.

Answer 10

Anticipation

Question 11

Being in control over who can move within an area in the game world, or having access to actions linked to locations in the game world.

Answer 11

Area Control

Question 12

The possible rewards have a linear relationship to the investments, that is, if the investment is double, the comparable reward is doubled.

Answer 12

Arithmetic Rewards for Investments

Question 13

Players, or game elements, do not all have the same actions available.

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Asymmetric Abilities

Question 14

Players have structurally different goals requiring different tactics and actions.

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Asymmetric Goals

Question 15

Players have different information available to them, i.e., some players know more than other players

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Asymmetric Information

Question 16

Players have different access and ownership rights to different kinds of resources during the game.

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Asymmetric Resource Distribution

Question 17

Games where the players game and play sessions do not necessarily overlap in time.

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Asynchronous Games

Question 18

Players have to move their attention between different parts of the game.

Answer 18

Attention Swapping

Question 19

A game element, which is tightly connected to the player’s success and failure in the game. In many cases, it’s the only means through which a player can affect the game world.

Answer 19

Avatars

Question 20

Rules and effects in games that lessen the differences of value used to measure competition between players.

Answer 20

Balancing Effects

Question 21

One or several players that have an agreement with other players either intentionally fail to do as agreed or otherwise hinder the fulfillment of the agreement.

Answer 21

Betrayal

Question 22

Investing resources in the likelihood of an outcome.

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Betting

Question 23

Players invest resources, usually some kind of a currency, for an uncertain outcome in order to get a reward of some kind.

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Bidding

Question 24

Players have a possibility to convey false information to other players in order to benefit from the situation.

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Bluffing

Question 25

Game elements that do not represent concrete objects in the game world but instead holds specific parts of the game state.

Answer 25

Book-Keeping Tokens

Question 26

A more powerful enemy the players have to overcome to reach certain goals in the game.

Answer 26

Boss Monsters

Question 27

Points that are used by players to do actions during their turns.

Answer 27

Budgeted Action Points

Question 28

An abstract game element that decides what is the player’s current view to the game world.

Answer 28

Cameras

Question 29

Staying in one location in the game for extended periods of time and perform the same action repeatedly.

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Camping

Question 30

The goal pattern where the end result is the elimination or change of ownership of an actively resisting goal object.

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Capture

Question 31

Physical game elements used to distribute tokens, often with different characteristics, to players without necessarily revealing the distribution.

Answer 31

Cards

Question 32

The improvement of characters’ skills or knowledge.

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Character Development

Question 33

Abstract representations of persons in a game.

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Characters

Question 34

Locations in the Game World that affect the players’ resources when they are in the location.

Answer 34

Chargers

Question 35

A game design which makes the number of a certain type of resources fixed during entire game sessions, although the resources may take different forms or have different status during that period.

Answer 35

Closed Economies

Question 36

Events in gameplay where the game state is, or can be, reduced in size.

Answer 36

Closure Points

Question 37

Clues are game elements that give the players information about how the goals of the game can be reached.

Answer 37

Clues

Question 38

Having ones attention focused upon problem-solving aspects of a game.

Answer 38

Cognitive Immersion

Question 39

Compound actions that require several players to simultaneously perform actions.

Answer 39

Collaborative Actions

Question 40

The action of gathering game elements from the game world.

Answer 40

Collecting

Question 41

The completion of several goals that together form a coherent unit.

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Collection

Question 42

Actions where the intent is to kill or otherwise overcome opponents

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Combat

Question 43

Sets of actions that trigger additional effects than those that occur due to the individual actions.

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Combos

Question 44

Goals that players have entered a form of contract to try and fulfill.

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Committed Goals

Question 45

The medium and the methods players can use to send messages to other players.

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Communication Channels

Question 46

Players have or can develop an area of specialty within a game.

Answer 46

Competence Areas

Question 47

The struggle between players or against the game system to achieve a certain goal where the performance of the players can be measured at least relatively.

Answer 47

Competition

Question 48

The goal of trying to hinder other players ability to gain information.

Answer 48

Conceal

Question 49

The goal of forming a spatial, temporal, or logical arrangement of game elements.

Answer 49

Configuration

Question 50

Two or more parties, often players or players against the game system, have goals, that cannot be satisfied together.

Answer 50

Conflict

Question 51

Linking or spatially positioning game elements to each other so that they have a physical relation.

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Connection

Question 52

Governs that the game elements, the player actions and their consequences, and the game events are consistent.

Answer 52

Consistent Reality Logic

Question 53

The action of introducing new game elements that are presented as intentional creations into the Game World.

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Construction

Question 54

Based on putting game elements together to build new kinds of game element configurations, which might have different emergent characteristics.

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Constructive Play

Question 55

A game element, usually some kind of a resource, is consumed as a consequence of a player action, certain game element configuration, or other type of a game event.

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Consumers

Question 56

A game element that can store other game elements.

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Container

Question 57

Goals that require the player to maintain a subset of a certain game state within certain limits.

Answer 57

Continuous Goals

Question 58

Game elements fixed in particular locations in the Game World that allow players to perform actions that would not be possible otherwise.

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Controllers

Question 59

Produces different types of game elements from other game elements, typically from other resources. In essence, they transform game elements into other game elements.

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Converters

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Players coordinate their actions and share resources, in order to reach goals or subgoals of the game.

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Cooperation

Question 61

Players have the ability to be creative within the Game World.

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Creative Control

Question 62

Sequences of storytelling where players cannot act within the game.

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Cut Scenes

Question 63

Effects from actions or events that can lead to negative consequences.

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Damage

Question 64

Players’ chance of succeeding with an action as a function within the game is decreased, or the calculated effect the action has in the game decreased.

Answer 64

Decreased Abilities

Question 65

Games that have machines or people who perform actions and provide choices so that players can play a game.

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Dedicated Game Facilitators

Question 66

The effects of actions and events in games do not occur directly after the actions or events have started.

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Delayed Effects

Question 67

There is a time delay in social exchange situations, i.e. the whole exchange is not immediate, something is given now and the return is to be paid back some time in the future.

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Delayed Reciprocity

Question 68

Consists of moving a certain game element to another specified game element or place within the game space.

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Delivery

Question 69

Actions whose success or failure depends on some form of physical prowess, in most cases, hand-eye coordination.

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Dexterity-Based Actions

Question 70

Physical game elements that are used to randomize an outcome from a predefined set of outcomes, each outcome having the same likelihood.

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Dice

Question 71

The returns for similar investments decrease as the player progresses in the game.

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Diminishing Returns

Question 72

Players have access to information about the game state in the same format that the game state is stored

Answer 72

Direct Information

Question 73

The area or stack where cards or tiles are placed after they have been used.

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Discard Piles

Question 74

That players’ attention is forcefully moved from one aspect of the game to another.

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Disruption of Focused Attention

Question 75

The player cannot directly affect the outcome of the game for a period of time.

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Downtime

Question 76

The collection of cards or tiles that are drawn in sequence by the players.

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Drawing Stacks

Question 77

New alliances can be created, old alliances can die out and the characteristics, especially the player composition, of an alliance can change during the game play.

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Dynamic Alliances

Question 78

Certain characteristics of the goals, usually the information available to the players, change during gameplay.

Answer 78

Dynamic Goal Characteristics

Question 79

There is a possibility that a player’s game session may finish before the other players.

Answer 79

Early Elimination

Question 80

Surprises in the game that are not related to the game.

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Easter Eggs

Question 81

The goal to remove a game element from its location in the game space.

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Eliminate

Question 82

Being emotionally affected by the events that occur in a game.

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Emotional Immersion

Question 83

Players feel that they can affect the events and the final outcome of a game.

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Empowerment

Question 84

The surrounding of game elements by a continuous line or wall.

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Enclosure

Question 85

Avatars and units that hinder the players trying to complete the goals.

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Enemies

Question 86

Goals that have a dynamic existence, that is, they can appear and disappear during the gameplay; their appearance not necessarily known at the beginning of the game and their disappearance may not be due to their completion or them having become impossible.

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Ephemeral Goals

Question 87

This is the goal to avoid being captured or hit.

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Evade

Question 88

Completing this makes the completion of other goals in the game meaningless or impossible.

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Excluding Goals

Question 89

Performing actions to learn how the rules of cause and effect work in a game.

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Experimenting

Question 90

The goal of learning the layout of the Game World, or locating specific parts or objects in it.

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Exploration

Question 91

Actions that take so long to complete that they require players to miss opportunities to perform other actions in order to complete them.

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Extended Actions

Question 92

Actions that are motivated by the game state or game design but do not affect the game state as such.

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Extra-Game Actions

Question 93

Consequences that are due to actions within games or based on game states of games but that do not affect the game state or how the game state is perceived.

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Extra-Game Consequences

Question 94

Information provided within the game that concerns subjects outside the Game World.

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Extra-Game Information

Question 95

Players are shown the game world as if they were inside it

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First-Person Views

Question 96

The game elements through which a player’s actions are taken.

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Focus Loci

Question 97

The player has no information about game world areas that are not being observed or have not yet been explored

Answer 97

Fog of War

Question 98

Players have the ability to make choices in the game.

Answer 98

Freedom of Choice

Question 99

Gaining the ability to perform a certain action within the game.

Answer 99

Gain Competence

Question 100

The goal of performing actions in the game in order to be able to receive information or make deductions.

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Gain Information

Question 101

This is simply the goal to be declared the owner of a game element.

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Gain Ownership

Question 102

People who act as game facilitators of game worlds for players.

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Game Masters

Question 103

That one can clearly distinguish between skillful and incompetent players when they are using all their skills and abilities in a game.

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Game Mastery

Question 104

The progress of game time is suspended during Game Pauses

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Game Pauses

Question 105

Players are provided with information that extends beyond the observational abilities provided by game elements

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Game State Overview

Question 106

The environment in which the gameplay or parts of the gameplay takes place is determined by the spatial relationships of the game elements.

Answer 106

Game World

Question 107

The action of trying to move from one place in the game to another when the correct way is not obviously apparent.

Answer 107

Game World Navigation

Question 108

A game which is played completely within another game.

Answer 108

Games within Games

Question 109

The possible rewards grow in geometric fashion compared to the invested resources, that is, if the investment is doubled the comparable reward is more than doubled.

Answer 109

Geometric Rewards for Investments

Question 110

Ghosts are the overlay of elements and actions from previous game sessions in a current game session so that players can compare their current progress with that of the previous attempts.

Answer 110

Ghosts

Question 111

Players are given information about his current goals in the game.

Answer 111

Goal Indicators

Question 112

Goal Points are locations in the game world which the players can enter in order to complete a goal.

Answer 112

Goal Points

Question 113

Players are given a view of the game independent of game elements

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God Views

Question 114

A God’s Finger is a game element that allows the player to affect the game world, but which cannot be affected by events in the game world itself.

Answer 114

God’s Finger

Question 115

Guard is the goal to hinder other players or game elements from accessing a particular area in the game or a particular game element.

Answer 115

Guard

Question 116

Making gameplay easier for certain players in order to make all players have the same chance to succeed.

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Handicaps

Question 117

The players are identified in the game instance, and sometimes between game instances, by short names or other at least somewhat unique identifiers.

Answer 117

Handles

Question 118

Helpers are game elements that support the players in completing goals by giving advice or by performing actions which the players are not able to perform. They are not under any players’ control, and typically do not move around in the game world.

Answer 118

Helpers

Question 119

Moving a game element to a location in the game without directly interacting with it.

Answer 119

Herd

Question 120

The goals and subgoals of the game form a hierarchy.

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Hierarchy of Goals

Question 121

High Score lists give players the chance to rank themselves against other players who have previously played the game.

Answer 121

High Score Lists

Question 122

Closures that occur progressively become more important as the game is played.

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Higher-Level Closures as Gameplay Progresses

Question 123

Events that are about to occur and can clearly be observed by players.

Answer 123

Hovering Closures

Question 124

The characters or parts of the game with which players identify.

Answer 124

Identification

Question 125

Players believe that they can influence the outcome of the game, regardless of whether this is correct.

Answer 125

Illusion of Influence

Question 126

The player receives something that is perceived as a reward but does not quantifiably help in completing a formalized goal in the game as expressed by the game state.

Answer 126

Illusionary Rewards

Question 127

Immersion in the Game World or immersion in the activity of play.

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Engrossment

Question 128

One aspect of information about the total game situation is not fully known to a player, either the information known is totally wrong or the accuracy of the information is limited.

Answer 128

Imperfect Information

Question 129

Players’ chance of succeeding with an action as a function within the game is increased, or the calculated effect the action has increased in the game.

Answer 129

Improved Abilities

Question 130

Inaccessible Areas are parts of the Game World the player can perceive but cannot currently enter, such as areas behind locked doors or sufficiently high ledges.

Answer 130

Inaccessible Areas

Question 131

Two or more goals that cannot be fulfilled simultaneously due to having end conditions that are mutually exclusive

Answer 131

Incompatible Goals

Question 132

Game elements whose actions players can affect through other game elements.

Answer 132

Indirect Control

Question 133

Players obtain information about the game situation in an indirect way, usually from other players.

Answer 133

Indirect Information

Question 134

The penalty for a failure to meet a requirement in the game is given only to one of the players.

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Individual Penalties

Question 135

The reward, or parts of the reward, for reaching a goal or performing an action in the game is given to only one of the players.

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Individual Rewards

Question 136

The game system or other players can directly influence the player’s progress towards the goal.

Answer 136

Interferable Goals

Question 137

Actions that can be interrupted before they affect the game state.

Answer 137

Interruptible Actions

Question 138

Committing Resources for a certain amount of time to something in order to reap the rewards later.

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Investments

Question 139

Invisible Walls are impassible obstacles that limit the players’ movement, but not vision, to areas that appear to be part of the game world.

Answer 139

Invisible Walls

Question 140

Actions whose effect on the game state cannot be undone.

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Irreversible Actions

Question 141

Reaching and keeping a sought for game state that other players are trying to reach and keep.

Answer 141

King of the Hill

Question 142

The goal of being the last survivor.

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Last Man Standing

Question 143

Making an action without any guaranteed, or visible, chance of success.

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Leaps of Faith

Question 144

A level is a part of the game in which all player actions take place until a certain goal has been reached or an end condition has been fulfilled.

Answer 144

Levels

Question 145

Players have little knowledge of the next events in a game, or that they do not know what consequences they will have.

Answer 145

Limited Foresight

Question 146

Players cannot make plans about what future actions to perform due to characteristics inherent in the game design.

Answer 146

Limited Planning Ability

Question 147

The resources available to the players are limited to such extent that they are forced to plan ahead the use of the resources, that is, there is a perceivable possibility of running out of the resources during the game play.

Answer 147

Limited Resources

Question 148

Players can only have a few actions to choose from.

Answer 148

Limited Set of Actions

Question 149

The number of chances a player has within a game session before it is terminated.

Answer 149

Lives

Question 150

The feeling that random effects are not random but favorable to the player.

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Luck

Question 151

Controlling the movement of game elements in real-time games.

Answer 151

Maneuvering

Question 152

Games where players gain benefit by remembering facts about the game or game state.

Answer 152

Memorizing

Question 153

A game based on the effects and outcomes of other games.

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Meta Games

Question 154

These are Tiles that can move during gameplay either as the effect of player actions or game events.

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Moveable Tiles

Question 155

The action of moving game elements in the Game World.

Answer 155

Movement

Question 156

The movement of game elements is limited in some way.

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Movement Limitations

Question 157

A Mule is a player character that is set, typically by using scripts, to perform long, monotonous and specialized sets of actions.

Answer 157

Mule

Question 158

Games that have more than one player.

Answer 158

Multiplayer Games

Question 159

The players, or some of the players, try to reach a goal within the game together.

Answer 159

Mutual Goals

Question 160

The structures of the stories that are unfolded by playing the game.

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Narrative Structures

Question 161

Players have explicit information about how close they were to achieving a goal when they have failed to achieve it

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Near Miss Indicators

Question 162

A situation where the players confer with each other in order to reach an agreement or settlement.

Answer 162

Negotiation

Question 163

Stories in games which have no predefined ends.

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Never Ending Stories

Question 164

Gaining new abilities during gameplay.

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New Abilities

Question 165

The action of doing nothing.

Answer 165

No-Ops

Question 166

The amount of resources available in the game is determined at the start of the game and these resources cannot be renewed once they are exhausted.

Answer 166

Non-Renewable Resources

Question 167

Obstacles are game elements that hinder the players from taking the shortest route between two places.

Answer 167

Obstacles

Question 168

There are goals the player does not necessarily have to reach during the game

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Optional Goals

Question 169

When Units in a game can be described by actions, abilities, and characteristics that are orthogonal to each other regarding functionality.

Answer 169

Orthogonal Unit Differentiation

Question 170

Players are given information about an outcome of an action in addition to the effect of the action.

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Outcome Indicators

Question 171

Outstanding Features are parts of the Game World that cannot be manipulated but by their shape, color, or texture convey information to players.

Answer 171

Outstanding Features

Question 172

This is the goal of the player to defeat an opposing force in a test, or a series of tests, involving attributes or performance of low-level actions.

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Overcome

Question 173

Ownership dictates which of the players have access to the Resources and other game components and how.

Answer 173

Ownership

Question 174

Sets of three or more actions form cycles where every action has an advantage over another action.

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Paper-Rock-Scissors

Question 175

Parallel Lives are used in games where the player controls or protects several game elements which each can be considered to have a life of its own.

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Parallel Lives

Question 176

Players are inflicted with something perceived as negative or stripped of an advantage, due to failure to meet a requirement in the game.

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Penalties

Question 177

That players can notice a perceivable difference between how well actions are performed in the game, or a noticeable difference between the game state before and after the actions are performed.

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Perceivable Margins

Question 178

Players believe, whether correctly or not, that they have a chance to succeed with actions in a game.

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Perceived Chance to Succeed

Question 179

The player has full and reliable access to current or past information about a game component, or that total current or past game state is known to the player

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Perfect Information

Question 180

The storage of the game state of a single game instance in Persistent Game Worlds is independent from the players’ game and play sessions.

Answer 180

Persistent Game Worlds

Question 181

Pick-Ups are game elements that exist in the game world and can be collected by players, usually by moving an avatar or Units in contact with the Pick-Up.

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Pick-Ups

Question 182

When Character evolution is under players’ control and can be projected.

Answer 182

Planned Character Development

Question 183

Players have equal chances of succeeding with actions in a game or winning a game.

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Player Balance

Question 184

Game Worlds that are created by players.

Answer 184

Player Constructed Worlds

Question 185

Players, or at least some of the players, are responsible for deciding at least some of the results of the player actions. These decisions are not necessarily based on the rules of the game.

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Player Decided Results

Question 186

Goals and subgoals that players can create or customize within the game itself.

Answer 186

Player Defined Goals

Question 187

In games with Player Elimination, the players’ game sessions can be finished without the players consent, often as a penalty for failing to achieve something.

Answer 187

Player Elimination

Question 188

Allows players to intentionally or unintentionally remove players from the game for at least some time.

Answer 188

Player Killing

Question 189

That one or more player controls the process of distributing between several players the rewards for completing, or the penalties for failing, a goal.

Answer 189

Player-Decided Distribution of Rewards & Penalties

Question 190

Polyathlons are tournaments that consist of several different types of games.

Answer 190

Polyathlons

Question 191

Power-Ups are game elements that give time-limited advantages to the player that picks them up.

Answer 191

Power-Ups

Question 192

Predefined Goals are preset by the game designer, usually arranged in a rigid hierarchy, which can only be adaptable by players’ choices or interpretations if the design allows it.

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Predefined Goals

Question 193

Players can predict how the game state will change if they perform actions, or possibly sequences of actions.

Answer 193

Predictable Consequences

Question 194

Goals where the objective is to prevent a completion of another goal.

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Preventing Goals

Question 195

Privileged Abilities are those that let players perform actions that are not readily available to all other players.

Answer 195

Privileged Abilities

Question 196

Being able to do a form of movement that other game elements cannot.

Answer 196

Privileged Movement

Question 197

Producer-Consumer determines the lifetime of game elements, usually resources, and thus governs the flow of gameplay.

Answer 197

Producer-Consumer

Question 198

A game element, usually some kind of a resource, is produced as a consequence of a player action, certain game element configuration, or other type of game event.

Answer 198

Producers

Question 199

The player is given information about his current progress towards a closure in addition to the configuration of game elements involved

Answer 199

Progress Indicators

Question 200

All or part of the information of the game state is available during the game to people other than the players

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Public Information

Question 201

Actions that can be solved through deductive or inductive reasoning.

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Puzzle Solving

Question 202

Quick Games have a single concrete goal and few basic actions.

Answer 202

Quick Games

Question 203

The competition between players to be the first to reach a certain goal, often being the first to a certain location following an approved route.

Answer 203

Race

Question 204

Effects or events in the game cannot be exactly predicted.

Answer 204

Randomness

Question 205

The progression of game time during play is tied to the real time.

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Real-Time Games

Question 206

The player can reconfigure the game world itself, including the basic relationships and attributes of the game elements and the rules governing the dynamics of these relationships.

Answer 206

Reconfigurable Game World

Question 207

Patrolling a known area in the game world to detect changes.

Answer 207

Reconnaissance

Question 208

Information or potential goals that are designed to either mislead or distract the player

Answer 208

Red Herrings

Question 209

Players have to constantly progress in the game in order to maintain a relative level of power or success compared to other players.

Answer 209

Red Queen Dilemmas

Question 210

A type of resource of which more instances can be generated during game play.

Answer 210

Renewable Resources

Question 211

The level to which a game provides new challenges or experiences when played again.

Answer 211

Replayability

Question 212

Rescue is the goal of freeing someone or something that is guarded.

Answer 212

Rescue

Question 213

Resource Generators are specific places or game elements producing resources, in effect tying the production of resources in the game to a particular place in the game world.

Answer 213

Resource Generators

Question 214

Resource Locations are the locations where resources are found in the game world.

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Resource Locations

Question 215

The players have to plan, manage, and control resource flows within the game in order to reach the goals of the game.

Answer 215

Resource Management

Question 216

Game elements that are used by players to enable actions in a game.

Answer 216

Resources

Question 217

Game elements that are used by players to enable actions in a game.

Answer 217

Resources

Question 218

The possibility of returning to a previous game state of the whole or just parts of the game.

Answer 218

Reversability

Question 219

The player receives something perceived as positive, or is relieved of a negative effect, for completing goals in the game.

Answer 219

Rewards

Question 220

Actions that require players to time their actions several times in a row.

Answer 220

Rhythm-Based Actions

Question 221

That the level of complexity by the player in the game is the one intended by the game design.

Answer 221

Right Level of Complexity

Question 222

That the level of difficulty experienced by the player is the one intended by the game design.

Answer 222

Right Level of Difficulty

Question 223

That the chance for receiving a Reward in the game is linked to some risk of receiving a Penalty if the player fails to acquire the Reward.

Answer 223

Risk/Reward

Question 224

The shift between two different roles which are each others opposite.

Answer 224

Role Reversal

Question 225

Players have characters with at least somewhat fleshed out personalities. The play is centered on making decisions on how these characters would take actions in staged imaginary situations.

Answer 225

Roleplaying

Question 226

Save Havens are locations in the game world where game elements under the players’ control are safe from the actions of other players or the game events.

Answer 226

Safe Havens

Question 227

Save Points are the points in gameplay where the players can choose to save the game state so that they can return to it later.

Answer 227

Save Points

Question 228

The actions of saving and loading game states.

Answer 228

Save-Load Cycles

Question 229

Score is the numerical representation of the player’s success in the game, often not only representing the success but also defining it.

Answer 229

Score

Question 230

Alliances, or the special characteristics of alliances, which by definition are unknown to at least some of the players.

Answer 230

Secret Alliances

Question 231

Secret Resources are resources that are unknown to at least some of the players.

Answer 231

Secret Resources

Question 232

The player can select the goals he tries to achieve in the game from a set of available goals.

Answer 232

Selectable Sets of Goals

Question 233

Games that require that the players ensure that the rules are being followed and require the players to perform any necessary book-keeping actions.

Answer 233

Self-Facilitated Games

Question 234

The flow experience of performing repetitious actions, which provide sensory feedback.

Answer 234

Sensory-Motoric Immersion

Question 235

The penalty for a failure to meet a requirement in the game is shared between some or all of the participating players.

Answer 235

Shared Penalties

Question 236

The players, or some of the players, have at least potential access to the same resources.

Answer 236

Shared Resources

Question 237

The players who were involved in some way in reaching a goal in the game share the reward.

Answer 237

Shared Rewards

Question 238

The game world shrinks and thus restricts players’ movement in the game.

Answer 238

Shrinking Game World

Question 239

Games where there is only one player in a game instance.

Answer 239

Single-Player Games

Question 240

The numerical representation of how likely a Unit or Character is to succeed with an action, and what possible consequences the action has.

Answer 240

Skills

Question 241

Games designed to provide players with the possibility of smoothly progressing from novice to master.

Answer 241

Smooth Learning Curves

Question 242

The players tend to compete against each other even though cooperation would be beneficial for all players involved.

Answer 242

Social Dilemmas

Question 243

Social Interaction is when two or more players have two-way communication between each other, i.e., the other players can respond to the individual player’s communication.

Answer 243

Social Interaction

Question 244

Social Organizations are more or less stable group of players who have common long-term interests within the game.

Answer 244

Social Organizations

Question 245

Social Status is defined by the extent to which the player is admired, esteemed or approved by the other players of the game as well as by persons outside the game.

Answer 245

Social Statuses

Question 246

Perceiving movement in the game from the perspective of oneself moving.

Answer 246

Spatial Immersion

Question 247

Positions in the game where Units, Avatars, or Enemies appear.

Answer 247

Spawn Points

Question 248

The action of an Avatar appearing in the game world.

Answer 248

Spawning

Question 249

People, possibly former, current, or future players, who observe the actions that players do in a game without being able to affect the game themselves.

Answer 249

Spectators

Question 250

Players are given information about a certain part of the game state or other players through other means than observing a game element

Answer 250

Status Indicators

Question 251

Stealth is the goal to move through a certain area and perform an action without being detected.

Answer 251

Stealth

Question 252

Games that encourage players to plan about certain aspects of the game.

Answer 252

Stimulated Planning

Question 253

The act of telling storieswithin the game.

Answer 253

Storytelling

Question 254

Knowledge based on processing information about the game elements, rules, possible actions, or evaluation functions of a game without regards to a specific game state.

Answer 254

Strategic Knowledge

Question 255

Strategic Locations in the Game World that give an advantage to the players controlling them.

Answer 255

Strategic Locations

Question 256

Completion of a Supporting Goal helps the player achieve the other, sometimes specific, goals of the game.

Answer 256

Supporting Goals

Question 257

Events and consequences that are unexpected by players and disturb their attention.

Answer 257

Surprises

Question 258

The goal of trying to avoid being killed by actions of other players and events in the game.

Answer 258

Survive

Question 259

The players have goals with the same definition, for example, to be the first one to reach a certain area or amount of points, solve a problem, find an item, or overcome the opponent.

Answer 259

Symmetric Goals

Question 260

All players have the same information about the game state, or part of the game state, available to them

Answer 260

Symmetric Information

Question 261

The resources are distributed symmetrically and evenly among the players, that is, the players have similar access and ownership rights to the resources.

Answer 261

Symmetric Resource Distribution

Question 262

Symmetrical relations exist between players regarding the goals, resources, and actions they can perform.

Answer 262

Symmetry

Question 263

Games in which the players’ game and play sessions must overlap in time.

Answer 263

Synchronous Games

Question 264

Teams have equal chances of succeeding with actions in a game or winning a game.

Answer 264

Team Balance

Question 265

The efficiency of the team is improved either intentionally or unintentionally.

Answer 265

Team Development

Question 266

The elimination of the whole team in team-oriented games is an end condition and the evaluation function.

Answer 266

Team Elimination

Question 267

Players in a group or a team coordinate their actions, abilities, and roles in order to reach a common goal.

Answer 267

Team Play

Question 268

The feeling of caring about the outcome of actions or events in a game without having full control over them.

Answer 268

Tension

Question 269

The game state can change without any player actions.

Answer 269

The Show Must Go On

Question 270

Players are shown the game world with a focus on a game element under the players’ control

Answer 270

Third-Person Views

Question 271

The game time progresses according to real time, but in discrete steps.

Answer 271

Tick-Based Games

Question 272

A rule that distinguishes outcomes in a game from each other so that what would otherwise be a tie in the results can be treated as having quantitative differences.

Answer 272

Tiebreakers

Question 273

Two results can be regarded as even in the game and the effects of the results can be divided.

Answer 273

Tied Results

Question 274

The placing of tiles as actions in the game.

Answer 274

Tile-Laying

Question 275

Tiles are areas within the game world that partition it into separate parts, usually filling the whole game world.

Answer 275

Tiles

Question 276

The Time Limit for completing an action, reaching a goal, staying in a certain mode of play, or finishing a game session has a limit based on either game time or real time.

Answer 276

Time Limits

Question 277

The effect on gameplay that actions have to be performed at certain points in game time to be performed at all or that the direct effect of actions varies greatly depending on when they are performed.

Answer 277

Timing

Question 278

Tools are game elements that enable the players’ Avatars and Units to perform actions otherwise unavailable to them.

Answer 278

Tools

Question 279

Tournaments consist of the playing of a series of game instances where the outcome of each instances affects the outcome of the whole tournament.

Answer 279

Tournaments

Question 280

Traces are game elements, or distinct parts of the game world, that are created when game elements are moved through the environment. Traces can also show what has happened before the gameplay began.

Answer 280

Traces

Question 281

That players must choose between several different options and compare values against each other.

Answer 281

Tradeoffs

Question 282

Players exchange some kind of Resource, be it information, actions, or game elements, between each other or the game system.

Answer 282

Trading

Question 283

Information that is passed from one game session to another game session.

Answer 283

Trans-Game Information

Question 284

When the influence over a game element is passed from one player to another.

Answer 284

Transfer of Control

Question 285

The goal to try and move a game element from one position in the game to another.

Answer 285

Traverse

Question 286

Letting one player do some action or actions before letting the other players act.

Answer 286

Turn Taking

Question 287

The players take turns to make their actions to change the game state, and the progress of game time is not tied to the real time.

Answer 287

Turn-Based Games

Question 288

Events that cannot be affected by player actions.

Answer 288

Ultra-Powerful Events

Question 289

The information available to the player may have different levels of reliability

Answer 289

Uncertainty of Information

Question 290

The players have a possibility to start and end alliances without direct in-game investments or risking penalties.

Answer 290

Uncommitted Alliances

Question 291

Units are groups of game elements under the player’s control that let the player perform actions to influence the Game World.

Answer 291

Units

Question 292

Goals initially, or currently, unidentified by players.

Answer 292

Unknown Goals

Question 293

The game provides variety in gameplay, either within a single play session or between different play sessions.

Answer 293

Varied Gameplay