Game Time Manipulation

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Examples

Max Payne

Braid

Anti-Examples

Zork II Day of the Tentacle

Using the pattern

Game Time Manipulation is typically only used in Single-Player Games since when it is applied to Multiplayer Games it typically removes the Player Agency of other players.

Can Modulate

Power-Ups, Real-Time Games, Time Limited Game Instances, Time Limits

Can Be Instantiated By

Game Pauses, Save-Load Cycles

While it may seem like Game Time Manipulation would break Temporal Consistency of a game, this does not need to be the case if the Game Time Manipulation is diegetically explained (i.e. the game has time travel as a diegetic component).

Game Time Manipulation

Consequences

Game Time Manipulation can give players

Can Instantiate

Freedom of Choice, Privileged Abilities, Reversibility

with Single-Player Games

Penalties, Rewards

Relations

Can Instantiate

Freedom of Choice, Privileged Abilities, Reversibility

with Single-Player Games

Penalties, Rewards

Can Modulate

Power-Ups, Real-Time Games, Time Limited Game Instances, Time Limits

Can Be Instantiated By

Game Pauses, Save-Load Cycles

Can Be Modulated By

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Possible Closure Effects

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Potentially Conflicting With

Player Agency in Multiplayer Games

History

New pattern created in this wiki.

References

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Acknowledgements

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