Pattern Suggestion List

Note: not all these patterns should necessary be made...

Note: to make a new pattern, use the Gameplay Design Pattern Template

Note: the suggested patterns are not made as links to avoid hiding patterns that are actually referenced to

Suggestion from non-users for new patterns will hopefully be possible to do on the discussion page soon.

Patterns

From the cd-rom

Ability Losses

Achilles' Heels

Agents

Aim & Shoot

Alignment

Alliances

Alternative Reality

Anticipation

Area Control

Arithmetic Rewards for Investments

Asymmetric Abilities

Asymmetric Goals

Asymmetric Information

Asymmetric Resource Distribution

Asynchronous Games

Attention Swapping

Avatars

Balancing Effects

Betrayal

Betting

Bidding

Bluffing

Book-Keeping Tokens

Boss Monsters

Budgeted Action Points

Buttons

Cameras

Camping

Capture

Card Hands

Cards

Character Development

Characters

Chargers

Closed Economies

Closure Points

Clues

Cognitive Immersion

Collaborative Actions

Collecting

Collection

Combat

Combos

Committed Goals

Communication Channels

Competence Areas

Competition

Conceal

Configuration

Conflict

Connection

Consistent Reality Logic

Construction

Constructive Play

Consumers

Contact

Container

Continuous Goals

Controllers

Converters

Cooperation

Creative Control

Cut Scenes

Damage

Deadly Traps

Decreased Abilities

Dedicated Game Facilitators

Delayed Effects

Delayed Reciprocity

Delivery

Dexterity-Based Actions

Dice

Diminishing Returns

Direct Information

Discard Piles

Disruption of Focused Attention

Downtime

Drawing Stacks

Dynamic Alliances

Dynamic Goal Characteristics

Early Elimination

Easter Eggs

Eliminate

Emotional Immersion

Empowerment

Enclosure

Enemies

Ephemeral Goals

Evade

Excluding Goals

Experimenting

Exploration

Extended Actions

Extra-Game Actions

Extra-Game Consequences

Extra-Game Information

First-Person Views

Focus Loci

Fog of War

Freedom of Choice

Gain Competence

Gain Information

Gain Ownership

Game Masters

Game Mastery

Game Pauses

Game State Overview

Game World

Game World Navigation

Games within Games

Geometric Rewards for Investments

Ghosts

Goal Indicators

Goal Points

God Views

God's Finger

Guard

Handicaps

Handles

Helpers

Herd

Hierarchy of Goals

Higher-Level Closures as Gameplay Progresses

Hovering Closures

Identification

Illusion of Influence

Illusionary Rewards

Immersion

Imperfect Information

Improved Abilities

Inaccessible Areas

Incompatible Goals

Indirect Control

Indirect Information

Individual Penalties

Individual Rewards

Interferable Goals

Interruptible Actions

Investments

Invisible Walls

King of the Hill

Last Man Standing

Leaps of Faith

Levels

Limited Foresight

Limited Planning Ability

Limited Resources

Limited Set of Actions

Lives

Luck

Maneuvering

Memorizing

Meta Games

Moveable Tiles

Movement

Movement Limitations

Mule

Multiplayer Games

Mutual Goals

Narrative Structures

Near Miss Indicators

Negotiation

Never Ending Stories

New Abilities

No-Ops

Non-Renewable Resources

Obstacles

Optional Goals

Orthogonal Unit Differentiation

Outcome Indicators

Outstanding Features

Overcome

Ownership

Paper-Rock-Scissors

Parallel Lives

Penalties

Perceivable Margins

Perceived Chance to Succeed

Perfect Information

Persistent Game Worlds

Pick-Ups

Planned Character Development

Player Balance

Player Constructed Worlds

Player Decided Results

Player Defined Goals

Player Elimination

Player Killing

Player-Decided Distribution of Rewards & Penalties

Polyathlons

Power-Ups

Predefined Goals

Predictable Consequences

Preventing Goals

Privileged Abilities

Privileged Movement

Producer-Consumer

Producers

Progress Indicators

Public Information

Puzzle Solving

Quick Games

Race

Randomness

Reconfigurable Game World

Reconnaissance

Red Herrings

Red Queen Dilemmas

Renewable Resources

Replayability

Rescue

Resource Generators

Resource Locations

Resource Management

Resources

Reversability

Rewards

Rhythm-Based Actions

Right Level of Complexity

Right Level of Difficulty

Risk/Reward

Role Reversal

Roleplaying

Safe Havens

Save Points

Save-Load Cycles

Score

Secret Alliances

Secret Resources

Selectable Sets of Goals

Self-Facilitated Games

Sensory-Motoric Immersion

Shared Penalties

Shared Resources

Shared Rewards

Shrinking Game World

Single-Player Games

Skills

Smooth Learning Curves

Social Dilemmas

Social Interaction

Social Organizations

Social Statuses

Spatial Immersion

Spawn Points

Spawning

Spectators

Status Indicators

Stealth

Stimulated Planning

Storytelling

Strategic Knowledge

Strategic Locations

Supporting Goals

Surprises

Survive

Symmetric Goals

Symmetric Information

Symmetric Resource Distribution

Symmetry

Synchronous Games

Team Balance

Team Development

Team Elimination

Team Play

Tension

The Show Must Go On

Third-Person Views

Tick-Based Games

Tiebreakers

Tied Results

Tile-Laying

Tiles

Time Limits

Timing

Tools

Tournaments

Traces

Tradeoffs

Trading

Trans-Game Information

Transfer of Control

Traverse

Turn Taking

Turn-Based Games

Ultra-Powerful Events

Uncertainty of Information

Uncommitted Alliances

Units

Unknown Goals

Varied Gameplay

New from various sources

IPerG: D5.8

1.1 Communication Channels 1.2 Social Interaction 1.3 Asynchronous Games 1.4 Memorabilia 1.5 Unmediated Social Interaction 1.6 Chat Forum 1.7 Coupled Games 1.8 Social Rewards 1.9 Configurable Gameplay Area 1.10 Late Arriving Players 1.11 Interruptability 1.12 Common Experiences 1.13 Game Element Trading 1.14 Hybrid Space 1.15 Social Skills 1.16 Real Life Activities Affect Game State 1.17 Heterogeneous Game Element Ownership 1.18 Asynchronous Collaborative Actions 1.19 Selectable Functional Roles 1.20 Negotiable Play Sessions 1.21 Negotiable Game Sessions 1.22 Negotiable Game Instance Duration 1.23 Negotiable Game Time Activity Blending Selectable Social Roles

NPC design with Petri

To be added

Social NPC design with Petri

Actions Have Social Consequences

Binding Promises

Brokering

Competing for Attention

Context Dependent Reaction

Eavesdropping

Either You are with Me or against Me

False Accusations

Favor

Fraction

Gain Allies

Gossip

Guide and Protect

Hierarchical Fraction

Information Passing

Internal Conflict

Internal Rivalry

Linked Destinies

Loyalty

Maintaining Lies

Match-Making

Memory of Important Events

My Enemy’s Enemy is my Friend

Others fortune affects own Mood

Outcast

Outspoken Support

Requesting Support

Social Gatekeeper

Social Maintenance

Social Norm

Traitor

Dialogue design with Jenny

Incremental Dialogue Processing

Chunk-based Dialogue Processing

Single-Initiative Dialogues

Mixed Initiative Dialogues

Basic Input Feedback

Barge-In

Canned Text Responses

Diegetically Consistent Dialogue

Context Dependent Dialogue

Gameplay Integrated Conversation

Illocutionary Interface

Location-Specific Dialogue

Character-Specific Dialogue

Colloquial Mastery

Delicate Phrasing

MMOG design by Jenny's master students

To be added

Pervasive games with Johan Peitz

To be added

Unknown

Persistant State World Fixed Real-World Exchange Rate Death game mönstret Point of No Return

New from working with the wiki

Private Game Spaces [Like Puerto Rico, Race to the Galaxy etc.] --Staffan Björk 16:10, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Time Pressure [Surprised that this doesn't exist already, or have a missed one?] --Staffan Björk 08:36, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Attention Demanding [grew out of rewriting real-time games] --Staffan Björk 16:08, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Togetherness [grew out of rewriting real-time games, and makes Karl happy maybe] --Staffan Björk 16:18, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Option Interfaces [grew out of real-time games, pop-up choices outside the main game interface, does this exists already partly?] --Staffan Björk 17:58, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Acheivements [from many online games] --Staffan Björk 11:00, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Buddy Lists [from many online games] --Staffan Björk 11:25, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Gameplay Statistics [from rewriting high score lists] --Staffan Björk 12:28, 8 November 2009 (UTC)