Emotional Attachment

The ability of agents to have noticeable emotional relations inside the game world to the diegetic phenomena in that world.

Using the pattern

Characters

Relations

Can Modulate

Algorithmic Agents

Can Be Instantiated By

Actions Have Diegetically Social Consequences

History

A rewrite of a pattern that was part of the original collection in the paper Gameplay Design Patterns for Believable Non-Player Characters<ref name="Lankoski & Björk 2007"/>.

References

<references> <ref name="Lankoski & Björk 2007">Lankoski, P. & Björk, S. (2007) Gameplay Design Patterns for Believable Non-Player Characters. Proceedings of DiGRA 2007.</ref> </references>