Non-Player Help

The designed possibility for people not playing the game to help players.

This pattern is a still a stub.

Examples

Alternate Realty games<ref name="arg"/>

Contestants in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? have several lifelines to help them during the game, one such is Phone-A-Friend which allows a non-player to suggest an answer.

Using the pattern

Private Game Spaces

Late Arriving Players

Diegetic Aspects

Interface Aspects

Narrative Aspects

Consequences

Relations

Can Instantiate

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Can Modulate

Can Be Instantiated By

Can Be Modulated By

Possible Closure Effects

Potentially Conflicting With

History

New pattern created in this wiki.

References

<references> <ref name="arg">Wikipedia entry for Alternate Reality Games.</ref> </references>

Acknowledgements

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