Focused Patterns

This chapter contains pattern exercises that are very focused or specific. These exercises give examples of how to hone the process to produce patterns that are generally low level and address the specific concerns of a particular domain of game design. Circulation patterns define how a player moves...

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Published inPattern Language for Game Design Vol. 1; pp. 147 - 183
Main Author Barney, Chris
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published CRC Press 2021
Edition1
Subjects
Anarchy Online
NPC
Lich King
Pyramid Head
Wrath Of The Lich King
Maximum Run Speed
Emergent Narrative
High Level Patterns
Repeat Step
Mining Ship
Pattern Exercises
Elder Scrolls
Board Game
Silent Hill
Team Fortress
Secret World
Star Citizen
Circulation Patterns
Parent Patterns
Pattern Template
Child Patterns
Environmental Narrative
Game Design
Id Software
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Summary:This chapter contains pattern exercises that are very focused or specific. These exercises give examples of how to hone the process to produce patterns that are generally low level and address the specific concerns of a particular domain of game design. Circulation patterns define how a player moves a character through a gamespace and are usually discussed in terms of level design. However, their scope extends beyond the way a character moves through a level (macro circulation patterns) to include how the player moves through the overall game (meta circulation patterns) as well as movement in individual encounters within a level (micro circulation patterns). The ideas of environmental narrative and embedded narrative are related, but slightly different. A designer creates environmental narrative by placing things in the game world such that they tell a story about what has happened before the player’s arrival.
ISBN:0367633957
9780367367725
9780367633950
0367367726
DOI:10.1201/9781003119029-14