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Emergent gameplay is the creative use of a game in ways unexpected by the game designer's original intent. It commonly appears as complex behaviors that emerge from the interaction of simple game mechanisms. Tug of war is an easily organized, impromptu game that requires little equipment. ...
A game designer is a person who designs games. ...
A termite cathedral mound produced by a termite colony: a classic example of emergence in nature. ...
Emergent play can either be totally outside the game (machinima) or have a direct impact on the gameplay (see "game currency trading" below). A scene from the popular machinima series Red vs. ...
Gameplay includes all player experiences during the interaction with game systems, especially formal games. ...
Emergent gameplay is the creative use of a game in ways unexpected by the game designers original intent. ...
The components of a game can be broken down in basic form to include: a game universe, game rules, game objects, communication tools, game objectives (or winning scenario) and game engine (or board). Emergent play usually involves leveraging one or more of these components.
More recently game designers have attempted to encourage emergent play by providing tools to players such as placing web browsers within the game engine (such as in EVE Online, The Matrix Online), providing XML integration tools and programming languages (Second Life), and fixing exchange rates (Project Entropia). An example of a Web browser (Internet Explorer 7) A Web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. ...
EVE Online is a persistent world multiplayer online game set in space. ...
The Matrix Online (MxO) is an MMORPG developed by Monolith Productions. ...
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ...
A programming language is an artificial language that can be used to control the behavior of a machine, particularly a computer. ...
Second Life (abbreviated as SL) is an Internet-based virtual world launched in 2003, developed by Linden Research, Inc (commonly referred to as Linden Lab), which came to international attention via mainstream news media in late 2006 and early 2007. ...
Entropia Universe is a massive virtual universe with a virtual economy, where Entropia Universe currency can be redeemed for US Dollars. ...
Examples
Unusual AI behaviour Emergent gameplay can arise from a game's AI performing actions or creating effects unexpected by even the software developers. This may be by either a software glitch or by software that allows for AI development; for example the unplanned genetic diseases that can occur in the Creatures series. [1] Game artificial intelligence refers to techniques used in computer and video games to produce the illusion of intelligence in the behavior of non-player characters (NPCs). ...
Screenshot of Creatures 3 Creatures is an artificial life (alife) computer program series, created in the mid-1990s by English computer scientist Steve Grand whilst working for the Cambridge computer games developer Millennium Interactive. ...
Creative solutions In games with complex physics and flexible object interaction it may be possible to complete in-game problems using solutions that the game designers did not foresee. Deus Ex is often cited as a game responsible for promoting the idea of emergent gameplay, [2] with players developing interesting solutions such as using wall-mounted mines as pitons for climbing walls. This article is about the video game. ...
In climbing, a piton (also called a pin or peg) is a steel spike that is driven into a crack or seam in the rock with a hammer, and which acts as an anchor to protect the climber against the consequences of a fall, or to assist progress in aid...
Machinima Machinima is the art of making films using a game engine. Cut scenes in games rendered using the game models instead of motion video or actors are examples of machinima. Usually though the term is used to describe content not originally developed for the game. A scene from the popular machinima series Red vs. ...
Glitch or quirk-based strategies - See also: Glitch
In several games, especially first-person shooters, game glitches or physics quirks can become viable strategies, or even spawn their own game types. In id Software's Quake series, rocket jumping is one such strategy. For other uses, see Glitch (disambiguation). ...
This article is about video games. ...
id Software (IPA: officially, though originally ) is an American computer game developer based in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. ...
Zombies attacking the player at the starting of Episode 1, Mission 3: The Necropolis. ...
Rocket jumping is a method of increasing a players jumping ability in a computer or video game. ...
Thanks to a programming oversight by Capcom, the combo (or 2-1 combo) notion was introduced with the fighting game Street Fighter II, when skilled players learned that they could combine several attacks that left no time for their opponents to recover, as long as they were timed correctly.[3] For the original NASA meaning, see capsule communicator. ...
Liu Kang after performing a 7-hit combo on Scorpion in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. ...
Street Fighter II ) is a 1991 competitive fighting game by Capcom. ...
Sequence breaking Completing games without getting certain items or by skipping seemingly required portions of gameplay result in sequence breaking, a technique that has developed its own dedicated community. Often, speed of completion and/or minimalist use of items are respectable achievements. In computer and video games, sequence breaking is the act of performing actions or obtaining items out of the intended linear order, or of skipping “required†actions or items entirely. ...
This technique has long been used in the Metroid game series and has developed into a community devoted to speed runs. The Metroid ) games are a series of video games produced by Nintendo. ...
A speedrun (IPA: ) is a play-through of a computer or video game, created with the intent of completing it as quickly as possible, optionally under certain conditions, mainly for the purposes of entertainment and competition. ...
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In online car racing games, particularly Project Gotham Racing, players came up with this variation. The racers play on teams of at least two cars. Each team picks one very slow car, and their goal is to have their slow car cross the finish line first. Thus the team members in faster cars aim to push their slow car into the lead and ram their opposing teams' slow cars off the road. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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A racing game is any game that involves competing in races through a surrogate playing piece or vehicle, either getting it from one point to another or completing a number of circuits in the shortest time. ...
Project Gotham Racing (PGR) is a racing game franchise developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Microsoft for the Xbox and Xbox 360 gaming consoles. ...
Real economy interaction -
Traders in massively multiplayer online games with economic systems play purely to acquire virtual game objects or avatars which they then sell for real-world money on auction websites or game currency exchange sites. This results in the trader's play objective to make real money regardless of the original game designer's objectives. A virtual economy (or sometimes synthetic economy) is an emergent economy existing in a virtual persistent world, usually in the context of an Internet game. ...
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Many games prohibit currency trading in the end user license agreement (EULA), but it is still a common practice. The issue of currency trading is hotly debated in gaming circles. A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ...
Some players provide real world services (like website design, web hosting) paid for with in-game currency. This can influence the economy of the game, as players gain wealth/power in the game unrelated to game events. For Example, this strategy is used in Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft. Blizzard Entertainment is an American PC game developer and publisher. ...
World of Warcraft (commonly abbreviated as WoW) is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Blizzard Entertainment and is the fourth game in the Warcraft series, excluding expansion packs and the cancelled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans. ...
Gambling Gambling and lotteries may occur in online role-playing games such as EVE Online and Dark Age of Camelot. The provision of gambling services in exchange for in-game currency can take the forms of a lottery, card games, event betting, or any number of other variations, most often at least loosely based on established real-world games. Players typically establish a betting facility, lottery etc. Players typically create a website for executing the gambling, then accept payment from gamblers using in-game currency to credit the gambler's website account. Winnings are then paid back to the gambler's account. // For the game on The Price Is Right, see Card Game (pricing game). ...
Game financial institutions In games with no financial law game mechanism, players develop financial institutions. Forms include banks or investment schemes launched with an IPO, typically based purely on trust. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
The world's first MMORPG IPO was ISS Marginis[4] by the Interstellar Starbase Syndicate (ISS) in Eve-Online, on 29 September 2005. This was for a dividend based on profitability. The ISS followed up with a series of IPOs, culminating in an IPO of the player guild itself[5] promising a fixed return, like a Bond. Eve-Online has no game-mechanism for financial law. An image from World of Warcraft, one of the largest commercial MMORPGs as of 2004, based on active subscriptions. ...
For alternative meanings, see bond (a disambiguation page). ...
See Also The term metagame arose in mathematics as a descriptor for set interaction that governs subset interaction in certain cases. ...
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