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 ====== Information awareness======
 The pattern refers whether and how much information will be concealed from or revealed to the players by the game.
+Information that is hidden can be disclosed to players when certain conditions are met.
+In this pattern, **information** concerns the state of the game (and not, say, the answer to a puzzle). An example is the current location of the opponents.
 In multiplayer games **information awareness** can regulate the [[en:patterns:balance_cooperation_and_competition|balance of cooperation and competition]] between players.
-In a **location-based mobile game** there exists the possibility to acquire information just by [[en:patterns:proximity]]. One can watch or listen to other players who are in the [[en:patterns:common_space|same space]]. Information might be accidentally disclosed simply by being near enough to hear a control sound from another player's [[en:patterns:equipment|device]]. The same could happen on purpose as part of a [[en:patterns:bluff|bluff]].
+In a **location-based mobile game** there exists the possibility to acquire information just by [[en:patterns:proximity]]. One can watch or listen to other players who are in the [[en:patterns:common_space|same space]]. Information might be accidentally disclosed simply by being near enough to hear a control sound from another player's [[en:patterns:equipment|device]]. The same could happen on purpose as part of a [[en:patterns:bluff|bluff]]. Players, who are aware that the opponents can watch them, act or talk in a way that misleads the opponents.
 Players can use their [[en:patterns:equipment|game related smartphones]] or their personal phones to coordinate and exchange information, extending or overriding channels of information offered by the game.