✎ en:patterns:competition [Design of location-based mobile games]

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====== Competition ======
This pattern is about competition between players or teams of players. **Competition** might be used as a {{tagpage>strong_pattern&dynamic}} or {{tagpage>weak_pattern&dynamic}}.

It might be implemented between single players, or between [[en:patterns:team_forming|teams of players]] or a mix of the two.

**Competition** as a {{tagpage>weak_pattern&dynamic}} allows players to decide whether and how to compete during the game on the basis of some [[en:patterns:strategy]] they have devised. The possibility of **competition** or [[en:patterns:cooperation]] might also be just implied by the use of another pattern such as the [[en:patterns:balance_cooperation_and_competition|balance cooperation and competition]] pattern or any of the {{tagpage>interaction_between_players&dynamic}} patterns.

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===Example===
In a simple and effective form, **competition** could take the archetypical form of a race. Two or more competitors, who might be [[en:patterns:team_forming|teams]], try to reach the same [[en:patterns:spatial_structure|location]] (commonly used in [[en:patterns:street_games|street games]]). The race pattern could be accompanied by player [[en:patterns:player_differentiation|roles]] (e.g. cops and robbers).

Competition is related with the achievement of a specific [[en:patterns:player_goals|goal]], like meeting the [[en:patterns:ending_condition|ending condition]] first, or achieving highest [[en:patterns:score]] first.

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===Related patterns===
  * [[en:patterns:cooperation|cooperation]] between players
  * [[en:patterns:information_awareness|information awareness]] regarding activities of other players
  * [[en:patterns:team_forming|team forming]]

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=== Related heuristics ===
  * [[en:heuristics:heuristics#3.4]]
  * [[en:heuristics:heuristics#3.7]]
  * [[en:heuristics:heuristics#4.4]]
  * [[en:heuristics:heuristics#5.1]]
  * [[en:heuristics:heuristics#5.3]]
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