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

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====== Competition for limited resources ======
Players compete for resources.

Instead of direct [[en:patterns:competition|competition]] as for example in a race, **competition for limited resources** creates pressure over a sparse resource. **Competition for limited resources** lets [[en:patterns:strategy|strategic behaviours]] emerge. If the resources are spread in physical space, players might try to physically [[en:patterns:obstruction|obstruct]] their opponents from accessing a resource.

Limited resources might be the available points in a system of [[en:patterns:score|scoring]] or some [[en:patterns:digital_object|digital objects]] for which the players need to [[en:patterns:explore|explore]] the space and [[en:patterns:collecting|collect]] them.

**Competition for limited resources** can be combined with [[en:patterns:economic_transactions|economic transactions]], e.g. trade or exchanges, or [[en:patterns:stealing|stealing]] or [[en:patterns:sabotage|sabotage]] patterns.

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===Example===

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=== Related patterns ===
[[en:patterns:competition|competition]]
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=== Related heuristics ===
[[en:heuristics:heuristics#2.9]]

[[en:heuristics:heuristics#3.7]]

[[en:heuristics:heuristics#5.3]]

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