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

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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.

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 bluff [[en:patterns:bluff|bluff]].

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.

Information might concern the actions of players, their current status (e.g. [[en:patterns:score|score]]), their position in the physical space etc. In the last example information might be regulated by the application of the [[en:patterns:fog_of_war|fog of war]] pattern.

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=== Related patterns ===
[[en:patterns:balance_cooperation_and_competition|balance cooperation and competition]]

[[en:patterns:proximity]]

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=== Related heuristics ===
[[en:heuristics:heuristics#3.7]]

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