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

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====== Player differentiation, player roles ======
This pattern lets players be differentiated from each other.

Players can be differentiated in various ways:
  * **symmetrically**, where players have abilities and roles that are complimentary to each other. A widely used pattern is paper-scissors-stone. Players might have to combine their abilities in order to overcome a {{tagpage>challenge}} or solve a [[en:patterns|challenge]].
  * **non symmetrically**, where some of the players or participants have a special role, e.g. games with a [[en:patterns:moderator|moderator]] or games where there is a leader in the [[en:patterns:team_forming|teams]].
 
Another **differentiation** might be on the basis of the [[en:patterns:information_awareness|information awareness]] pattern. For example, players who have access to special information may use that against opponents who have an advantage in numbers.

Other ways of providing **differentiation** are:
  * [[en:patterns:tool|Game tools]], e.g. a player might have a specialized radar or a scanner to find out the positions of opponents.
  * [[en:patterns:equipment|Equipment]], e.g. some members of a [[en:patterns:team_forming|team]] might have a tablet while others take the role of a scout or messenger.
  * Players might be provided with different 
    * [[en:patterns:player_goals|goals]], or
    * starting conditions, or
    * [en:patterns:information_awareness|information]]

**Player differentiation** might be supported by or lead to the emergence of a [[en:patterns:narrative|narrative]] background.

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=== Related patterns ===

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=== Related heuristics ===
[[en:heuristics:heuristics#3.2]]

[[en:heuristics:heuristics#5.1]]

[[en:heuristics:heuristics#5.2]]

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