====== Help and support ======
**Help and support** is a {{tagpage>non-pattern}} concerns the support of players or their ability to ask for help.

It can be
  * integrated in the game [[en:patterns:narrative|narrative]] and can be offered by [[en:patterns:non_playing_characters|NPCs]],
  * accessed through the game interface,
  * offered by a human [[en:patterns:moderator|moderator]].

**Help and support** might concern the revealing of a game information, the obtaining of a game [[en:patterns:digital_object|object]] etc. In group games it might support players who are behind so as to [[en:patterns:balance_challenge_and_available_options|balance the level of ability]] of different players.

A [[en:patterns:reward|penalty]] might be accompanying the provision of **Help and support**, for example a drop in [[en:patterns:score|score]]. This is useful in cases were player want to correct a previous mistake. Another option might be to incorporate it in a system of exchange or other kinds of [[en:patterns:economic_transactions|economic transactions]].

This pattern is attractive for **location-based mobile games** are used in a [[en:patterns:learning|learning]] context.

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=== Related patterns ===
[[en:patterns:learning|learning]]

[[en:patterns:moderator|moderator]]

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=== Related heuristics ===
[[en:heuristics:heuristics#2.1]]
[[en:heuristics:heuristics#2.2]]
[[en:heuristics:heuristics#2.5]]

{{tag>playability}}
{{tag>non-pattern}}

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