Competition

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This pattern is about competition between players or teams of players. Competition might be used as a strong pattern or weak pattern.

Competition might be implemented between single players, or between teams of players or a mix of the two.

Competition as a weak pattern allows players to decide whether and how to compete during the game on the basis of some strategy they have devised. The possibility of competition or cooperation might also be just implied by the use of another pattern such as the balance_cooperation_and_competition pattern or any of the interaction between players patterns.

In a simple and effective form, competition could take the archetypical form of a race. Two or more competitors, who might be teams, try to reach the same location (used in street_games. The race pattern could be accompanied by by roles (e.g. cops and robbers).

Competition is related with the achievement of a specific goal, like meeting the ending_condition first, or reaching the highest score.