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Ending condition
A condition for ending the game.
There might be an explicitly stated ending condition, which, in games of competition, might lead to a win, a loss, or a draw. Other games might be open-ended, e.g. Geocaching.
In games where players have different roles, there might exist different ending conditions for each role.
Ending conditions may vary and they may be combined. Some suggestions are
- the achievement of a goal score
- the exhaustion of a limited resource, e.g. digital objects, maybe in multiplayer games with competition for limited resources
- the exhaustion of available time, which could lead to temporal structure in the game
- the elimination of opponents from the game
- the locating of a digital object
- other triggers
The ending condition might be known to players, in which case it is their final game goal. Awareness of the ending condition leads to the formulation of strategies.