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Exploring
The exploring pattern requires the player to traverse physical space, often interacting with it.
Exploration of a physical space is a simple and powerful pattern. It offers possibilities for combination with other patterns. For example, revealing parts of a map-tool, or finding and collecting a digital object.
Being an activity that is performed in physical space it is a good pattern on which to focus learning. In location-based mobile games this pattern occurs in any case, even implicitly. For a better learning effect it should be incorporated in the game more organically.
Exploration might be conducted cooperatively, or with a time limit. It is a common pattern for games that are adapted from board games.
Successful exploration might trigger an ending condition.