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 of events
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.