Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games
Enemy NPC design patterns in shooter games
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Design Patterns in Games
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With the increasing complexity of interactive games, the need for a common vocabulary to describe patterns grows. Action-oriented games focus heavily on players using weapons, but categorizations used for weapons are borrowed from real-world patterns, classifying them according to the physical inner-workings of the weapons rather than their gameplay effects. This terminology draws lines between similar weapons that elicit similar gameplay and creates unnecessary distinctions between fictional and non-fictional weapons. We aim to classify weapons in a way that defines weapons by the gameplay behaviors they elicit using a language of common weapon design patterns. This paper expands the taxonomy of game design patterns to better describe how weapons can be used to influence gameplay. These patterns act as a language for communicating game design concepts.