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The 12 pages that link to Emergent gameplay, each with the reason it gives.

• Game mechanicsRelated: Simple mechanics can combine to produce outcomes their designers did not specify.

• Procedural generationRelated: Generated settings can combine with systemic rules to produce unplanned situations.

• Game designRelated: System interactions can create experiences designers did not script directly.

• Player agencyRelated: System interactions can give players influence beyond authored choice points.

• Open-world gameRelated: Interacting systems can produce experiences beyond authored missions.

• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the WildRelated: Combining physics, fire, weather, and enemies creates unscripted solutions.

• Artificial intelligence in video gamesCompared with: Designed AI behavior can create outcomes no developer explicitly scripted.

• Sandbox gameRelated: Sandbox rules can combine into situations designers did not script.

• Sid MeierRelated: Civilization’s memorable histories emerge from interacting systems rather than scripted plots.

• Game (play)Related: Simple rules can combine into outcomes designers did not explicitly script.

• GameplayRelated: System interactions can produce play beyond explicitly scripted events.

• Video game designCompared with: It contrasts designed sequences with outcomes players create through system interactions.