Value Container

Entity value_container

An Entity that stores or exchanges a value: points, money, energy, resources. No one “controls” it, and its main purpose is the value it carries.

Design question – Which values circulate in your game? How should agents collect, spend or lose them?

Reference example – Poker: the chips carry the stakes – nobody controls them, they only change hands. Super Mario: a hundred coins make an extra life. Zelda: the hearts show how much life energy is left.

Dimension profile

• mutability – value_change (the stored value changes)
• persistence – persistent (type-open)
• control – uncontrolled (defining (not controlled))
• visibility – variable (open or concealed (hand/stock))
• ownership – variable (personal, communal or contested)
• mobility – variable (fixed or mobile)
• interactivity – variable (usually an action target)
• value – numeric (defining)

Compatible with

• Affected Unit (ENT-07) – Both uncontrolled; distinguished by value-bearing (value vs. no value).