A single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of ⚽️ the gaming session. A single-player game is usually a game that can only be played by one person, while "single-player ⚽️ mode" is usually a game mode designed to be played by a single player, though the game also contains multi-player ⚽️ modes.[1]
The reason for this, according to Raph Koster, is down to a combination of several factors: increasingly sophisticated computers and ⚽️ interfaces that enabled asymmetric gameplay, cooperative gameplay and story delivery within a gaming framework, coupled with the fact that the ⚽️ majority of early games players had introverted personality types (according to the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator).[4]
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While a multi-player game relies upon human-human interaction for its conflict, and often for its sense of camaraderie, ⚽️ a single-player game must build these things artificially. As such, single-player games require deeper characterisation of their non-player characters in ⚽️ order to create connections between the player and the sympathetic characters and to develop deeper antipathy towards the game's antagonists. ⚽️ This is typically true of role-playing games (RPGs), such as Dragon Quest and the Final Fantasy, which are primarily character-driven ⚽️ and have a different setting.