# Planner Tier **Domain:** Gamification / System architecture **Doc Type:** Developed Wiki Node **Maturity:** Developed **Collection:** [[collections/Gamification|Gamification Collection]] ## Definition The **planner tier** is the role or institutional layer that defines objectives, arena boundaries, missions, scoring, information access, and intervention rules for other participants. ## Significance A planner may be unitary, distributed, adaptive, or absent; using the concept does not prove a hidden designer. ## Sources - [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]] - [Primary or institutional source](https://doi.org/10.1145/2181037.2181040) ## Routes [[wiki/Partially Observable Stochastic Game|Partially Observable Stochastic Game]] · [[wiki/Mission Tasking|Mission Tasking]] · [[wiki/Designed Versus Convergent|Designed Versus Convergent]] · [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]]