Are any of you familiar with a game (online or off) known variously as mafia, werewolf and village? I've been playing it on another forum since the start of this year and have wondered on and off for a few months whether I could adapt it for the SB.
In extremely basic terms, a group of players are divided into two or more teams. Traditionally one large team are innocent, a couple of smaller ones are evil. The identities of the innocent players are known only to themselves, but each evil teammember will know the others on their team (but not know of everyone else who is innocent and who is the second evil team.)
All or most players have some sort of power they can exercise either nightly, or a certain number of times during the game.
Each day all players vote to execute one player. At 'night' various powers can be used - kills and shields of course, but also dreams (where you can find out another players role or alliance) and other funky things.
And that's pretty much it really. Ordinarily the game is heavily reliant on the forum's private message system. Obviously that's not possible here, but I think we could do it easily enough using email (might even set up a dedicated email address for it.)
Basically I'm wondering if there is enough interest for me to put some more serious thought into devising roles, writing puzzles etc.
In terms of commitment, at the very least you need to be on the SB once per day to vote for the execution (although it's normal to allow the occasional day of non-participation, two in a row usually leads to a modkill.) The 'dayscene' and 'nightscene' (posted an hour apart) would be at the same time each day (give or take my reliability ;0) - probably sometime in the European evening. However you don't need to be online at that time at all - most games I've played have had day and nightscenes in the middle of my night. I will admit that in the more complex, involved games on my other forum, it can be a major timesuck. But I'm intending to make this game a fairly simple one, closer to the classic style of the game.
So is anybody interested?
Equally, would anybody hugely object to this taking place? Ordinarily it's possible to just confine it to one thread, but I think here we'd want one new thread a day. Or perhaps just one super thread with me starting a new subthread each day, and starting a second superthread when it's slipping too far down the board or getting too unwieldy. Hmm...
I'm including a link to the 'werewiki' and the wikipedia article on the game:
http://randomness.talonz.com/werewiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_%28game%29
