Theme Test Market

[Twistedspoon]

Here's a brief description of a couple of Ideas I had last night for theme games:

Parasite mafia:
Same premise of mafia vs Townies but the introduction of a new 3rd Party player Called the parasite. The parasite chooses a host player before the game starts and during every night phase. The host player then dies during the following night phase and the parasite moves onto its next host. The parasite cannot be lynched directly, but can only be killed via. the mafia or when the host player is lynched. The parasite wins when it equals the number of remaining players, similar to the mafia's win condition .

Baton mafia:
Same premise of mafia Vs townies, but the mafia also win should they claim the 2 batons from the townies. At the start of the game 2 batons will be randomly distributed amongst the townies and during each night the townies must choose another player to pass their baton onto. Should a mafia player be given a baton, then the mafia claim the baton. Should the mafia target a baton-holding townie then they claim the baton. Also, should a player holding a baton be lynched, then the mafia gain possession of the baton. Townie roles could include an extra baton creator for every 2 night phases he survives and other roles such as a sticky townie who keeps possession of a baton once it is passed to him.

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^well it cannot be killed directly, so It's survival rate would be higher than most. Also lynches, mafia killings and parasite kills would increase the death rate

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what would the consequences of 'taking them over' be? Role/vote manipulation?

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interesting flavour.
I'd play

if I could be David Bowie

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Chrono trigger mafia anyone?

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I'm currently working¹ on We Will Rock You Mafia (which will be a Mini Theme). For those who don't know, it's a musical based on the songs by Queen (fairly negative reviews by critcs tbh, but I loved it) - so that'd make the game a game based on a musical based on the songs of a band.

¹I have just thought of the idea²

²I lie. I stole it from somebody (with permission)

what is this i don't even-

Firstly with sufficient interest I will be modding this game with hoppster. I'm fine with him being the prime mod, but he could have mentioned it was my idea at least

so yeah, he does have my permisssion to mod it with myself. He forgot to mention that
probably be a mini-theme game, yes hoppster?

so yeah, declare your interest or pre-in. Probably be a while off yet since we have no modding experience already, but that means more time to make it the best we will rock you mafia EVAR!

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TV tropes mafia

in production among others

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I haven't started yet actually

I just want to see if there would be sufficient interest in one first

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sounds like a Xanatos gambit

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Who will the Big Bads be?

I've set up a QT to discuss this

anyone else wants in on the making of this game PM me

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(I coulda sworn TheLonging was thinking of making this and said someone else had dibs on it though. Hmm. /pre-in for any form of tvtropes mafia regardless)

first I've heard

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Minesweeper mafia

I was thinking about this idea for a while and was wondering if it would be possible to incorporate mineweeper into mafia.
For exaomple a minesweeper grid with player's names could be used and each lynch would be like clicking that square in the grid and the numbers that would come up would indicate the number of adjacent mafioso

would this work?

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Thinking about some kind of "Mafia's Got Talent" or "Mafia Factor/Idol" game where instead of voting for who you want lynched, you vote for who you want to keep in the game. A few ideas on what could be included:

-Player with the most votes gets bulletproof status for one night
-Player with the least votes is lynched OR the bottom two players face off in a 1v1
-Vote tampering roles for the scum?
-Executive Producer Role: can keep someone off the bottom (two), or promote someone to the top of the queue
-Submit a Sob Story to receive a boost in votes?
-(Potentially) People have multiple votes?
-(Potentially) "Votes from a landline cost 15p, votes from a mobile may be considerably more, you can enter for free online at...," with each person having £x to spend on votes at the start, but different types of votes doing different things (online can get hacked easier; mobile are untraceable; landline are just normal votes)
-Bullshit multiple choice competition questions based on in-game events, to receive a prize!
-All previous players appearing in the "Final" for a group performance?

sounds just as slimy as IRL

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@MS: i think it would be broken in essence

scum slip because they know more than townies. When both are cluless what's to make scum slip? How can scum be caught? There'd be no chainsaws, bussing or anything else

what's to separate scum play from town play other than numbers and a secret kill?

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Twisted Odd Man Out

seriously, I know I'm awesome, but you don't have to name all your creations after me.

I appreciate the sentiment though.

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I intend to run a theme game in the future

"Haiku mafia"

where you can only post in haiku form

any interest?

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Glork actually ran a Haiku Mafia: http://www.mafiascum.net/archive/viewtopic.php?t=4745

Then again that was over 4 years ago, so you'd probably be okay.

forget that then

I have high ambitions and If it wasn't groundbreaking then then I doubt It will be now

I like to be original

ty for saving me some embarrassment there