Theme Test Market

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I have a loose idea. A kind of April Fool's Game Mafia game. Which has power roles, but all of them are useless or not very useful.

Examples of roles:

Town Power Roles: Town Crier (every Night Phase they get to submit a message which will contain up to 100 words but cannot mention any player or role in the game, the message will be posted at the start of the following Day), Drunk Cop (every Night Phase they get a random read, which has a 50% accuracy), Voiceless (their votes do not count in the tally), Drunk Texter (they get to send a message to the host every Night Phase, the meaning of it will be reversed, it will be rephrased and then sent to a random player)

Mafia Power Roles: Mafia Cop (a Cop, but aligned with the Mafia), Self-Vigilante (They can only target themselves)

I might put in one town and one mafia role in the game, which will have one shot-only, and, with a bit of luck might actually help them. Thoughts?

I guess that Voiceless is like the modifier

Voteless

. Drunk Cop is like a

50% Random Cop

. Town Crier is like a

Post Restricted Mailman

. Drunk Texter is similar to a

Randomised Mailman

but with added mod-notes. You could add a Mafia Jailkeeper as a joke, if you want.

However, you might want to read this if you plan to run it in the Mini Theme Queue. Though, to run a Mini Theme, you need to have moderated a Open (for which you might want to read this) or a Mini Normal (for which you might want to read this).

But then, you can just convince somebody else to run it for you.

I guess that if you want to advice on this setup, you could make a thread in the Open Setup Discussion subforum and if you want the setup reviewed, you can post in the Open Setup Review thread.

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Been thinking about a Wings of Fire themed game but I’m hoping to have other people’s opinions about it and also for balance purposes (plus trauma since last time I tried designing a game offsite and realized I'm not qualified at all to make mafia games lol). Currently it's just an idea though so any help would be nice.

Cool.
(You could request reviewers if you require them.)

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Would anybody be interested in a Micro Secret Alt Theme game?

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Would anybody be interested in a Micro Secret Alt Theme game?

Are you able to inform the mod if there are players you don't want to play with? Because Secret Alt can result in some clashing otherwise.

Yes.
You can.
WOTC and WOTM would still apply when you PM to sign up.
Sorry for the late reply.

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Would anybody be interested in a xkcd uPick?
(For anybody who doesn't know, xkcd is my favourite webcomic whose tagline is "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language".)

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I seem to remember a game a few years ago where every player were given a a secret alt by the mod, kind of to avoid too much meta talk.

I have had an idea brewing that kind of takes this idea but really turning the volume up.

All signups are secret, only by PM's to the game mod, who assigns a secret alt account to them. The actual player list is not publicly revealed, not yet at least.

Let's say it is a 13p game, at game start a potential player list is revealed of 18p stating that 13 of these 18 Mafia scum players are in this game.

The setup of the game would be fairly normal(daytime lims, night time factional NK and normal town/scum PR's).

But......

The big twist is that if you target a player with any night action you have to guess who, out of the 18 players listed, said player is.

This is where I am I not sure exactly how that would work, since it would be very difficult figuring out who you are targeting, especially in early game. I figured there could be mod hints, either public or private, and various lifelines that can be utilized to try to figure out a players identity.

Anyone think there is some meat to this bone?

I need some smarter setup people to try to mold this ball of clay into something special.......or tell me I am an idiot haha.

I'd be willing to mod this if I get the time.
Though, the setup might need some refinement as pointed out by Alianna.
Also, what Maestro and Gamma said.

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And Gypyx.

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How would people like to play any of the following?

1. A 13p Mini Theme based on the Trojan War, where Trojans are the uninformed majority and Greeks are the informed minority.

2. A Mini Theme set in space that is standardly designed but has certain uPick-like elements inside the game (flavored as an advanced AI that grants inventions based on your imagination)

3. A game where the roles are based on MafiaScum users (for example, the role "Alianna" would be an IC, for obvious reasons)

I would be interested in the first and third.
The second would depend.

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Also what about

4. Epicmafia Sandbox game
Basically a game with Epicmafia roles, 7 town, 3 mafia, 2 third parties, no one is a vanilla townie, probably mega unbalanced but that's the whole point.

I would also be interested in this.

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anybody interested in a game themed after emojis?

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No!

Absolutely not, zero interest!

how about a game themed around wings of fire?

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Never heard of it, but if it has dragons, well I am down for having a nice snack!

every character in the series is a dragon (except for the occasional human).

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random other idea.
would anybody be interested a game themed around legendary & mythological creatures in general (dragons, kraken, phoenix, etc.)?

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it looks like the theme was used a long time ago but seemed limited to european mythology.
(maybe i can try go for a game themed around legendary creatures from all over the world)

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this might be controversial but would anybody be interested in a game themed around political ideologies?

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how about a game themed around ovid's metamorphoses?

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or if i run a dance game?

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my idea for the dance game would be:

• two members of the town will be besties and be informed of each other's identities at the start of the game
  
• each player may propose a pairing of two other players during the pairing phase
  
• a pairing will form if both of those players accept the proposal
  
• there will be an unlimited amount of dance phases, with each ending upon a pair leaving the dance
  
• there will be no intermission but a member of the scum may at any point during the dance phase publicly guess who the two besties are (including guessing deceased players)
  
• if the scum manage to guess the besties, they will instantly win. otherwise, normal wincons apply.
  
• only alignments will flip upon an elimination

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Probably take this to the Open Setup Reviews thread?

that's a good idea.

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i don't know if anybody's heard of this show but would anybody be interested in a game themed around it?
(it's an australian tv show called the inbestigators)