Have you tried out The Resistance?
Resistance is one of my favourite games of this type. It's great when you have 2 or 3 really talky people. Kind of falls apart when everyone is quiet though.
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#22Have you tried out The Resistance?
Resistance is one of my favourite games of this type. It's great when you have 2 or 3 really talky people. Kind of falls apart when everyone is quiet though.
Sometimes you have to rally the group to play a second game and then they'll get it.
I've also seen quiet groups completely come around if you act a little more like a moderator and start asking questions. Have everyone say who they are and why. Always ask people why they voted a certain way. Its usually not too hard to get the quiet ones talking.
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#23Very cool! I wonder how the game dynamic changes when people are not required to be in the same room as each other.
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#24I've never heard of this game, maybe a description or link to a wikipedia page[1] in the readme would be good. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)
I've played it as "Mafia" but never as "Werewolf" so thanks for the informed link.
If you enjoy Mafia, check out Town of Salem - a web/desktop based version. Games are quicker than usual Mafia.
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#25Really cool. I built something similar in python for giggles a couple months ago [1]. One day I'll get around to implementing other roles. Honestly the most fun part of it was co-workers hilarious attempts to break the script. ```!vote DROP TABLES```
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#26I've never heard of this game, maybe a description or link to a wikipedia page[1] in the readme would be good. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)
I've played it as "Mafia" but never as "Werewolf" so thanks for the informed link.
here's the werewolf version: http://www.games-wiki.org/wiki/Werewolves_of_Millers_Hollow/
having cards available as reminders of who's alive is very helpful
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#27As I don't use Slack, I'm totally building an IRC version of this. Actually, I'd prefer frontend-agnostic, so I can hook the logic to IRC/matrix/XMPP/websockets.
If you're a rubyist check out Lita[1] which is a ruby bot framework that has many adapters[2] to work with various chat services like IRC, slack, etc...
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#28This is neat, but I still wonder where people get the time to play games like this.
My coworker and I happen to have a very strict One Slime schedule. Even slack bot knows about it and gets excited
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#29I've never heard of this game, maybe a description or link to a wikipedia page[1] in the readme would be good. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)
And there is this great story in Wired on the history and popularity of this game, especially at tech conferences: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2010/03/features/wer...
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#30I've never heard of this game, maybe a description or link to a wikipedia page[1] in the readme would be good. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)
And there is this great story in Wired on the history and popularity of this game, especially at tech conferences: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2010/03/features/wer...
Once I attended a math olympiad training camp, and was told a story explaining why we were not allowed to play "Mafia":
The previous year, students had arranged a real-time version of the game, so that, each night, the mafia would vote and eventually someone would go knock on the victim's door. At some point, a maid found a piece of paper in someone's dorm, listing a "God", the names of people who had been "killed", who was to be killed that night, etc. The police were called.
The matter was eventually cleared up, but from then on, the camp imposed a strict policy of no "Mafia". People were free to play equivalent games, as long as the vocabulary of the game was not something that could conceivably lead to a repeat incident.