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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. https://www.blankmediagames.com/
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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",…
This is neat, but I still wonder where people get the time to play games like this.
As 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.
I'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 wonder why it's written in PHP. Seems like an odd choice.
It's what I'm most familiar with and I didn't want to spend a lot of time building it. There is a great Slack RTM client written with ReactPHP ( http://reactphp.org/ ) that I took advantage of.
I built https://github.com/sander/lunacy for a similar purpose (CouchDB + Node + AngularJS). After a few months it did become a bit boring, I think mainly because the stakes are lower when dropping out of a game doesn’t actually mean having to sit and watch others continue to play live (you can just quit the app), and because the lack of facial expressions that can give away roles.