Sunday, December 7, 2008 . 11:12 PM

I have been playing this little group game on various forums throughout the last three months, on and off due to promos and such. Well, it's very interesting, and I'm pretty much hooked on it and intending to spread out to some friends.

Do refer to this flash...

Here

I'm sure that some people might have played this as a party game and such, but the forum version's a little different. In the live version, I guess it's pretty much more of looking at faces and guilty reactions than analyzing arguments, but in the forums, it's pretty much a different ball game altogether. There is substantial theory published about the game... and it's a great test of argumentative skill, blending into territory, and all sorts of things.

Basically, the game is as follows. There are two groups of people, town and mafia. Mafia know who they are, while townies don't. The aim of the Mafia is to kill enough townies for themselves to form a majority, while that of town is to eliminate all mafia. During the day phase, everyone discusses, with townies trying to confirm themselves and push lynches on who they think is scum by voting, and scum trying to hide. There are various arguments to do this. After a majority of votes is formed, the person is lynched and his identity revealed. Then during the night phase, scum will night kill one of the townies. This goes on, I guess... Of course, there are plenty of variations, but this is the basic game. Ho well... yeah.

Also, I got more music scores. Quite happy with that.