Little Max

It's pretty interesting that in social games there are always plenty of advice available and very often people "die" trying the opinions of others! haha~ but if there's one recognized smart catcher always good at catching lies then most of the time people are more willing to listen to him but still... he/she's also more or less guessing so no guarantee! This makes up the largest part of interactions among players. Such interactions emerged probably because of the desire to "kill" off more opponents than otherwise possible. Cuz u could only "kill" the one beside u n u cant do it every round cuz he/she might not lie/look like is lying every round. I'd think that it's not winning the game that contributes to the real fun but the process of how many "liars" you caught cuz u could try to win by not risking any catch until towards the end which will minimize chances of losing unless you got caught for cheating.

*I cant find the sutton smith's reading it seems but i saw others' blogs mention sth abt searcher as one of the roles. pls enlighten where i can find the categorization.*

Mafia

I felt that Mafia was more fun as there were more interactions involved but I was quite impressed with the fact that none of the dead villages cheated by hinting to those alive who were the mafias. (I was the mafia in the 1st play) Those noisiest often got voted out to be killed first (haha!!) which sometimes happened to be right. But well... I was a silent mafia n no one guessed me =p

Those with the most comments were also killed by me right at the start... like Jansen! haha~ scared he'll eventually find out the answer. And people started to suspect and kill each others' team mates oso. Oddly enough... it seemed that people tended to guess the mafias by looking at direction. The person opposite the most group of people killed was usually a suspect.

It also depended on how players convinced each other to vote the same person out n i've stated some of the reasons above. The external relationships affected the gameplay in some way cuz like me usu quiet nobody thought that it was me and so it'd be less suspicious if I agree with some false accusations made by the villages and voted against the innocent too. Some also "accused" the innocent as the mafia cuz they thought he's got sth against me... like erm Jansen n Weiwei if i nvr remember wrongly... It was a pretty easy job as a mafia for me but definitely fun cuz u manage to get away w/o being found out!

In all... it was more fun playing mafia as it involved more interactions among the players, guessing, and concealing your real identity. The modification about letting the dead join the mafia like vampires would definitely be more interesting and more involvement also else the dead villages would be bored. Also, we could also play with letting some turn into vampires (mafia gang) n the rest of the dead remain as just dead but all dead including the vampires start to give their opinions during the vote as risen from the dead knows the real mafia. But there are those who are vampires who will want to conceal the mafia's real identity and there are those who are just dead who'll want to kill the mafia too. Vampires can be chosen during night time so that the villages will not know who are vampires who r just dead villages.

Yes!! finally done with all exercises! having a committment overload this sem... ya overestimated myself n having this spout nonsense disease such that i sometimes say things tt r not relevant/dont make sense eg last fri when giving instructions for playtest of a modified ver of hot potato... -_-" haha~ so embarrasing... so pls pardon if anyone thinks i'm not talking sense in my blogs...