CherryCokes posted...
From: turbopuns | #014
Question: when building a game from the ground up, what's the basic process? Do you want to make basically the whole set-up of roles and then go and add flavor to it, or start by listing all the characters you might put in the game, and try to build a set of roles from that?
Usually, I'll be playing a game or watching a tv show/movie and my brain will go into mafia mode for a minute and make a connection between a character and a role, and then from there other connections keep springing up, and after a while I'm like halfway to a game. Then I list any character I don't have a firm idea on, put possible roles in the next column, and craft a setup from that.
I've always been the kind of guy who sets up the game by picking the scum characters first, and then working the town from there. Because, I mean, everyone loves to play the villains up a bit. Relatedly, you my not get the flavor, but if host can tell a decent story with it it makes up for any deficiencies. The best game flavorwise I played was CE Pokemafia; the game itself was a fiasco the first two days, but even after getting modkilled for what is now the Dels guide to paraphrasing I enjoyed reading along with the game. Samus did a great job (may he rest in peace).
Also while we're at it, quick note on VC Mafia, because this might actually affect the queue. I'll be in Austria from July 11th to the 24th for a music camp. I will probably not have access to a computer much if at all. So if I'm due up at that time I'll have to be jumped by a game.
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