『Game Information』

[John Dark Souls]

『Mafia Game Code: M is the next game that I will be hosting. The main inspiration for the game's idea is FLAT's VN series Secret Game. (http://vndb.org/v1099) A number of people wake up to find out that they have been kidnapped and brought to some unknown place. Collars filled with explosives have been placed on them along with a PDA that displays a Player Number (playing cards) and a Clear Condition that needs to be completed to win the game. Conditions are all different for each player and some might even contradict other players' Clear Conditions.』

『The game will mostly follow normal MMG Rules but will have some unique elements to it:
Map:
The map is a big 1 square kilometer patch of land in the mountains that is split on a grid to 100 smaller square areas. Going beyond the area limit is possible, but if you do, your collar will go boom.
Players:
All players are humans of equal strength. There will be bonuses and minuses depending on build like small characters can get through some difficult to get through places while guys will be able to move some heavy objects and such. But other than that there is nothing much special to you people. No magic or other shenanigans.
NPCs:
The game will have Non-Player Characters controlled by mastermind. And in some cases they can and will try to hurt players or in worst case even even kill players. Most NPCs are wild animals you will encounter in the area, but they aren't only ones out there. ;p
Revival System:
When normally killed, the player will be revived at the random spot on the map when a certain amount of time passes as long as Clear Condition hasn't been cleared yet. Once completion of Clear Condition is considered impossible, you will be permanently killed.
PDA:
Your PDA is your best (and probably only) friend that you will have in this game. Using it you will be able to confirm Rules, your Player Number, Clear Condition and Map. But there is also 1 important function to it. PDA's Special Function - the function of the PDA that will help you in this cruel game. All players' Special Functions are different and can be both used for utility purposes like "In range of 10 meters displays existence of any unfound Memory Chips." and more offensive like "Able to make the PDA of another player within distance of 10cm from your own PDA uncontrollable.".
Hunger System:
Obviously since you just revive after normally dying, death because of hunger is just meaningless in most cases. But in case of players that have the Clear Conditions of surviving without dying and players that have other clear conditions that will make them want to avoid meeting other players or explore, there will be a hunger system. Hunger system will only kick in if host, me considers it needed. That doesn't mean that I will be using it whenever I want to move players around though. Ultimately finding food around is place is not a difficult task at all.
Time Limit:
There will be a time limit in which all the conditions must be completed. While the time limit will not be announced to players, it will certainly not be smaller than 3 days in-game time. (Unless you all manage to all fail your conditions somehow before that.)
Item Capsules and Memory Chips:
Across the game territory there will be scattered and hidden different Memory Chips. If you find them and input in your PDA, a location of the Item Capsule will be displayed on the map where it is hidden. All Item Capsules will be hidden in places where the chances of finding one without use of Memory Chip is near 0%. Item Capsules will contain all kinds of different Items inside starting from normal tools and ending with weaponry. Every Item Capsule will have at least 1 food item. (more info here)
Puzzles:
There will be puzzles in some of the places but most of the harder puzzles will only be there for nice rewards and won't be needed for solving the mystery. Someone might get a Clear Condition that requires solving the puzzles though. Some puzzles are also required to be solved for one of the endings too.
Trials:
Just like in Season 4 or in Resonance, there will be no mastermind-imposed trials over murders. Clues will still be there and players will still be able to investigate and find murderer themselves. But justice is ultimately in their hands.
Endings:
The game will have 7 Game Ends in which the game can end and 8 Character Ends in which 1 player can end in the game (including simply dying permanently). The Ends are decided by actions of the players within the game. (more info here)』

『I will add other points of the game if people want to know about something in particular or if I remember I forgot something else.』

[The City [EclipseZwolf]]

Just some feedback that come to mind immediately as I read this.

"In range of 2m makes collar of selected player explode.".

Is kinda OP since it just says, you can kill people by walking up to them. In comparison to the other item ability that reveals memory chips, great I solve the plot faster, but is speed going to win the day over instantaneous kills?



The Hunger system like you say is kinda awkward since reviving is a thing, but even if I get weaker its most likely just going to result in me dying and respawning at full strength. I imagine most players wont worry about it unless they are about to go crazy and do big things.



Time Limit is fine, previously there was the hunger system as an superficial time limit and that kinda worked, but you all know how I feel about the hunger system as a time limit. Setting a clock will probably work since most people will just plan around it.



Item capsules are interesting, but..... It feels kinda.... redundant. For lack of better term

Basically I find a chip, then using the chip I find another item. Why not just put the capsule where the chip was? I assume its for RNG Mastermind logic kinda reasons where items handed out are controlled to cause certain things.



Puzzles are nice and an ending requiring puzzles is almost a requirement when its a MURDER MYSTERY. Just dont do what happened in resonance and have a square with like 12 puzzles to choose from to solve. Its difficult and most people just look at one puzzle and go "meh maybe another one" and give up. I also request you avoid what happened in crown and not make puzzles that require a specific player, nothing is harder than getting an AFK player or Saku to come help with something.



Those are the main things that pop out at me when I read it. I like the differing clear conditions, although thinking about it how is murder, trial, and punishment handled if people just revive?

[John Dark Souls]

『For that op PDA function, I just gave examples from the VN I'm basing it on. I don't plan to add something as op as that in the game unless I nerf it considerably. Like into something like maybe "Makes collar of a player within 2m explode in 10 seconds. Upon activation, player collar rings an alert and if they leave the active range before activation, collar doesn't explode."』


『I think of Hunger System mostly for these factors: 1.Someone gets a Clear Condition of "Survive until the game ends.", thus they won't have luxury of just dying and will have to actually bother surviving and don't just hide in one spot and sit there until the end. 2.Lets say someone hides for some other reason in a place from other players and doesn't want to get out. This way hunger forces them out, while will also make their stomach growl from time to time making people around know they are there. 3.Just to cause fights over food.』


『Well, as mentioned above, there will be Clear Conditions like that and game can't really go on forever so obviously there will be a Time Limit.』


『About the Item Capsule thingy. In original VN, there was obviously hunger, and only inside capsules there was food. As to why not just hide capsules directly. Because obviously noticing a capsule with fire axe inside is much easier than to notice a small chip. + someone might get a Clear Condition of "Collect X unused Memory Chips" You don't expect them to get "Collect and carry X metal Item Capsules big enough to hold fire axes in some cases.", right?』


『Just like in Season 4 or in Resonance, there will be no mastermind-imposed trials over murdered. Added this to the first post since its important part~』

[John Dark Souls]

『Information on the first post has been edited.』