Hello,
today I'm searching some games which are all about or use assassination in them and what kind of mechanic they use. If you know any pleasa tell me. I think Ninjato is something like this, but I haven't tried it.
My goal is to make a game about assassination, played by cards, being little bit abstract problem-solving-game. The scenery will be at medieval Japan, some Italian city during Renaissance or some modern day big city. What kind of mechanics would you use?
I have worked on a ninja game once and one of the problem is how do you control the targets. If a player control the targets, then your character need to move secretly.
The solution I found at that time is to have an higher level or more adbstract game that does not deal with the details of the assasination too much.
check out this earlier post about a ninja/ assassin game similar to what you're talking about. The post was about some of the problems with creating 3D terrain. You might find some of the comments helpful
good luck!
red hare
Hi Kalmari, that would be remarkably different. I think if the game mechanic is solving a puzzle and some how obtaining clues, I think you have something different and interesting.
I really like the idea of buying/ selling clues... very cool!
Last night, just before falling asleep I came up with this idea of mysterious market place, where information is sold and bought from different kind of mysterious characters. Because in the working phase the scenery of the game is in Renaissance Venice (ooh, how original! I know.) and the working title is now "Murder in Venice" (yes, I'm so imaginative) some of these characters have kind of form already:
* A harlequin, whose information is partly true, partly false (two cards, another one is real information and another is false)
* Silver merchant, who is taking payments only in silver coins (which could be semi-worthless piece of money, but also semi-rare, so you might have to buy it for more expensive price from somewhere or someone)
* A Loanshark, whose information is getting more and more expensive every turn/every time someone buys it
* A doctor, - nothing yet -
* Some others..
Also I came up with an idea of seven mysterious men, who are identical figures in black robes with these Venetian masks in different colours. Every player has a target, which is one of those mysterious men, but player won't know which one. So he have to buy information from the marketplace and sell his own information, to find out his target and murder him before others murder their targets.
Also I'm thinking of merging Clue's envelope into these mysterious men. Every envelope would represent one of the men and contain some info about him. Then every turn some of the info would be placed to market to be sold.
How about this?
I like this idea. If you're tired of the Renaissance Venice theme you could switch it to a seedy sci-fi alien underworld marketplace. Maybe the mysterious men are shape-shifters.
Just a thought. Good luck with your game.
I'm assuming the players would be the assassins. Are the other players ALSO the targets for assassination? Or are the assassination targets not the players but other characters in the game?
Also- I think Renaissance Venice fits the idea perfectly. I'm a sucker for masked lurking in a game (see Intrigo).
You've got a very intriguing game concept going here! One point of play that occurs to me, a la "The Great Dalmuti": all players should be encouraged to play wearing masks, be it simple domino masks or elaborate carnival masks! :-D
I'm concerned, though. If players are potential assassination targets, when an assassination occurs, is the assassinated player out of the game? What if they were NOT the official assassination target? How do players protect *themselves* from assassination?
If you're going to identify the official target through a mechanic rather like that in "Clue", I'd urge you to not have other players be assassination targets. Also, if a player assassinates the WRONG target, maybe they can still keep playing, but any action they take afterward is more expensive, or runs a greater risk, because they're on the run from the law, or from the revenge of the family of the target assassinated, or something like that. Maybe a player who assassinated the wrong target has to miss their next two turns because they're hiding (giving other players a dstinct advantage).
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Thank you for the related topic, it was interesting altough it wasn't excatly what I'm thinking of. My game would be more like a puzzle-game, with some elimination mechanics and money/victory points, played with cards.
Last night, just before falling asleep I came up with this idea of mysterious market place, where information is sold and bought from different kind of mysterious characters. Because in the working phase the scenery of the game is in Renaissance Venice (ooh, how original! I know.) and the working title is now "Murder in Venice" (yes, I'm so imaginative) some of these characters have kind of form already:
* A harlequin, whose information is partly true, partly false (two cards, another one is real information and another is false)
* Silver merchant, who is taking payments only in silver coins (which could be semi-worthless piece of money, but also semi-rare, so you might have to buy it for more expensive price from somewhere or someone)
* A Loanshark, whose information is getting more and more expensive every turn/every time someone buys it
* A doctor, - nothing yet -
* Some others..
Also I came up with an idea of seven mysterious men, who are identical figures in black robes with these Venetian masks in different colours. Every player has a target, which is one of those mysterious men, but player won't know which one. So he have to buy information from the marketplace and sell his own information, to find out his target and murder him before others murder their targets.
Also I'm thinking of merging Clue's envelope into these mysterious men. Every envelope would represent one of the men and contain some info about him. Then every turn some of the info would be placed to market to be sold.
How about this?