I’m working on a new mechanic in my head and I am trying to figure out what theme would be more fun & interesting. The very basic idea a self-contained single elimination tournament that has 16 entries. That means a quick 5 round game. For a 4 player game each player would get 4 entries into the tournament. The object is to be the only player with entries left.
The main question I have for this post is theme, I thought of a couple I like but Im not sure what to go with.
1.College Sports:
With this one I would make up 16 College team Mascots ( TigerSharks, Knights, Pumas ect.) each College would have stats for their Football, Basketball, Baseball & Soccer teams
Tigersharks: Football-4, Basketball-2, Baseball-1, Soccer-3
Knights: Football-2, Basketball-3, Baseball-2, Soccer-1
So let’s say in round 1, your TigerSharks are playing against your opponents Knights. Its your turn to schedule a match, so based on the stats you decide to pick Soccer because your school is better at soccer than your opponents which makes it more likely for you to win this round and eliminate one of your opponents schools.
2.Chick Fights
The theme with this one is that I would create 16 female fighters/wrestlers, think campy like Dead or Alive or Street Fighter or something. I’m thinking very lighthearted. Each fighter would have stats in something like Foxy Boxing, Pillow Fighting, Mud Wrestling, Street Brawling. Then using the same example above you would want to try and gain the advantage over your opponent by scheduling the proper match.
This could also be a mix of guy and girl characters and maybe I take more of a Pro Wrestling approach with something like Regular Match, Cage Match, ect.
Im actually leaning towards that one myself. I feel like in order to make up for the fact that I need to make up my own School mascots and cant use real ones, that it might be fun to get a little more out there with them, like the Ancient University Pharoahs and the Brainford College Zombies.
Doing more fantasy sounding teams like that might help the appeal for non USA players, I could eaisly take it more seriously and just make them all based in actual cities.