Week 6

Social Deduction games are games where you must deduce whether your opponents and or allies are telling the truth to you or lying to you. You spend your time throughout the game trying to gather information on others around you without giving up to much on yourself. In the Video "Lying to your friends is FUN" he uses the example of Among Us and how you can go around the map completing objectives and trying to gather information on your peers.  Later in that same video, they talk about how Social deduction games let you use skills that normally would be frowned upon if used in everyday life and put them into an environment where you can have fun with them and challenge yourself and your friends in a safe environment. When picking a social deduction game like Mafia and thinking about how it fits into the six elements you can look at it a see every element is set but can easily be modified depending on the number of people you have playing the game and if you want to add more rules.  For the Games we played in class we changed the roles that we used between rounds to try and mix up how the game was played without causing the game to be completely different from the round before. Each team had a set goal that was not affected by the roles until we decided to add in the Grey cards in which they had their own separate win conditions from the other teams. In the video, they also talked about how Roleplaying can be a big part of these games if players want. When we played it in class though no one really seemed to want to bring that aspect of the game into it. Overall though when we played these games in class they were a lot of fun getting to interact with people I usually do not and try to understand them and get information on who and what team that they were a part of for that round of the game while also keeping my own identity safe from the others.