[Rsgames-beta] Reminder: Please test Werewolf, our new game!

[Victoria Francis]

I'm sorry. I should be more careful next time before saying I heard
something I didn't. It turns out I didn't hear the cheering sound when
losing. Sorry Jason. The game is great, and I don't see any challenges
or bugs in it.

On 12/16/19, Victoria Francis <victoriafrancis3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone! :)
>
> Jason, thanks so much for coding this game! It's fun. I have tried it
> out with bots. I haven't gotten to play with real players yet. If
> anyone on this list would like to play with me tomorrow evening
> anytime after 5 PM Eastern, or even now, we can arrange that. So far,
> I have played with five bots. I find the game very easy to understand.
> Even I can follow it, which says something. Thanks Jason for choosing
> a simple but fun game that's unique to RS Games style!
>
> I'm wondering Jason if we would be able to have a different sound for
> if someone wins and if someone loses? I think right now, it is
> cheering regardless. It doesn't matter, but I'm just wondering if
> that's possible. When I was a wearwolf and lost, I heard a cheer, and
> when I was the protector and I won, I also heard the same sound.
>
> Thanks for all your hard work!
>
> Victoria
>
> On 12/16/19, Jayson Smith <jaybird at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I seem to have this fixed. It wasn't actually affecting gameplay, but
>> was just annoying.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jayson
>>
>> On 12/15/2019 6:40 PM, Caroline Toews wrote:
>>> Okay, here's the full transcript.
>>>
>>> Caroline
>>>
>>> Below is the transcript for a Werewolf game started on Sun Dec 15
>>> 16:48:59
>>> 2019 CST
>>>
>>> Game created by kittytech.
>>> kittytech has added bot Kaylee.
>>> kittytech has added bot Victorina.
>>> kittytech has added bot Maurice.
>>> kittytech has added bot Meaghan.
>>> kittytech has added bot bren.
>>> kittytech has added bot Charlie.
>>> The Game is starting.
>>> Our village consists of two werewolves, a seer, a protector, and three
>>> villagers.
>>> It's nighttime--everyone, close your eyes.
>>> Werewolves, open your eyes.
>>> Werewolves, pick someone to kill.
>>> Werewolves, close your eyes.
>>> Seer, open your eyes.
>>> Seer, pick someone to ask about.
>>> Seer, close your eyes.
>>> Protector, open your eyes.
>>> Protector, pick someone to protect.
>>> Protector, close your eyes.
>>> Everyone, open your eyes--it's daytime.
>>> Everyone, please excuse me, but this game is now in a state I don't
>>> recognize. *** BUG!!! *** Maurice has been torn apart by werewolves!
>>> Talk among yourselves and vote on whom to lynch. Once a majority is
>>> reached, the game will resume.
>>> Victorina votes to lynch bren.
>>> Charlie votes to lynch bren.
>>> Meaghan votes to lynch bren.
>>> Kaylee votes to lynch bren.
>>> It is decided! Bren is to be lynched!
>>> Postmortem tests indicate Bren was not a werewolf.
>>> It's nighttime--everyone, close your eyes.
>>> Werewolves, open your eyes.
>>> Werewolves, pick someone to kill.
>>> Werewolves, close your eyes.
>>> Seer, open your eyes.
>>> Seer, pick someone to ask about.
>>> Seer, close your eyes.
>>> Protector, open your eyes.
>>> Protector, pick someone to protect.
>>> Protector, close your eyes.
>>> Everyone, please excuse me, but this game is now in a state I don't
>>> recognize. *** BUG!!! *** Everyone, open your eyes--it's daytime.
>>> Nobody died last night!
>>> Talk among yourselves and vote on whom to lynch. Once a majority is
>>> reached, the game will resume.
>>> Victorina votes to lynch Meaghan.
>>> Kaylee votes to lynch Meaghan.
>>> Meaghan votes to lynch Charlie.
>>> Charlie votes to lynch Meaghan.
>>> It is decided! Meaghan is to be lynched!
>>> Post-mortem tests indicate Meaghan was a werewolf!
>>> It's nighttime--everyone, close your eyes.
>>> Werewolves, open your eyes.
>>> Werewolves, pick someone to kill.
>>> Werewolves, close your eyes.
>>> Seer, open your eyes.
>>> Seer, pick someone to ask about.
>>> Seer, close your eyes.
>>> Protector, open your eyes.
>>> Protector, pick someone to protect.
>>> Protector, close your eyes.
>>> Everyone, open your eyes--it's daytime.
>>> Kittytech has been torn apart by a werewolf!
>>> Talk among yourselves and vote on whom to lynch. Once a majority is
>>> reached, the game will resume.
>>> Kaylee votes to lynch Victorina.
>>> Victorina votes to lynch Kaylee.
>>> Charlie votes to lynch Kaylee.
>>> It is decided! Kaylee is to be lynched!
>>> Postmortem tests indicate Kaylee was not a werewolf.
>>> There are as many werewolves as there are villagers.
>>> The werewolf slaughters the remaining villager before nightfall.
>>> The werewolves have won!
>>> Victorina and Meaghan were the werewolves.
>>> kittytech was the seer, and Kaylee was the protector.
>>> The game will terminate in thirty seconds.
>>> kittytech has left the game.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Rsgames-beta <rsgames-beta-bounces at bluegrasspals.com> On Behalf Of
>>> Jayson Smith
>>> Sent: December 15, 2019 5:04 PM
>>> To: rsgames-beta at bluegrasspals.com
>>> Subject: Re: [Rsgames-beta] Reminder: Please test Werewolf, our new
>>> game!
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Please send the transcript. I put that message in there specifically to
>>> identify situations where the game was in a state other than the one
>>> expected at that time. I don't know if there'll be any clues in the
>>> transcript, but I can certainly look at it.
>>>
>>> Jayson
>>>
>>> On 12/15/2019 5:55 PM, Caroline Toews wrote:
>>>> Hi. Okay, I wasn't seeing the game at first, but now it's showing up.
>>>>
>>>> In any case, while playing, I received this message twice when it
>>>> switched from night to day: " Everyone, please excuse me, but this game
>>>> is now in a state I don't recognize. *** BUG!!! *** Everyone, open your
>>>> eyes--it's daytime." I can send the entire transcript if that would be
>>>> helpful.
>>>>
>>>> Caroline
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Rsgames-beta <rsgames-beta-bounces at bluegrasspals.com> On Behalf
>>>> Of Jayson Smith
>>>> Sent: December 15, 2019 4:24 PM
>>>> To: rsgames-beta at bluegrasspals.com
>>>> Subject: [Rsgames-beta] Reminder: Please test Werewolf, our new game!
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> This is a reminder that there's a new game, Werewolf, available for
>>>> testing. This one is unlike anything RSGames has done before, and I had
>>>> a
>>>> lot of fun coding it. Draft instructions are at the end of this Email.
>>>>
>>>> Please test as thoroughly as possible since we'll be releasing this on
>>>> Friday. Please let me know your thoughts, comments, bug reports, etc.
>>>> If
>>>> you find a bug, please provide a transcript or the relevant portion
>>>> thereof.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, and have fun!
>>>>
>>>> Jayson
>>>>
>>>> --------------------
>>>>
>>>> Werewolf is a social game. The game takes place in a small village, and
>>>> the players are the villagers. Unfortunately for this village, there
>>>> are
>>>> a few werewolves among the innocent townsfolk, and their goal is to
>>>> wipe
>>>> out as much of the village as they can without being discovered. One of
>>>> the innocent villagers is a seer. This person has the second sight, and
>>>> can detect the taint of lycanthropy. There may also be a protector
>>>> (called a doctor, healer, baner, or wolfsbane carrier in some
>>>> versions),
>>>> an innocent villager who protects one person from werewolf attack each
>>>> night.
>>>>
>>>> The game has alternating night and day phases, starting with night. At
>>>> night, the werewolves pick someone to tear limb from limb (all
>>>> werewolves
>>>> must agree on the same person), the seer picks someone to learn about,
>>>> and the protector picks someone to protect from werewolf attack for
>>>> that
>>>> night. Once night is over, everyone wakes up, the werewolves' victim
>>>> (if
>>>> not protected) is found dead, and day begins.
>>>>
>>>> Day is very simple. The village wants justice for last night's murder,
>>>> and votes to lynch (eliminate) one of their own. Once a majority has
>>>> voted for one person, he or she is dead and out of the game, and the
>>>> remaining villagers find out if they lynched a werewolf or not.
>>>>
>>>> The game then goes back to night. The werewolves or werewolf pick
>>>> someone
>>>> to kill, the seer (if still alive) learns about someone else, the
>>>> protector (if still alive) protects someone, everyone wakes up, someone
>>>> (if not protected) is found dead, and the village gets ready for
>>>> another
>>>> lynching. This continues until the game ends, which can happen in one
>>>> of
>>>> two ways.
>>>>
>>>> The villagers win if they kill all the werewolves. The werewolves win
>>>> if enough villagers have been killed (by werewolf actions and village
>>>> lynches) that the numbers of villagers and werewolves are equal. At
>>>> that
>>>> point, the werewolves rise up and openly slaughter the remaining
>>>> villagers. For scoreboard purposes, each player wins if his team
>>>> (werewolves or villagers) wins, even if he's not alive at the end.
>>>>
>>>> The proper strategy depends on each player's role in the game. The
>>>> werewolves want to stay hidden but kill as many innocent villagers as
>>>> they can. During the day, they will almost certainly use misdirection
>>>> and
>>>> barefaced lies to throw suspicion on other villagers.
>>>>
>>>> The seer wants to stay alive as long as possible so he can learn as
>>>> much
>>>> as possible, but without revealing himself to be the seer because if he
>>>> does, the werewolves will almost certainly try to kill him that night.
>>>> At the same time, he wants to throw suspicion on any werewolves he
>>>> discovers.
>>>>
>>>> The seer, of course, can reveal himself to be the seer at any time,
>>>> especially if he thinks he's about to be lynched, in order to share his
>>>> knowledge. Of course a werewolf could also claim to be the seer and
>>>> reveal anything he wants.
>>>>
>>>> The protector, like the seer, wants to stay alive as long as possible
>>>> without revealing himself to be the protector. If he's ever in a
>>>> situation where he thinks he knows who the seer is, he will probably
>>>> protect that person at night, which of course leaves the protector wide
>>>> open to werewolf attack.
>>>>
>>>> The protector should ideally never reveal himself to be the protector,
>>>> except possibly in a last-ditch effort to avoid being lynched. If it
>>>> comes to that, and he thinks he knows who the seer is, he should then
>>>> alternate randomly between protecting himself and that person at night.
>>>> Of course a werewolf could also claim to be the protector for similar
>>>> reasons.
>>>>
>>>> The other villagers are just trying to figure out who the werewolves
>>>> are.
>>>> The only information they have, however, is what others say and who
>>>> dies.
>>>>
>>>> There are no restrictions on speech during the day. Any living player
>>>> can
>>>> say anything he wants—truth, misdirection, nonsense, or barefaced lie.
>>>> Dead players, on the other hand, may not speak at all, not even to
>>>> correct a matter of record. If someone is about to be lynched and wants
>>>> to say something like revealing the seer's visions, they have to say it
>>>> before the vote goes through. Likewise, as soon as someone is found
>>>> murdered at daybreak, they are dead and out of the game, and may not
>>>> speak. Also, nobody may talk at night.
>>>>
>>>> More information about this game can be found at the following website:
>>>> http://www.eblong.com/zarf/werewolf.html
>>>>
>>>> Note that Zarf's page assumes a face-to-face game, where the moderator
>>>> is
>>>> one of the players. In this version, the moderator functions are
>>>> performed by the game itself. Since that page counts the moderator as a
>>>> player, its suggestions about odd versus even numbers of players, when
>>>> to
>>>> add a third werewolf, etc. are off by one in relation to this version.
>>>>
>>>> When a game is created, the game master decides if there will be a
>>>> protector, and if the roles of dead villagers are revealed. If reveal
>>>> is
>>>> turned on, every time someone dies, their exact role (werewolf, seer,
>>>> protector, villager) is revealed to the rest of the players. If not,
>>>> only
>>>> their status (werewolf or not a werewolf) is revealed. The werewolves,
>>>> seer, and protector are all revealed at the end of the game.
>>>>
>>>> Bots can participate in Werewolf, although the game is much more fun if
>>>> most or all of the players are humans. Bots have a strategy to play the
>>>> game, but they never say anything during the day, so they can't throw
>>>> suspicion on others nor defend themselves if accused.
>>>>
>>>> When the game begins, the number of werewolves is calculated based on
>>>> the
>>>> number of players. If there are fewer than six players, one werewolf is
>>>> used. If between six and fifteen players, two werewolves, and if
>>>> sixteen
>>>> or more players, three werewolves. Once that is decided, each player is
>>>> randomly assigned a role and told what it is, then the first night
>>>> starts.
>>>>
>>>> Once the game is underway, each role (werewolves, seer, protector) is
>>>> prompted to open their eyes and pick someone to kill, identify, or
>>>> protect. If you hold one of these special roles, when it's your turn,
>>>> press Enter to open a menu from which you can choose a player. Enter is
>>>> also used for voting during the day.
>>>>
>>>> If villager roles are not being revealed when they die, the game will
>>>> ask
>>>> the seer and protector (if enabled) to open their eyes, pick someone,
>>>> and
>>>> close their eyes, even if these players are already dead.
>>>> This is because in this situation, nobody knows these people are dead,
>>>> so
>>>> the game keeps up the pretense, delaying for a random amount of time in
>>>> order to fake these roles.
>>>>
>>>> Bots, if present, will use the following strategy in order to keep the
>>>> game moving.
>>>>
>>>> A bot werewolf, if he's the only werewolf, will choose someone at
>>>> random
>>>> to kill. If there are other werewolves but none have chosen yet, he
>>>> will
>>>> choose a random villager. Since the werewolves know who each other are,
>>>> he will never pick another werewolf. If he's not the first to choose,
>>>> he
>>>> will choose a random player from those other werewolves have chosen
>>>> that
>>>> night. This insures that even if all the werewolves are bots, they will
>>>> come to an agreement on a single player to kill.
>>>>
>>>> A bot seer will choose someone he hasn't learned about yet. What he
>>>> learns is stored so he can use that information during the day.
>>>>
>>>> A bot protector will protect a random player.
>>>>
>>>> During the day, a seer bot will always vote for a werewolf he's
>>>> identified, and failing that, never vote for someone he knows to be
>>>> innocent. All other bots will vote for a random person who has received
>>>> at least one vote already, and if nobody has voted yet, they will vote
>>>> for someone at random. This usually results in many bots ganging up on
>>>> one or two players until a majority is reached, which is another reason
>>>> it's better to have more humans than bots. Note that bots look at the
>>>> status of the game and take action periodically, so even in a game with
>>>> no living human players, if the first flood of daytime votes doesn't
>>>> result in a majority, the bots will eventually reach an agreement.
>>>>
>>>> The keyboard commands are very simple. Enter opens a menu where you can
>>>> choose a player for the appropriate task given your role, or vote for
>>>> someone during the day. T will tell you the current state of the game,
>>>> which equates to whose turn it is. During the day, V will list players,
>>>> who they've voted for, and how many votes they have. Players who
>>>> haven't
>>>> yet voted and have no votes aren't listed. R will tell you your role,
>>>> in
>>>> case you missed it when the game was starting.
>>>>
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