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[ocs] OK here's a worldbuilding brainstorm for something I accidentally wrote myself into needing an answer for, but maybe it's a fun one
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Suppose a hyper-advanced human civilization, where everyone has a nanomachine ecology in their bloodstream that generates a programmable energy field in and around them
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you can use this to peruse computer networks with mental commands, augment your senses with nanofield-retrieved information
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all kinds of cool shit like tht
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so the question is
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what kind of party games would this tech enable
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izzy.vrm
i can only imagine the way jackbox thrives in this scenario
magnet
there's gotta be some kind of new nanofield-enabled iteration of the classic Mafia/Werewolf/Amogus style hidden-roles traitor game for one
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oh god yeah nanofield jackbox
izzy.vrm
OH
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KEEP TALKING AND NOBODY EXPLODES but with tactile feedback
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not with actual explosions tho
magnet
stuff that is to Jackbox what Jackbox is to, like, Charades & Pictionary
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can the nanofield (consensually) restrict a user's senses? that could be used for punishment-game effects especially if it's the spicy type of party games
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Mafia but if you die in the game you die in real life because the hackers got you
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Magnet and I are two sides of the same coin
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I'm sure it can restrict senses
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Oh I know what would be neat, some sorta monster battling thing
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Where you create your own OC monster out of downloadable parts
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I'm trying to think on how you use this to iterate on mafia
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And then have the hologram monsters duke it out on top of a pizza box
izzy.vrm
oh yeah, it'd make tcgs wild
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I am freely ripping this direct from Garth Nix's magical rainbow tower series because it always seemed like a super rad background detail
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Game where it edits two people out from each other's senses
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you could have something where everyone at the party has different information about each other (and they may or may not have all the information about themselves, depending on the type of game) with nanofield AR helping track game info.
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And they have to accomplish something by communicating with a third person
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Like one version would be that thing where you have a card with a role on it and you have to guess your own role based on everyone except you treating you as that character, but it could be more complex with nanofield AR displays
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I'd play most of these
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beer pong but with nanofield targeting systems for trick shots
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oh that might be good
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Mario Party Nano
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for mafia iteration maybe think of One Night Ultimate Werewolf and then extend it to be more complicated with more roles since everyone has nanofield brain AR
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assisted beer pong shows you what shots are possible and you're drunk enough to think you can actually make that shot
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I don't know what that is
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maybe a mafia iteration where instead of just one predefined role you can get a whole set of, like, traits
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much like how the One Night Ultimate Werewolf makes the large set of roles more manageable, the nanofield could make that manageable
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*the ONUW app
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what is one night ultimate werewolf
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Werewolf but faster and with lots of weird roles, there's a companion app that helps manage it by basically reading out the GM instructions
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so my idea related to that is essentially with more information assistive tech you can take the pace and complexity another few steps farther
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right
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combine it with something like an AR version of Spaceteam and you could have in-person modded amogus
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One obvious realm is pseudo hologram fields for tabletop games