The Rules

Two Teams

Mafia and Innocents

Narrator

Explains the game

Assigns roles randomly (via cards)

Describes a scenario

Tells everyone to "go to sleep"

Night Time

Mafia

Mafia open their eyes

Mafia choose someone to kill

Mafia close their eyes

Medic

Medic opens their eyes

Medic choose someone to save

Medic closes their eyes

Cop

Cop open your eyes

Cop choose someone to investigate

Thumbs up if Innocent

Thumbs down if Mafia

Cop close their eyes

Everyone

Wake Up!

Move to Day Time phase

Day Time

Narrator

• Describes who was killed
• ... and whether or not they were saved
• Killed players are out of the game
• Casts a vote for a lynching
• Lynched player is also killed
• Moves to night phase

Victory!

When one team is completely eliminated

And then some

• 30+ Roles
• Multiple teams
• Special victory conditions
  • Eg. "Village Idiot" wins by being lynched

Some Problems...

A big notebook!

Lots of waiting

The narrator has to reconcile all the night actions

Inconsistency

Easy to slip up

...Modernize!

Anything humans can do, computers can do better

MVP

• Single tablet, used by narrator
• 4 roles: Mafia, Cop, Medic, Pleb
• Tablet passed around circle for name/role allocation
• No saving, replay, undo, stats or anything

The Future!

• 50+ roles
• • Maybe even a marketplace for roles
• Stats, replays, high scores
• Narrator optional
  • Each player uses phone and the Internet

And for me...

• Mobile app development
  • Cordova
• Angular 2
• PouchDB
• DDD / CQRS / Event Sourcing in JS
• Frequent prod releases

DDD in TypeScript

Interfaces are great!

When they exist

Workaround:

abstract class

@Injectable()

• Need it everywhere that needs injection, or reflection will be unavailable

Event replay

• Cannot JSON.parse into a class
• TypeScript interfaces are ideal for this!
• No type information in interfaces...
• Each event needs to have a type name field
• Polymorphism isn't supported in TypeScript...
  • Use type name and convention methods
  • Eg. onPlayerKilled(event : PlayerKilled)

Cordova Woes

CrossWalk

Because you can't trust people

Shims/Polyfills

Because you can't trust standards

Thoughts

Questions