Hi developers, and good morning/afternoon/evening to you all!
I come with a question that’s been difficult to answer. I’m working on a game where one player’s goal is to capture everyone while another player tries to find the capturer. You all best know this as a “Murder Mystery” game. However, although I’m using the same concept, I don’t want my game to be based on murder because:
I want my game to be somewhat original.
I don’t like creating games that involve murder. Like, come on, there are 7 year olds playing Roblox.
I want to try something new.
Point is, I want my game to be like a murder game, but not a murder game. For example, instead of killing players, I could freeze them with an ice launcher, and the “sheriff” could have a weapon of some sort that resembled heat to defeat the ice. (I’m considering this option - I thought if this ended up being my theme, I could name my game “The Icing” - but I realized that meant a cake decoration…)
However, every time I try to think of an alternate theme to my game, I end up getting lost in a chain of thoughts that eventually lead me off track or stuck between two choices.
So - my question is: Any suggestions for alternate themes for “Murder Mystery” games?
I hope you guys can help out. Any ideas? To be more original, I will try taking some of your suggestions and changing some elements of it. Thank you guys so much in advance!
Hello! I see you are looking for concepts and an ice involved game came across your mind however, you also spoke about originality. If this is so, I would suggest to move into a different type of game I’m afraid as there is another game exactly with the same concept you seem to be aiming for; here’s a link.\
I have an idea! Players get placed in a house every round. They are confined to a single room, and one room will have the materials to make a destructive weapon. Players get 5 minutes to build a weapon, and 5 minutes to figure out who destroyed the house with it.
Instead of doing weapons like a knife, you could have a player throwing a harmless object, such as a pie to people and an alternative instead of players laying on the floor they could be teleported to an area immediately. The sheriff could be using a potato gun? I don’t really know any alternatives for that. But good luck on whatever you choose!