Rules of Maze of MURDERS

You probably won't need to read these rules. The game is designed so that players can easily jump in head-first and figure it out as they go.

You can come back to the rules if you really want to understand how some detail or other works.

New game creation

• A new game is created every 7 days
• 1 entrance is randomly placed, where all players start
• 5 food rations (turnips) are randomly scattered around the maze
• 10 treasures are randomly scattered around the maze

Initial inventory

Each player starts with

• 3 turnips
• 2 wall kits
• a map
• a compass
• a knife

Survival

• Players must eat 1 turnip per day--death occurs after 24 hours of last meal
• Player characters drift off to sleep after 5 minutes of inactivity
• Sleeping players can be effortlessly murdered if the murderer is posession of a knife
• Dead bodies remain in the maze
• Dead or sleeping players can be robbed

Wall-kits

• Players can construct a wall kit any time there is an open space in front of them
• When a wall-kit is built, the logo of the Frobozz Magic Wall-Kit Company is visible from the side which it was constructed, distinguishing it from a normal wall
• Players cannot pass through constructed wall-kits
• A search of (or an attempt to write onto) a constructed wall-kit will identify it on the searcher's side by showing a visible logo to that side
• When a wall-kit is known by a visible logo, it can be torn down
• Once a wall-kit has been torn down, the kit is destroyed and cannot be used again

Map and compass

• A player's map shows them what they've explored so far, as well as the location of any treasures, bodies, turnips, and fake walls they've discovered
• If a player loots another's map, the knowledge of that map is added to their own (a player never has more than one map)
• If a player's map is stolen, it's gone; a new one won't be drawn (unless the player gets another map by looting someone else's)
• If a player's compass is stolen they will not be informed what direction they're facing

Writing onto walls

• A knife is required to scratch into a wall
• Any text can be scratched into any normal wall; players cannot scratch onto constructed wall-kits
• An attempt to scratch into a constructed wall-kit identifies itself that it is fake by revealing the logo of the manufacturer

Other rules

• Any players that yells something will be heard by anyone else simultaneously online
• Once a player commits a murder, their eyes will glow red
• Any player may kill a conscious murderer; however, this is considered an execution, not a murder, and will not cause the executioner's eyes to glow red nor be added to the executioner's score
• If the murderer is asleep, on the other hand, killing them is a cold-blooded act and does count as a murder

Scoring

A player's score will be calculated once the maze is exited from where they started, based on their inventory

• 100 points for each treasure
• 50 points for each murder
• 100 points for being of possession of a complete map or 5 points for having an incomplete map
• 5 points for each knife
• 5 points for each compass
• 5 points for each food ration
• 30 points for each wall-kit

Players won't know how well they played against against others until the game ends.

Maze Of MURDERS is programmed by rellwood and is free software. If you'd like a copy of the source code, write me at rellwood@sdf.org. I'd also be happy to receive suggestions, critiques, bug reports, or unadulterated praise.