Mafia Software - Is There Any?

[Telamon]

I've recently become interested in the intersection of the real life, played in person, game of mafia and computers. As I have mentioned in previous posts, I am writing a mafia simulator. I was wondering, does anyone know of any other mafia-related software out there?

I've Googled for things, but mafia has a very general name and it's very hard to get good results.

I was just wondering if anyone had come across anything.

My friend and I were tossing around the idea of building an online mafia game with 3d avatars (for gesturing and things like that), as a kind of mixed-media project for school. Does anyone know of an existing project that does this?

Another interest I have is developing a formal language for describing different special roles in mafia. With such a language one could write an extendable computer simulation that would be able to reason out the optimal strategy to try in any situation. This is an esoteric problem, but one that any well writen automated-moderator type program would have had to have solved. So if anyone knows of a program like that, I'd love to hear about it.

I haven't been able to find any mafia-related software at all .

[Malaprop]

I've played with making some and posted it because it came up in the game. http://malaprop.netflint.net It's OK so far, not yet sure how much I like it.

[mathcam]

My friend and I were tossing around the idea of building an online mafia game with 3d avatars (for gesturing and things like that), as a kind of mixed-media project for school. Does anyone know of an existing project that does this?

Definitely not. I'd be an eager volunteer for play-tester if you'd like, though.

Cam

[shadyforce]

Me too.

[Norinel]

As a minor point, you may want to have the picture analysis posted for a game that isn't running at the moment, as that could theoretically be considered discussing the game outside the thread.

[Malaprop]

I actually originally posted it in the game thread; there's deliberately nothing to my post here.

[jeep]

There are six softwares that I know of:
1. Mith's probability calculator, written in C
2. Antrax's random game runner that iterates a game many times making random choices... written in Pascal
3. JEEP's probablity calculator (written in C++ and Perl, but I consider them both the same program...)

All three agree with the numbers given on the theory page here. I have all three and can make them available with permission from Antrax and mith.

4. I have also written a more detailed program that is pretty slick, if I say so myself. It has some intellegence built into masons and mafia groups. It's still a work in progress. It's written in Perl. I'm trying to port it to Python, too.

5. I've recently taken the above, mixed it with the dissertation material I'm writing and am writing JEEPBot. When it's finished I want to have it play a game. It's a mix of PHP and Perl so far. I'd estimate that JEEPBot is 50% complete.

6. I have an analyzer for the set up with 12 player with n mafia and 12-n cops with known sanities.

-JEEP

[Talitha]

Ha! Playing a game with JEEPbot would be hilarious. Can't wait.

[Dasquian]

I'd like to write a program similar to Malaprop's, which doesn't do much active analysis but provides you with the tools to do your own. I'm thinking you'd enter anything noteworthy into it (votes, FOSes, defenses, bad logic, claims, etc) along with other relevant factors (posting time, post length, vehemence of post, etc), and then be able to get feedback about various players.

So you'd be able to get various indexes of how pairings of players have acted towards each other in the game, or see who's starting bandwagons and who's perenially following them, who's quick to jump on bandwagons, etc. I'd like to think that you'd get noted bonds between the mafia that would be easy to miss browsing the thread for clues. Basically it'd be Malaprop's program but with some extra calculations with the info it provides

Of course like any logical analysis tool it'd be less useful the less logically the mafia are playing but, well, that's the game

[PolarBoy]

I myself have been working on and off on a metagame helper tool. It's hard to describe exactly what it does, seeing as it's only in the conceptual stages, but I think it'll help with my metagame once I get it up and running.