Theme Game Ideas: Treasure Hunting?!

[Wake1]

So, I like making Mafia games.

I want to make a Mafia game, but also include a new system. You know that one Kirby SNES game where you're hunting for different treasures, and they each have their own value?

I'd like to make a large theme game where the player teams have to look for and find each treasure (I have a tiny IMG of each of the 50(?) treasures). The problem is trying to format it to "flow" with the idea of searching for treasure. I don't have too many options, but I do have PTs. For example I could give each team/player a Night action to hunt for treasure, have them pick and area, and then have them pick between 3-10 areas to search in (PTs). Then they could either just take the treasure, have to solve a puzzle, or, if another player or more target the same treasure they can compete for it. Still working on that.

Thing is, I don't know if I want Scum teams, multiple Town-aligned treasure-hunting teams, or both. I'm worried if the focus is too much on hunting treasure there won't be enough focus on hunting Scum. I could give Scum and maybe some Townies the ability to steal treasure, and then make other roles based around searching for treasure, etc.

I'd like to hear your ideas.

[chennisden]

Alternatively: Have town treasure guardians and scum are trying to find it. Finding it gives scum, oh I dunno, some kills or whatever. Or invest immunity for X nights or whatever.

Definitely has to be a large theme.

Make sure the locations are memorable too, don't just have a grid and say "Oh, you want to search 5C??"

[popsofctown]

It sounds pretty perpendicular to mafia, have you considered doing large social games? They do stuff like this a lot as I understand.