Taken from Call of Duty, a game called "Sticks and Stones".

People run around the arena and throw spears at each other. Every time you stick a person (has a natural chance to miss, say 50% of the time), you gain a point. You have unlimited spears with which you can throw at people and earn points. Everyone also has a rock in hand. If you throw the rock and hit someone, you steal half of that person's total points, and that person gets "bankrupt", where they lose ALL of their points and have to get them back. There isn't any killing, per say, just throwing stuff at each other. At the end of the match (which lasts, say, 5-10 minutes) the person with the most points wins! I can see this being played in any arena, and also be pretty easy to code.

Commands:

When you enter the arena, you're given a "magical spear" which, when thrown, magically reappears back into your inventory. You WIELD SPEAR to wield it, THROW SPEAR AT , where you throw the spear at the person, and you can chuck the spear at them up to two rooms away (miss chance increases with distance). When you throw the spear, whether you hit or not, it magically comes back into your inventory, and you must WIELD it again.

Alternatively, you have a "magical rock" in your inventory, which you can WIELD ROCK and THROW ROCK AT , same as with the spear. However, it doesn't come back to your inventory, so you must go to the room where you threw the rock and pick it up again. Once thrown, you cannot use the magical rock for, say, 30 seconds, to prevent people from constantly stealing each other's points.

Ideas?

No no no. Gun game where skillsets randomly change.

I like my idea better.

we played a game on campus called Humans Vs. Zombies.

For Lusternia's sake:

Mortals vs. Infected

Last man standing game mixed with a bit of tag:

Rules are simple. Last until you are the last surviving un-infected soul. Infected can tag you by being in your vincity or coughing on you (ranged attack). Mortals can either A) nuke the infected before they can infect OR B ) Run away.

Or another world game:

Catch me if you can

A random person is infected, but nobody knows it until they choose to OUTBREAK. Each person who is under the influence must tag another person in order to survive. Each person has a life span of 3 month, until they infect a target, then their lifespan is increased by another 3 months. The game will continue until there are no un-infected mortals remaining, or the infected have died off. Occasionally a cure in the shape of a bunny will run from one side of the basin to the other, and any infected may consume the bunny in order to be immortal, or a mortal can consume the bunny in order to have a resistance to sickness for a few days.

By the time it's coded, the current event will be a distant memory, and most of the people you see will be too young to remember it anyway, so that's not an obstacle.

Nah, that's the difference: something like this would be fun as an arena game, with a definite end and the choice about whether to join in and when. It's only when we're forced to spend a week avoiding contact with everyone, while doing endless, purposeless chores, and are thus precluded from doing anything fun, that it's a definitively bad idea.

I cant remember if I suggested this, but as a youngun in Avalon my favorite game was where you would become these "great warriors" of the past. Atilla the Hun, Alexander the Great, I dont remember the rest.... but everyone got a bow, a set amount of mana that couldnt be replenished, a small smattering of spells and i think a sword. And the 9 contestants would battle it out until they were the last person standing.

It could be done here, but with the Last Nine and

hmm. let me see if I can bring up a link of the game we had. It was at UMass Amherst, first time was around 1200 people playing. Makes you paranoid as especially when you have the track team playing as zombies. But then you also have very nice machinery to battle the zombies. socks, marshmellows, nerf guns.

Here is a video:
'16 days' HvZ documentary Fall 2008

and

HvZ Ithaca College

and
Sylvan Massacre

If we're taking games from other sources, perhaps FAT PRINCESS. Featuring Queen Maeve. Up to 6 community teams. Each team goes to either their archway (elemental plane, or the two commune archways). You have to carry maeve to your archway to absorb power. You can feed Maeve honeycakes to make her harder to move.

-FFA where if you die, you don't get kicked out. Every person you kill simply gets you points. I'm sure an arbitrary value can be assigned to each participant through level or might and only the killer gets credit. If it's too complicated, 1 kill = 1 pt. will do. Winner is who has the most points at the end. It's a standard rampage/bloodbath type of game other IRE's have, and we could use it too.

-King of the Hill game would be cool. Every x minutes, a room in the arena is designated as the hill, and a magical flag pops up somewhere in the arena. There will be x teams, so the point of the game is to get the flag and plant it at the hill room. Points get accrued over time by the team who planted the flag. Like wildnodes. If the flag gets uprooted though, have the flag repop somewhere random in the arena, not in the same room.

-Super OP item game - 2 sides: 1 side is the protector side, one side is the raider side. The protector side has 1 item wielded by a 'king' that's super OP and hits people really hard, enough to 1-3 shot anyone. Whoever's holding the item is under permanent aeon though. The point of the protectors is to keep this guy alive, while the raiders want to kill him. The protectors get points for as many seconds as the king is kept alive, the raiders get points for killing as many protectors -and- a huge bonus for killing the king. The moment the king dies, the raiders now become the protectors, etc.

-Construct conflict system in arena game form.

-A survivor type game would also be kind of cool. Have everyone enter the arena, disable all offensive actions. Then just have mobs spawn around the area, chasing everyone. The winner is the last man standing. Disabling all offensive actions should prevent players from death through laming/murder.

I'll try and make this Lusternia-ey in a bit.

*Can we also make it so dying in the arena doesn't cost you defs.