This idea was part of the 2025 game jam ideas project.
Cocktail party
Jackbox style game, a central screen that everyone can see and each player uses their cell phone as their input device.
The main screen shows a masquerade party. Everyone is wearing masks that elongate their noses. Think "Eyes Wide Shut". This is a single room with 20 or so people. Cartoon style of "Clue".
Cocktail party
On your phone you can cycle through the people at the party and engage them in a conversation (When you engage with them, your player on the main screen walks up to them). Each NPC has a different dialog tree and is different depending on who talks to them first. As you talk with them their dialog shows up on your screen in text. You can click any of the words in the dialog box to add these words to your list of words. You can have a max of 15 words, you can drop old words if you find better ones. You can respond to the NPCs dialog with one of three choices. The choices that you selected in the dialogs affect the rest of the game. Only one response per NPC.
As you talk to them, you will learn things about each NPCs preferences, likes vs dislikes, and the general vibe of the party.
After everyone has talked to a minimum of 5 people and collected 15 words from the NPC's dialogs. The ceremony starts.
The ceremony
The main organizers ring the gong and everyone collects in the main hall.
In real time, all players use the words that they have collected to come up with a "magnetic poetry" style description of what indecent act (Fetish) they want to perform. As the words are selected, it shows above your player's image on the main screen.
You can only build upon your description, you can't replace words after they have been played.
Based on the NPC preference, and how you talked to them in the cocktail party, they gather around the players that have impressed them the most or have the words that they want. (Choosing teams).
If you are too slow, the NPCs will collect around the other players before you get a chance to entice them.
If you choose words or build a story (Strange Fetish) that the NPCs are not interested in they will go to the other players.
The player with the most NPCs around them wins.
Give out a special prize for the story that only entices exactly one other NPC (You found your soul mate, you sick fuck)
Short version: Talk to NPCs, Use "magnetic poetry" to build a strange fetish, entice the most NPCs to make the most popular orgy. Social game.