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Trash Coliseum Update 3 The Audience Track

The Bored side of the Audience!

One of the interesting mechanics I created to prevent the game from getting too slow, or without action happening is the Audience Track Mechanic.
Sometimes in matches with 2-3 players, its tough to land adjacent or next to someone in order to battle them for the first few rounds. So what happens if people aren't fighting each other to death?

THE AUDIENCE GETS MAD!

They want to see blood and guts spread on the battlefield! During every players turn, if that player does not initiate an attack, the audience will start to lower in enthusiasm. How? There is a bar with levels starting in Neutral, and can go up to Excited or lower to Bored! If a player bores the crowd, the track marker will move to the Bored side, resulting in a punishment! They will throw Bananas at the exact space as your minimum moving range, which will deal significant damage if you land on it. The audience will call on Rat Gladiators and spawn them on the board to take out any wimpy fighter off the match! But if the audience gets REALLY bored...
The audience will demand they release Fangs... a vicious dog that is THOUGH to kill! It is the ultimate punishment for boring the crowd.
On the other side if you declare attacks, and succeed doing damage, the crowd will get excited and move to the Excited side. In the Excited side, the rewards keep coming from the Audience, they will heal you, throw useful items at you and eventually, the last player who maxes out the Excitement gets a special secret weapon to get an advantage in the fight!

This has been a really cool mechanic that has made my friends and family have some crazy fights over Audience control! Someone might have a reason to bore the Audience as their items help them survive and will do anything possible to send out the Rat Gladiators, it puts out a desperate fight for survival, as you never know which way the Audience Track is gonna move to with every players turn! And if all the players are doing bad, it PUNISHES them for being boring, it sends out twists and turns. It helps players who are doing bad and maybe are running low on HP or have bad items, if the Audience is in the Excited side, they can hit someone and get rewarded with some HP or a new item!

(Im new to forums and Id love to share more images in one post... Does anyone know how to be able to do that?)

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