So some ideas for this rattled around in my head and won't really stop until I put them down. I think this is a neat concept that could be fun and wouldn't really have any problems with the con if handled correctly. I have a few ideas if this remains just for fun or if we want to try and make something with a scoring system and prizes. Could start planning for AC.

Just for Fun Ideas

Double-sided Badge – If you go the badge collection route, anyone who can be prey has a double sided badge. One side is their name and whatever sketch they can get someone to put on it of their character. The other side is their name and a stock image of a full belly. When a pred catches a prey and goes through the motions, the collect that prey’s badge and wear it backwards indicating who they caught. If you’re middle of the road and you get eaten, you’d probably surrender all collected badges to the pred that got you. Otherwise, if you don’t do badge collection, the prey simply flips the badge over for a while to indicate they’ve been recently eaten and are off the market.

Competitive Game Ideas

Game Commissioner – Set someone whose job is to tally up points at the end of each day (probably just do competitive on Fri. thru Sat.) and keep track of who’s playing in what general position. They’d be in a particular place at a particular time block at the end of each day to collect “menus” (explained below) from all the preds playing in the game so that points can be recorded and hand out the fresh menu for the next day.

Scoring – Register as Pred, Prey, or Both essentially. Each character that can be pred (regardless of if they can also be prey) is given a simple paper before each day’s competition, or they can just have the file to print out before the con. This will simply say (Pred Name)’s Menu. Each character that can be prey is given a label sheet (again, they could just have a few to print out before the con or just have to make labels of a particular size if they want to play) with their name, maybe an icon of the character or an image of a gut bulge.
When a pred character catches a prey and completes the transaction, they get one of that prey’s labels to stick in their Menu, trying to fill it out. At the end of the day, the Commissioner tallies both how many preys a pred caught and how many times each prey was caught and eaten. Only unique interactions count towards score. For example, I can’t just eat the same prey over and over throughout the day and get extra points. Or if someone eats me on Friday, neither of us can get a Pred point or a Tasty point (being eaten) for the same interaction on Sat.

Winners – There would be three to four categories of winners in this model:

Apex Predator – The Pred with the most unique meals filling out their Menus who managed to gorge him- or herself on almost every prey available.

Tastiest Morsel – The Prey eaten by the most unique preds throughout the competition who wound up desired on almost every Menu

Most Varied Someone registered Both that has the most unique interactions combining both being Pred and Prey

Survival Instinct – The Prey to wind up on the least menus by ducking predators and not getting caught.

Prizes – We could just have prizes be bragging rights at the Sunday vore dinner at Buca. Or if a few artists are willing to donate coupons for a single B+W character commission (or more if a few are feeling really generous). Those could be given on Sunday morning after the winners are announced, with the artist holding a slot for the winner on that day. That’s up to if anyone wants to donate.

So there are the ideas I had. Naturally if we do this, they’d need to be refined and worked around a little, but we have some time. It’s probably a little too convoluted, but I think it could be a lot of fun if we can get this organized and have enough people to play.

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