Who Inked Me? playtest

About Who Inked Me?

Drink. Pass out. Get inked. Guess who did it.

The Sumo Association forbids tattoos. The yakuza on TV have gorgeous ones. So a few wrestlers sit down in the dojo with a bottle of sake...

Before he drinks, the next sleeper says what tattoo he wants ("a roaring tiger head", "a koi leaping through the waves"...). Then he falls asleep in the middle of the tatami, and everyone else grabs a tattoo machine and draws it on his sleeping body. Most of them can't draw.

How a round goes

• The auction. Shake cards come up one at a time and the price keeps falling. The prize pot takes the money. Use a card later to shake the sleeper's dream and everyone who is still drawing.
• The sleeper dreams. Trace a drunken dream with your needle without slipping off the line. Finish it and you wake up silently. Nobody is told.
• The others draw. Lean in with a stencil marker, then a liner and a shader in ten ink colors. Keep an eye on his face. Is he still asleep?
• He might be watching. Awake, he can quietly look around on a neck that stretches, or shut his eyes and pretend he's still out.
• The tour. He moves the camera and everyone looks at each piece together. The game scores how well each piece matches the theme.
• The accusation. The game picks the piece that looks least like the theme, unless he plays his catch card and picks one himself. He points at a face. Right: he tattoos that piece onto its artist, and the artist drinks next. Wrong: it stays on him, and he drinks again.
• Two cups in a row and you're out. A match lasts four rounds at most. When someone goes down, the prize pot goes to everyone else by their points.

Features

• Online party game for 4–6 players. Invite friends with a 4-letter room code, or meet strangers at a festival.
• Shrine festival lobbies for up to 40 players, opened by players: wander around in a mask or show your face, sit down at a sake stall, toast, and head into a room together.
• Your face on a big sumo body: upload a selfie once. It is processed on your own PC and becomes your wrestler's face. You can also play with the creator's face.
• Shake cards: win them at the auction, then shake the dream and the hands of everyone still drawing.
• 64 classic tattoo themes: tigers, dragons, koi, swallows, anchors, skulls and more.
• Your skin keeps the score: every tattoo that stays on you is permanent and follows you from match to match.
• Every match starts with a stake of in-game money. It can't be bought with real money or cashed out.
• Voice chat with everyone in the room.
• 13 languages.

Content note

Players draw freely on each other's characters, and drawings are not moderated. Faces made from selfies are visible to the other players in your room; in the festival lobby your face is only shown if you choose to, otherwise you wear a festival mask. Voice chat is available in rooms and in the festival, where you can hear players near you. Your microphone stays off until you agree to turn it on. Characters wear a traditional sumo loincloth.

From the game's Steam page.